April 28, 2004

Design Detailings: Girvin designs SBRI gallery

Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, a non-profit that researches global infectious diseases, recently moved to South Lake Union. Strategic branding and design firm Girvin designed the institute's new Bioquest Science Gallery.

Conceived as a "living room for the life sciences," the gallery fronts Westlake Avenue and serves as a window into the science the institute conducts.

The gallery is intended to provide insight on who the scientists are and the nature of the research they are conducting. Some of the displays are blue nitrile gloves, lab coats and safety glasses.

Girvin has offices in Seattle and New York, and partnerships in Japan and France. Its clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies and include include Roche, Eden Bioscience, Pfizer, Evergreen Hospital and Duke University's Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy.

Meeting on Overlake Hospital

Overlake Hospital will partner with Group Health to expand the hospital and build a new Group Health Speciality Center. The project is expected to bring 1,000 new jobs and $300 million in new construction to Bellevue, and also bring Overlake Hospital up to a Level 2 trauma care center. Work is set to be complete by 2007.

A public meeting is scheduled for May 25. Partners will describe the venture, and talk about how it could boost Bellevue's economy and improve health care on the Eastside.

The meeting will take place from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at Harbor Club, Rainier Plaza, at 777 108th Ave. N.E., Suite 2500 in Bellevue. Cost is $25 for members and $30 for non-members.

Register by May 18 by calling (425) 453-1223.

South Park library design meeting

Seattle Public Library will host a public meeting with Johnston Architects to review design of the $2.5 million South Park Branch Library, which is to be built at the southeast corner of South Cloverdale Street and Eighth Avenue South.

Architects will explain the design for the 5,000-square-foot branch and take questions and comments. A Spanish interpreter will be present.

The project is one part of the $196.4 million "Libraries for All" bond measure, which voters approved in order to meet library needs in underserved areas of Seattle.

Completed projects to date include branches at Capitol Hill, Delridge, Green Lake, New Holly, Rainier Beach, Wallingford and West Seattle. The Central Library will open May 23.

Ballard, Beacon Hill, Columbia, Greenwood, High Point, Lake City and North East all have library branches in the construction phase. For more information, contact library project manager Frank Coulter at (206) 615-1621 or visit www.spl.org.

Olson Sundberg exhibit through May 2

"Selected Work: 1997-Now," an exhibit featuring the work of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, will be on display until May 2 at the Frieze Room of Architecture Hall at the University of Washington campus in Seattle.

On display are 12 projects, including a museum, winery, cathedral and Habitat for Humanity development. There will be photographs, models, sketches, construction document drawings and a slide presentation.