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September 28, 2022
The AIA Washington Council hosted its 2022 Civic Design Awards at Graypants Studio in Seattle last week. These awards recognize and celebrate design excellence in publicly funded projects in Washington state from the last two years.
A total of 13 projects were recognized. Two received Honor Awards, the top prize; four were recognized with a Merit Award; three got Citation Awards; and four received an Honorable Mention.
Mahlum Architects' Alma Clark Glass Hall and EHDD Architecture's Juanita Beach Park Bathhouse took home the top awards of the evening. The 117,340-square-foot Alma Clark Glass Hall is an inclusive residential community at Western Washington University. The multistate jury praised the project “for its solution to a challenging site, its beautiful, warm timber interiors and simple exterior as well as its commitment to accessibility, diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability.”
The much smaller 4,870-square-foot Juanita Beach Park Bathhouse also utilizes warm wood and simple materials to bring new life to the busiest waterfront park in the Kirkland Parks and Community Services park system. Juror Janet Tam noted how the project had a “beautiful-wonderful use of materials particularly CLT, creating space between structures and iconic shapes and forms.”
The bathhouse project, developed by Kirkland Parks and Community Services, replaced an existing building constructed in 1960. The design-team looked to the site's rich logging and shingle mill history to inspire and inform the building and pavilions. Tam continued, “(The) rhythm of the repetitive forms is very simple but artistic and human scaled; seems to really have responded to the community and users.”
The other winners were:
MERIT AWARDS
Project: International Arrivals Facility at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
Owner: Port of Seattle
Architect: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Location: Seattle
Project: The HIVE
Owner: Spokane Public Library/Spokane Public Schools
Architect: Integrus Architecture
Location: Spokane
Project: Wing Luke Elementary School
Owner: Seattle Public Schools
Architect: NAC Architecture
Location: Seattle
Project: Parrington Hall
Owner: University of Washington
Architect: Integrus Architecture
Location: Seattle
CITATION AWARDS
Project: John Lewis Memorial Bridge
Owner: City of Seattle
Architect: VIA–A Perkins Eastman Studio
Location: Seattle
Project: W.W. Seymour Conservatory
Owner: Metro Parks Tacoma
Architect: SHKS Architects
Location: Tacoma
Project: Spokane Community College Main Building renovation and addition
Owner: Community Colleges of Spokane
Architect: NAC Architecture
Location: Spokane
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Project: The Quarry
Owner: Spokane Conservation District
Architect: Integrus Architecture
Location: Spokane Valley
Project: Highline High School
Owner: Highline Public Schools
Architect: Bassetti Architects
Location: Burien
Project: Bertha Pitts Campbell Place
Owner: Plymouth Housing
Architect: SMR Architects
Location: Seattle
Project: Tukwila Fire Station 51
Owner: City of Tukwila, Public Works Department
Architect: Weinstein A+U
Location: Tukwila
The awards were the first in-person civil awards program to be held since 2019 and were combined with the Northwest and Pacific AIA Honors and Awards Program.