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Welcome to the latest GGLO news.
Forty projects were submitted for the Washington American Society of Landscape Architects 2012 Professional Awards, among the honored is Bertschi School's Living Science Wing with a Merit Award for landscape architectural design. Of the 40 projects entered, 13 landscape architecture and urban design projects in the Pacific Northwest were awarded.
Having won the 2012 What Makes It Green Award in April, this has been a rewarding month for Bertschi School and the Restorative Design Collective team. Congratulations to all!
The Restorative Design Collective team consists of the following members:
Owner:
Architectural Design:
Landscape Architecture:
Civil Engineering:
Geotechnical Engineering:
Structural Engineering:
Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing:
Sustainability Consultant:
Food Systems Consultant:
Public Relations Services:
Preconstruction/Construction Services:
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Bertschi School
KMD Architects
2020 Engineering
GeoEngineers
Quantum Consulting Engineers
Rushing
O’Brien and Company
Back To Nature Design LLC
Parsons Public Relations
Skanska
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Atria Valley View, an assisted living community located in the hills of Walnut Creek, CA, received LEED® Silver certification from the USGBC in April 2012. This certification marks the second award for the second year in a row that an Atria Senior Living project has received Silver certification, the first being Atria Tamalpais Creek in Novato, California.
Atria Valley View Senior Living has completed a full renovation the existing 2-story residential care facility with 125 apartments. The 2011 renovation work includes reconfiguration of some existing uses, expansion and remodeling of the central community areas, and comprehensive updates of the site and landscape features to enhance outdoor living. The existing building exteriors are updated to incorporate new windows, to remove an outdated mansard roofline, the repair of failing balconies, and new siding, trim, and masonry accents.
The design concept is a redevelopment of the existing site and building to be reminiscent of a Northern California Lodge. One of the primary design ideas is to create a strong indoor-outdoor connections. The primary characteristics of the building concept are the use of natural materials and the introduction of details rich with earth tone colors and textures. Fundamental to the design is the acknowledgement that Atria Valley View is a community for seniors and their families as well as the facility staff. To this end the design is welcoming, accessible and safe.
GGLO provided architectural, interior and landscape design services for Atria Valley View, as well as conducting LEED® administration. Achieving LEED Silver certification demonstrates Atria Senior Living’s commitment to the health and comfort of residents and staff. This latest accomplishment expands our large and rapidly growing list of projects that have achieved green building benchmarking standards, updated in December 2011, total combined unit count and gross building areas are summarized below:
Team Zoom, consisting of 10 GGLO staff members, entered their vision FINDING BALANCE into the Urban Intervention competition earlier this year and was selected among 16 other teams to be exhibited alongside the finalist and
commendation winners. Opening day is this Friday, May 11, in the lobby of Intiman Playhouse at Seattle Center open to the public this weekend through June 30.
"This design intervention envisions Seattle Center in 2062 as a hyper-productive, hyper-participatory, hyper-flexible, and hyper-aware environment—host to a new global entity: the Global Balance Lab (GBL), where public space becomes the proving ground for collaborative projects that rapidly advance and implement improvements in socio-economic equity and ecological resilience across scales and across boundaries from Wallingford to Brasilia."
For more information on Finding Balance and a preview of the other entries, click here.
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Team Zoom: Amanda Reed, David Cutler, Jaclynn Treat, Carissa Franks
Kiwon Suh, Mark Nichols, Courtney Hathaway, Lisa Lazar, Sarah Marshall, David Marshall |
To check out other festivities happening throughout this summer, click here.
California Park & Recreation Society recently awarded Colony Water Court Park in Anaheim, California an Excellence in Design Award in Park Planning.
The Water Court, part of the award winning park, was completed in 2010, and is a collaboration between site artists Haddad|Drugan and GGLO.
The Water Court is a portion of the one acre park, located within a newly developed area of Anaheim. Though not a spray park, the Water Court showcases water and encourages interaction with the various water elements of the park. The design team was inspired by on-site orange groves as well as by the historic irrigation map of Anaheim. This map is represented on the Water Court with colored concrete streets, fields, and irrigation lines that sometimes occur as water runnels, shallow pools or water sheet. Colony Park has a large play area for multiple age groups, an informal grassy play field area and picnic shelters to complement the Water Court.
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| Image Credit: Laura Haddad |
The award celebrates the achievements and the interdisciplinary teamwork required to meet the 2030 Challenge®.
"This represents both the most challenging and rewarding project that we have taken on to-date, and we are proud to be a part of something that is a catalyst for truly moving toward a restorative future," said Principal, Mark Sindell.
