November 6, 2002

Design Detailings: Allied Works wins NYC museum

Portland's Allied Works Architecture has been selected to design the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in New York. The project is a renovation in an existing building at 2 Columbus Circle.

In a high profile site at the southwest corner of Central Park, the museum will be 54,000 square feet. It is across the street from the mammoth AOL/Time Warner Center, currently under construction. Also on the short list were Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects of New York and Zaha Hadid of London.

A 12-person firm, Allied Works was also recently selected to design the 275,000-square-foot Seattle Art Museum at First and Union.

APA award for Berger Partnership

The Berger Partnership, a landscape architecture and site planning firm, recently received the American Planning Association Washington Chapter’s Physical Plans Honor Award for the South Renton Neighborhood Plan.

The city, in collaboration with The Berger Partnership, Marcia Gamble-Hadley, Real Vision and Mithun, created the plan as an economic development tool to revitalize an area of town.

APA judges said they were impressed by "the thorough integration of land use regulations, cost/market research, and detailed designs for the city’s private and public improvements."

The Berger Partnership’s projects include designs for Island Wood (formerly known as the Puget Sound Environmental Learning Center), Sand Point Magnuson Park, Lincoln Reservoir Park, Western Washington University and Seattle University.

Henry exhibit is 'Out of Site'

A preview party will be held at 8 p.m. Friday for the Henry Art Gallery's new architecture exhibit "Out of Site." It is a group exhibition organized by New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibit features fictional architectural spaces and topographies that reflect how digital technology, virtual reality, urban and suburban growth, and global expansion have impacted contemporary culture.

"Out of Site" includes cutting-edge works by nationally emerging artists, with works on paper, painting, digital photography, projection, sculpture and site-specific installation. Artists include Haluk Akakce; Ricci Albenda; Aziz + Cucher; Nina Bovasso; Stephen Hendee; Cannon Hudson; Craig Kalpakjian; Patrick Meagher; Julie Mehretu; Matthew Northridge; and Sven Pahlsson. It includes a new commission by Seattle artist Victoria Haven.

The gallery is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursdays. It is closed Mondays, Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year’s Day. Admission is $6 general. For information, call (206) 543-2280, or go to henryart.org. The exhibit runs through Feb. 2.

ASCE celebrates 150 years

The Seattle Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers invites members and interested civil engineers to the society's 150th anniversary celebration on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at the Museum of History and Industry, 2700 24th Ave.

Guests can view exhibits of Seattle’s rich engineering history and network with other ASCE members, local agency heads and legislators. Exhibits on display will include MOHAI’s Metropolis 150, Seattle section history and heritage display, infrastructure display, corporate histories and local award winners.

Social hour begins at 6 p.m., and the program begins at 7. Cost is $25. The reservation line is (206) 926-0482, or e-mail reservations to adam.slivers@members.asce.org. The reservation deadline is Friday. For information, contact Brook Maples at (206) 926-0490 or brookm@kpff.com.

Japanese garden expert here Nov. 9

The Puget Sounds Japanese Garden Society and Department of Landscape Architecture at University of Washington sponsor a presentation from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday on Japanese-style gardens of the West Coast. The event will be held at Gould Hall, room 322.

Kendall Brown, who holds a Ph.D. from Yale in art history, will speak. Brown has published monographs on 16th century Japanese printing and on early 20th century Japanese prints.

Since 1890, Japanese-style gardens have been created on the West Coast in such large numbers that they have become an integral part of the region’s landscape and culture. Brown has explored their significance, presenting them as being distinctively North American rather imitations of authentic gardens in Japan. Often designed by first generation Japanese immigrants as a way of both maintaining ties to their homeland and assimilating into their new country, gardens offer a dual reflection of North American attitudes toward Japan and the complex role of Japanese culture before, during and after World War II.

For tickets, send check payable to Kobayashi & Associates, 1811 Queen Anne N. Suite 200, Seattle, WA. 98109, Cost is $10. For information, contact Koichi Kobayashi, (206) 286 9644, or e-mail koichik@qwest.net.

How is your marketing database?

Do you have a marketing infrastructure? Does it work well for your firm? A marketing database is the backbone for many firms. On Thursday, Nov. 14, Jan Flesher of Flesher Database Consulting of Seattle will talk about types of databases and how to use them efficiently at the October program and luncheon meeting of Marketing Associates of Spokane.

The meeting will be at noon at the WestCoast River Inn, 700 N. Division St., Spokane. The cost is $15 for MAS members and $25 for non-members. The reservation deadline is Nov. 11. For membership information or to make a reservation, contact MAS vice president David Dowers at (509) 536-3853 or see the Web site at www.maspokane.org.