December 23, 2020

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol

Umana

Geter

Cox

Donovan

Seattle-based landscape architecture firm Gustafson Guthrie Nichol promoted Chihiro Shinohara Donovan to senior associate, Azzurra Cox and Rikerrious Geter to associate and Wolfgang Umana to office manager. Donovan has a background in architecture, landscape architecture and environmental design. She has worked on the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., Dongtan Park in Seoul, South Korea, and Spring District parks in Bellevue. She is the project designer on India Basin Shoreline Park in San Francisco. Cox loves cities and has a commitment to public space. She is on the design team and leading the public engagement for the India Basin project. She also is an urban design commissioner on the Seattle Design Commission. Geter examines and promotes how public space can best serve impoverished areas to encourage equitable, healthy and sustainable communities. He recently participated in engaging the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco to help them visualize their India Basin Shoreline Park. His current projects include West Main in Bellevue and Mercer Blocks in Seattle, where he brings an emphasis to sustainability. Umana has experience in social media, communications, outreach and technical services. He recently transformed the Washington, D.C., office space to accommodate a growing number of designers and continually advances GGN's technology infrastructure with cutting-edge hardware and software. All the others work in the Seattle office.