The Bertschi School Living Science building, located in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Neighborhood, is the first project in the world built to the Living Building Challenge (LBC) v2.0 standards, and the first urban project built to the standard. This elementary school wing, collaboratively designed with the students, follows LBC requirements that includes 20 Imperatives. The most important aspect of the project is that all the sustainable features are visible and functional for students to learn ecological concepts that can become intrinsic values for future generations.
As one juror stated, the project is 'causing a ripple effect in the Seattle community', showing that these types of high sustainable projects are possible.
The Restorative Design Collective team consists of the following members:
Architectural Design:
Landscape Architecture:
Civil Engineering:
Geotechnical Engineering:
Structural Engineering:
Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing:
Sustainability Consultant:
Food Systems Consultant:
Public Relations Services:
Preconstruction/Construction Services:
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KMD Architects
GGLO, Mark Sindell & Zack Thomas
2020 Engineering
GeoEngineers
Quantum Consulting Engineers
Rushing
O’Brien and Company
Back To Nature Design LLC
Parsons Public Relations
Skanska
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Click on the following links for more information:
If you missed this year's 2012 WASLA Conference: Changing Convention, held at the Lynnwood Convention Center on Thursday, March 29th, don't worry you can still catch two of the presentations online.
 Yesler Terrace Development: An Outdoor Stage for Daily Life (13 MB pdf)
The Seattle Housing Authority has embarked on an ambitious and exciting mission of creating a new mixed-income, mixed-use urban neighborhood at Yesler Terrace that is tailored to meet the needs, aspirations and lifestyles of Seattleites in the 21st Century. The development provides a unique opportunity to simultaneously promote social, economic, and environmental resiliency through design. The Master Plan lays out a vision for streets, walkways, open space and buildings that knit a community over the site’s steeply sloping 34 acres.
Collaboration: A Model of Integrated Design Delivering Sustainable Places for People in the 21st Century (6.5 MB pdf)
The design of our Built Environment in the 21st Century demands a collaborative, systems based approach to solve the evolving issues and complexities of our urban communities. A multi-disciplinary panel including Landscape Architect, Architect, and Interior Designer will present an integrated design process, refined over the past 10 years by GGLO, focused on placemaking and Design for the Human Experience.The panel will provide project examples that break the traditional model of ‘working in silo’s’ and leverage systems-based thinking, collaborative design, and cutting edge graphics to deliver projects that are sustainable, distinctive, and based on creating sustainable places for people. We will share ‘lessons learned’ and engage the audience in a dialogue centered on the expanding roles of landscape architects.
Click here for a list of other GGLO presentations and publications.
Atria Tamalpais Creek is a beautiful and modern in-city community that recently underwent a multi-million dollar renovation, completed in 2010. Situated within a larger landscape of vineyards and rolling hills, this LEED® Silver assisted living community provides the perfect balance of quality living and independence. Designed to support activty and comfort for residents, the facility offers a fitness center, a relaxing spa, an impressive theater room, and engaging programming for an active lifestyle. With over 115 welcoming and accessible residential units, Tamalpais Creek also creates strong indoor and outdoor connections, providing courtyards, terraces and indoor gathering places for the active senior.
Keep your eyes out for the upcoming publication, Design for Aging Review, 11th Edition, where more information and photographs of Tamalpais Creek will be showcased.
GGLO is celebrating the hard work and commitment of 11 esteemed employees. Each team member has made significant contributions to the accomplishments of the firm. GGLO’s expanding leadership signifies the firm’s growth, evolution and enhanced capacity to continue to positively shape the communities in which we work and live.
Beth strives to create and support strong communities in her practice. Beth’s clients appreciate her strong organization, communication, and design skills, which over the past 25 years, have allowed her to play a variety of roles in projects that shape communities. Retail, commercial, historic renovation, educational and multi-family projects are a few of the sectors in which she has worked and she welcomes the variation in design knowledge that each project type entails.
During her tenure at GGLO Beth has worked on University Village, The Cobb, Burien Town Square, Abri Hotel, Garfield Commons, and is currently working on UW/Children’s Workforce Housing. She recently served as a panelist at ULI Seattle’s Reinventing Northwest Retail, ULI Skagit County’s Revitalizing Aging Commercial Strips, Futurewise’s: TOC workshop and NAIOP’s Creating Value Through Renovation.
Mark joined GGLO in 2001 as a landscape architect with a desire to contribute to the urban fabric in which everyday people live, work and play. Today, Mark has gained over 15 years of professional experience in a variety of project types including urban infill housing, hospitality, public parks and open spaces. Mark is a member of the Restorative Design Collective, responsible for the greenest building on track to be the first certified Living Building in Washington state.
Mark has worked on a variety of award winning Parks, Town Centers, and Mixed-Use Communities throughout the Northwest. His focus on creating highly sustainable places for people through an integrated design process contributes to GGLO’s mission of ‘Design for the Human Experience’. Mark has been invited to speak the 2012 WASLA Conference on “A Model of Integrated Design - Delivering Sustainable Places for People in the 21st Century” and has previously spoken at two Living Future Conferences and the 2010 WASLA Conference.
