News
Education will play a key role in LOTT's new Olympia facility
The LOTT Alliance in Olympia breaks ground February 2nd, 2009 on an expansion project that is the first piece of redeveloping the city's East Bay District. The project is targeting LEED platinum and will include a cogeneration system to capture waste heat. Read more at the DJC, subscription required.
District officials thrilled by library design
It’s not always best to judge a book by its cover. But an exterior design for Clark County’s new flagship library has Fort Vancouver Regional Library District officials excited for the future.
Read more at the Columbian.com
Miller | Hull winners at the 2008 AIA Honor Awards for Washington Architecture!
Kitsap County Admin Building won a Merit Award and Bumper Crop a Citation.
Kitsap County Admin Building was also awarded an Honor Award at the 2008 AIA Northwest & Pacific Region Design Awards. and Norman Strong was awarded the 2008 Medal of Honor!
Design Excellence Scholarship - Washington State University
The Miller| Hull Design Excellence Scholarship is awarded to Washington State University School of Architecture and Construction Management first year graduate students in the professional Master of Architecture program. Further information about this Scholarship can be found here.
Recent Happenings
UW's new Conibear Shellhouse is named September 2008 AIA Project of the Month.156 West Superior and Art + Architecture Building at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor receive the 2008 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.
Miller|Hull's Norm Strong was recognized at the Third Annual Better Bricks Award ceremony with the 2007 Advocate award. The BetterBricks Awards recognize architects, engineers, developers, building owners, building operators, service providers, facility managers, emerging leaders or other building professionals for their support, use and design of sustainable, high performance, commercial buildings with a special emphasis on energy efficiency in the Northwest. BetterBricks winners will be awarded in multiple categories, focusing on the people behind the best projects in the Northwest.
156 West Superior
ECONET - concept rendering
156 West Superior receives an Award of Merit in the 2007 AIA Regional Design Awards.
Architectural Record's Building Types Study - Multifamily Housing Miller/Hull Architects’ light steel-and-glass mid-rise tower (156 West Superior) showcases an innovative exposed structural system.
By Blair Kamin
The Power to NET ZERO Columbia Springs Life Science Center, to break ground next year, will try to capture power at every turn...
The Tillamook Forest Center will be receiving the Governor's Tourism Achievement Award this week during the annual conference in Sunriver. The Gene Leo Memorial Award recognizes outstanding achievements in tourism-related efforts or attractions that specifically focus on the state's natural resources or outdoor recreation.
The AIA has announced the recipients of the 2007 Housing Awards. The Housing Awards program, now in its seventh year, recognizes the best in housing design and promotes the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit, and a valuable national resource. 156 West Superior - MultiFamily Category award!
Walking the Talk at Work:
A Seattle Firm Tries Green Tags
Miller|Hull Partnership Offsets CO2 Emissions
Starting in August 2006, Miller|Hull entered into a three-year contract with the Bonneville Environmental Foundation to purchase Green Tags to support alternative energy initiatives that offset the carbon dioxide emissions produced by their business practices. The full article is available (here) on the AIArchitect website. Additional information on Green Tags is available (here) at GreenTagUSA.org
Notes on the built environment
Sliver me timbers: What’s the skinny on narrow buildings?
"..the sliver at 156 West Superior Street (between Wells St and LaSalle Blvd, Chicago, Ill); in fact, it’s one of the most dynamic residential buildings to appear on the skyline in the past few years." -Philip Berger Time Out Chicago / Issue 101: February 1–7, 2007
New Projects
ECONET Miller|Hull, along with the Page Kirkland Group acting as project manager, are finishing up the first phase of a brief, three-phase scope which includes programming, site planning and concept design for a ECONET, Inc.’s 37-acre Headquarters in Lacey, WA. Miller|Hull will be performing the design of the master plan, a 100,000sf Administration building intended for about 400 people, and a cafeteria and auditorium/recording studio for approximately 500 people. Also on the site – to be developed in later phases, will be a Research/Development (lab) building, guest lodge and Wellness Institute (spa), daycare facility, and potentially a manufacturing and warehouse/distribution facility.ECONET, Inc. is a group of world-wide companies which focuses on the production of natural medicines, primarily the development of a line of products based on the aloe plant, but generally on herbal or natural product lines that promote well being for the entire body. They also produce mass quantities of similar plant products for use in other companies’ line of products, including drinks, analgesics, etc. They are trying to be poised to be the world leader in their market within a 5-year time frame.
The Lacey campus would be one of two such facilities worldwide – the other being in Korea, the home of Econet’s owner.
TAF In collaboration with Public Architecture of San Francisco, Miller|Hull is designing an administration and technology drop-in center for the Technology Access Foundation (TAF). TAF is a non-profit foundation with a mission “to prepare underserved students of color for success in a technology-driven world by providing technology and life skills training”.
