Award of Merit

Submitting Firm: Miller/Hull

Design Team: Robert Hull FAIA, Ron Rochon, Steve Southerland, Scott Wolf AIA, Margaret Sprug, Pat Byrne, Molly Cooper, Ruth Coates, Kurt Stolle, Eric Walter, Mark Adams, Doug Mikko, Claudine Manio

Location: 220 Harrison Street/Building 65, Seattle Center, Seattle

Owner/Client: City of Seattle, Seattle Center

Consultants: AKB Engineers, civil & structural; Site Workshop, landscape; The Greenbusch Group, mechanical; Sparling, electrical; Shannon & Wilson, geotechnical

General Contractor: Howard S. Wright Construction Co.

Photography: Steven Keating

Jury Comments: "This transformational project provides a new below-grade pavilion that opens a series of processional outdoor spaces at the heart of a community center. By its placement and form, it enlivens the spaces, structures, and activities that surround it. Internally, it rigorously yet modestly asserts a design language, giving meaning and credibility to details yet standing back and giving center stage to the people and activities it contains. Thus it embodies civic responsibility in design, from site plan to structural detail."