David is vital part of GGLO's Urban Design and Planning team. He focuses on complex design projects that range in scale from buildings to districts – working with public-private partnerships, innovative development codes, mixed funding sources such Choice Neighborhoods, and community stakeholders to create places that are highly sustainable and cherished. David is Vice Chair of the Seattle Planning Commission and Co-Chair of the Seattle Light Rail Review Panel. He also serves on the board of the Seattle 2030 District.
Alicia is an Architect and passionate advocate for green building, with over 15 years of experience in sustainable design. As Director of Sustainability, she spearheads internal research initiatives and is the firm’s driving force for bringing integrated sustainable design solutions to client-driven projects. Alicia is an active member of Cascadia Green Building Council's Seattle Branch Steering Committee and also a lifetime member of the American Solar Energy Society.
Ted designs and manages community-based urban mixed-use projects, with particular focus in resolving complex environmental and entitlement considerations. He is involved in numerous environmental and community advocacy groups, serves on Seattle’s Central Waterfront Stakeholders Group and is Chair of Seattle’s Northwest Design Review Board.
Hal has been involved on a wide range of project types and sizes for both private and public clients. He is fluent in construction technology and detailing through involvement on complex, highly detailed projects. Hal is an active member of the SPACE at Magnuson board to which he brings his interests in adaptive re-use, art integration, and preservation of building heritage.
Amy's experience with multi-family, mixed-use, and rehabilitation projects encompasses the full spectrum of design development, from initial project concept through construction administration. Her passion is working with clients to realize the value of their properties and she takes great pride in helping to improve a neighborhood's fabric through quality development.
Lindsey has a broad understanding of the design process, a collaborative approach to design, and a passion for her work. She has experience in a variety of multi-family housing projects from affordable to market-rate, hotels, spas, conference facilities and corporate tenant improvement projects. As a member of GGLO’s Sustainable Design Group, Lindsey is dedicated to creating high quality, healthy indoor environments.
Kevin is inspired by the opportunity to design quality affordable housing for those who need it most. He has worked with a variety of public and private clients to create vibrant, affordable and sustainable communities. Along with designing affordable, efficient and quality housing, Kevin's other professional passion is Building Information Modeling and how it is changing the practice of architecture.
Tracy has been with GGLO for 14 years, and her strengths direct the HR discipline; from benefits administration to compliance, policy development to recruiting, firm wide communication and professional development, all facets of the HR spectrum are covered.
Barry joined GGLO in 2007, bringing over 15 years of Information Systems experience in a variety of settings as well as a Master’s Degree in Information Science. Barry enjoys collaboration with architects and designers to create knowledge and information systems that directly impact the firm's productivity.
The talented members join current principals, senior associates and associates as GGLO’s leaders in the unified mission of ‘design for the human experience’.
Check out Mark Sindell and Zack Thomas:
On the list is "the world's most sustainable buildings" - the Bertschi Science Wing. The first completed building in Washington state designed to meet the Living Building Challenge. The classroom gives students an active space for hands-on learning. To read more about the project, click here.
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| Bertschi Living Building Science Classroom |
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| Bertschi Living Building Science Classroom |
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Recently Avalon Walnut Creek, with the help of GGLO’s LEED Administration services, has achieved LEED certification.
GGLO worked with the client, AvalonBay Communities, on completing the process of obtaining certification and would like to congratulate AvalonBay Communities on their sustainable community.
The LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings.
For more information please contact our Director of Sustainability, Alicia Daniels Uhlig
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| Courtesy of Avalon Walnut Creek |
February's calendar is filling up fast with all the events GGLOers are planning to attend. Here is a list of our upcoming events:
February 15, 2012
ULI Seattle will be offering a workshop on the fundamentals and benefits of using an Integrative Design Process. GGLOers David Culter and Don Vehige will be there to hear speakers from the east coast share their take on this competitive advantage.
February 22, 2012
Speculating what is in store for Downtown Seattle's future, then you must not miss this event! bisnow is presenting "Seattle, Future of Downtown" event at The W Seattle on Wednesday morning. The list of speakers is impressive and this event should not be missed. Join Will Castillo, Tom Sheldon, Jerry McDevitt and Sean Canady as they hear seasoned downtown developers share their insight.
February 23, 2012
Industrial Designers Society of America's Northwest chapter (IDSA Northwest) is having their (free!) IN on IT event at GGLO's Space at the Steps from 5:30pm - 8:30pm to start a dialogue of joining creative forces. This is the first meeting so stay tuned and connect with IDSA if you're interested in future collaboration.
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| Image Provided by IDSANW |
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