August 4, 2004

Design Detailings: OSKA selected ‘Best of Best'

Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects was on the "Best of the Best" list in the June issue of the upscale publication The Robb Report, and was the only architectural firm to make the list. The article featured Tom Kundig's National AIA award-winning Chicken Point cabin in northern Idaho, and a residence designed by Jim Olson in California.

Departures magazine, American Express' luxury publication, also included the firm in a group of architects for residential design in their May/June issue.

Kundig will speak at Washington, D.C.'s National Building Museum today, for the opening of the exhibition "Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete." He will be speaking about the Mission Hill Winery in British Columbia, which is featured in the exhibition.

ZZA's Garcia earns P.E. license

Zipper Zeman Associates announced Edwardo A. Garcia obtained his professional engineering license in the state of Washington. Garcia has over nine years of geotechnical engineering, material testing and construction monitoring experience in Washington and Arizona.

He has done subsurface explorations and construction monitoring for commercial, residential and health care facilities. Zipper Zeman provides geotechnical engineering, environmental consulting, and engineering geology services. Its offices are in Lynnwood, Seattle, and Tacoma.

BCRA designer LEED accredited

Architects BCRA announced Jennifer Weddermann-Hay has completed the LEED accreditation examination. BCRA now has two LEED-certified architects. Weddermann-Hay joins BCRA's "Green Team," the firm's in-house sustainable design specialists.

A 1997 graduate of Southern California Institute of Architecture's master's program, Weddermann-Hay has architectural design experience, as well as a background in furniture design and metalwork. She is working on the Point Defiance Kids Zone team for BCRA.

Architects BCRA is a design and engineering firm. Recent projects include Albers Mill and the Point Defiance Zoo amphitheater.