October 12, 2005

Design Detailings: Kundig, Gustafson win Smithsonian awards

The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum gave Tom Kundig of Seattle's Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen an architecture design award. Kathryn Gustafson, a partner in Seattle firm Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, won a landscape design award.

They will be presented with the awards Oct. 20 at an event in New York chaired by architect Richard Meier.

ABKJ moves Seattle office

The Seattle civil and structural engineering firm Andersen Bjornstad Kane Jacobs is moving to a different floor in the Bank of America Fifth Avenue Plaza.

Starting in November, the company's address will be 800 Fifth Ave., Suite 2500, Seattle 98104. Phone and fax numbers will remain the same: telephone (206) 340-2255, fax (206) 340-2266.

Rolluda designs mosque for Olympia

Seattle-based Rolluda Architects recently finished designing a Muslim mosque in Olympia. The 10,500-square-foot mosque, called Masjid Al-Nur, will replace a temporary community center on a 10-acre site that has 40 single-family homes.

The mosque will serve a group of Cambodian people who have lived in Olympia since the early 1980s. Others working on the project include AHBL, The Greenbusch Group, Cierra Electrical Group, Jeffrey B. Glander & Associates, Springline Design and J B Iringan Consulting.

Beck Studio project featured in magazine

A 500-square-foot vacation cabin designed by Seattle residential architecture firm Beck Studio is featured in the September/October issue of Western Interiors and Design magazine.

The cabin, called Rainier Pavilion, is just outside Mount Rainier National Park.

Transparent materials let in the forested site's soft light. Philip Beck, the architect, has also worked on an ecolodge in Nepal and other projects in Colorado and Tibet.

Building enclosure council is launched

The new Seattle Building Enclosure Council will hold its first meeting Oct. 20 at the Bellevue Public Library at 5 p.m. Panelists will be Dan Heffernan, a lawyer who deals with construction defect litigation, and Bellevue building official Gregg Schrader.

They will talk about the new Engrossed House Bill 1848 and what it will mean for people who design, inspect and do contracting work. The Seattle Building Enclosure Council is made up of architects, engineers, contractors and manufacturers. For membership information, see http://www.seabec.org.