The project consists of a 26,000 gsf administration and technology drop-in center to be located in the White Center neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The site is in the Northeast corner of the Lakewood Park, a King County Park, and is conveniently bordered by multi-family and single family residences with easy access on foot, by bicycle, or bus. The facility will provide education outreach for k-12 children and act as a community center to the surrounding neighborhood. The building design and form will respond to this community aspect as well as environmental conditions. Both the client and the design team are striving to create an efficient and sustainable building, taking cues from technology as well as the local climate and environment.
TAF was inspired by the Scrap House designed and built by Public Architecture and the citizens of San Francisco, for Earth Day 2005.
Awards
156 West Superior receives an Award of Merit in the 2007 AIA Regional Design Awards. The Tillamook Forest Center will be receiving the Governor's Tourism Achievement Award this week during the annual conference in Sunriver.The AIA has announced the recipients of the 2007 Housing Awards.
156 West Superior - MultiFamily Category Award!
The University of Washington, Conibear Shellhouse received an Honor Award and the University of Washington, Merrill Hall Reconstruction garnished a Citation Award in the AIA Washington Civic Design Awards.
The University of Washington Conibear Shellhouse also received a Citation while the East Capitol Campus received an Honor Award, for the Excellence in Concrete Construction, Washington Aggregates & Concrete Construction Program.
Publications
In 2006, Miller|Hull projects have been featured in the following publications:The Green House: new directions in sustainable architecture (1310 East Union Live/Work Lofts); The Face of Home: A New way to look at the Outside of Your House (Roundy Residence); Beach Houses (Guemes Island Residence, Island residence, Lake Washington Residence); April issue of Sunset : “Into the Woods” (Tillamook Forest Center); March issue of Residential Architect : “Sense and Sustainability” (Mercy, Marquand)
Eck, Jeremiah, FAIA. (2006)
The Face of Home: A New way to look at the Outside of Your House.
Newtown, CT : Taunton Press
Roundy Residence (p. 53-59)
Mathewson, Casey. (2006)
Beach Houses.
Berlin: Feierabend
Guemes Island Residence (p. 58-59)
Island residence (p. 126-127)
Lake Washington Residence (p. 162-163)
Miller, David, FAIA. (2005)
Toward a New Regionalism: Environmental Architecture in the Pacific Northwest.
Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press
Stang, Alanna, & Hawthorne, Christopher. (2006).
The Green House: new directions in sustainable architecture.
New York: Princeton Architectural Press
1310 East Union Live/Work Lofts (p38-41)
Previous News
On Saturday July 15, the Northgate Library, Community Center and Urban Park held a dedication ceremony with co-emcees City Librarian Deborah L. Jacobs and Seattle Parks and Recreation Superintendent Ken Bounds. Speakers included Mayor Greg Nickels, Library board member Linda Larson, City Council President Nick Licata, and Northgate Project Advisory Team member Marilyn Firlotte.As the speeches concluded, eager patrons rushed through the doors. With 40,000 books to browse, new computers to test, a lush park to explore and music to listen to in both the library and gymnasium, the Northgate community embraced their long awaited 'civic center'. The community center already has classes filling to capacity, neighbors are connecting and children now have a place to play. The excitement is sure to last more than one day as the library and community center become integral facets in Northgate’s urban fabric.
Miller|Hull receives an AIA NW & Pacific Region Honor Award for the Olympic College Poulsbo Branch Campus (August 2005).
Miller|Hull receives an AIA Seattle Design Award (November 2004).Merit Award: Olympic College Poulsbo Branch Campus.
The American Institute of Architects has announced the election of Miller|Hull partner Norman Strong to the AIA College of Fellows. Congratulations Norm!
In recognition of Earth Day 2004, The AIA and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected the Pierce County Environmental Services Building as a National Top Ten Green Award recipient. The Pierce County Environmental Services Building joins Patagonia's Distribution Center, Bainbridge Island City Hall and The Fisher Pavilion as Miller|Hull's Fourth National Top Ten Green Award! Miller|Hull receives two AIA Washington Council Civic Design Awards (February 2004). Honor Award: Olympic College Poulsbo Branch Campus.
Merit Award: Washington State University Shock Physics Institute
Miller|Hull receives a National 2003 Housing PIA Award for the 1310 East Union Live/Work Lofts. March 14, 2003. National AIA Press Release
The Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center wins a Sustainable Building Award at the 2003 B.E.S.T. Award program. "Businesses for an Environmentally Sustainable Future" is sponsored by the Business and Industry Resource Venture.
The Miller|Hull Partnership receives the American Institute of Architect's Highest Honor: AIA 2003 Architecture Firm Award