September 20, 2006
KMD Architects
KMD Architects announced several senior design and management promotions and new staff.
Christopher Rubright has been promoted to director of health care design. Rubright's recent work includes hospitals in Seattle, Mount Vernon and Bremerton, as well as international work.
Sean Huang, a KMD board member and architect who has been active in Washington projects, has relocated full-time to Seattle from company headquarters in San Francisco. He is the firm's second corporate director and first board member to be in Seattle. Huang's work includes design for Seattle and San Francisco hospitals, and the Ford Field football stadium in Detroit. Senior associate
L.T. Chen is a senior project designer. Chen was lead designer of KMD's Jie Fang News building under construction in Shanghai and other projects in Asia and the United States. The Jie Fang tower was named Office Building of the Future by the leading international property association, MIPIM. Huang will co-lead KMD's 14-person office in Seattle, with
Larry Parrett. The office also recently won two science facilities totaling 420,000 square feet in Richland; a master plan, site analysis and concept design for a new Snohomish County justice center in Everett; and a 20,000-square-foot retrofit design for the Evergreen Neurological Institute in Kirkland.