June 22, 2005
Design Detailings: Morss Medical wins 2 projects
Two medical facilities recently picked Bainbridge Island firm Morss Medical Architecture to design and update facilities.
The company will design and build a 10,000-square-foot, free-standing building for Bellingham OB/GYN on Squalicum Way. This set to open in the fourth quarter of 2006 and will house five physicians.
Morss will also work on three Kitsap County projects for Bremerton-based Olympic Peninsula Kidney Centers: a new 5,000-square-foot facility planned for Poulsbo, new interiors for a facility in Bremerton, and updates to a Port Orchard facility. They will be designed to bring in as much natural light as possible.
Morss Medical has 30 years of medical architecture experience.
Parametrix planner national APA head
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Siegel oversees long-range planning and growth management projects for Parametrix as a planning and communications manager. He has been in planning and public works agencies for 28 years.
Models sought for SAF exhibit
Seattle Architecture Foundation is calling for entries for its yearly architectural model exhibition. Physical models, 3D computer images or digital animations will be accepted.
The "Ideas in Form 8" exhibit will take place Aug. 4-21 and is sponsored by Swensen Say Faget and Unico. Entry fee for the first project is $50 for firms, $25 for sole practitioners or free for students. Deadline for entries is July 1. For more information call (206) 667-9184.
Grace Garland wins SDA awards
Grace Garland of Huckell/Weinman Associates recently won three national awards for her work on the Society for Design Administration's newsletter and local Web site, http://www.sda-seattle.com.
Garland is the office manager for Huckell/Weinman Associates, a Kirkland-based environmental and economics planning firm.
Kundig finalist for Cooper-Hewitt award
Tom Kundig, a partner in Seattle-based architecture firm Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, was recently named a finalist in a design competition sponsored by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
Other finaliststs in the architecture design category were New York's Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, and Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock. Nominations came from a committee of 800 designers, educators, journalists and corporate representatives from every state.
For more information see www.nationaldesignawards.org.
New officers at Hammond Collier
Hammond Collier Wade Livingstone, a civil engineering firm, has elected new officers and members to its board of directors. The newly elected officers are: Robin Nelson as president, Jorge Garcia asvVice president and treasurer, Bill Reynolds as vice president and secretary, Larry Cordes as vice president, Peter Weber as chairman of the board, Larry Riegert and John Tilley as board members and Bruce Livingstone as honorary board member. Hammond Collier has offices in Seattle, Lakewood, Wenatchee, Omak and Winthrop.
Fong speaks today on sustainability
Denise Fong, a principal at Candela, will speak about sustainability in Denmark, Sweden, Germany and China at the Lighting Design Lab at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
The presentation will include attitudes toward lighting and also touch on electrical generation, waste management, water issues and other green strategies.
Fong writes a regular column on sustainability issues for LD+A Magazine and has been honored with design awards for her creative lighting applications for projects such as the ACT Theatre and Pacific Science Center's IMAX Theater addition. She is a former Lighting Specialist at the Lighting Design Lab. For information, call (206) 325-9711, Ext. 0.