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ClientAcorn Development (Amazon.com Inc.)LocationSeattleOffice: LargeNBBJFifty-one years after architect Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome--covered in a thin acrylic membrane--at Expo 67 in Montreal gained worldwide attention, and three years after construction crews [...]

Perhaps more than any physical or spatial design feature, creating a new headquarters for Seattle-based insurer Delta Dental of Washington was all about employee involvement: not simply attending a few [...]

The 2017 Healthcare Environment Awards--honoring innovative architectural and interior design solutions that enhance the quality of healthcare delivery--are presented by Contract magazine in partnership with The Center for Health Design [...]

For a family-owned operation, Graham Baba Architects crafts a sublime headquarters rooted in the landscape of central Washington's golden hills [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The land of the Yakima Valley [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 110-year-old law firm Stoel Rives enjoys a national presence, with a dozen offices across the country serving a number of practice areas. Timber, though, is one of [...]

Portland, Oregon, has become one of America's food meccas over the past decade thanks to its chef-friendly bounty of nearby agriculture, vineyards, and fishing, and a populace that is receptive [...]

Client University of Oregon Location Eugene, Oregon Before designing the Hatfield-Dowlin Complex--a new operations center, training facility, and locker room suite for the football team of the University of Oregon [...]

Client City of Seattle Department of Transportation Location Seattle Although Seattle's King Street Station was completed in 1906--in an era of grandly ambitious railway stations--and was designed by the architect [...]

When the University of Washington's Odegaard Undergraduate Library opened in 1972, the design by acclaimed Seattle architect Paul Hayden Kirk gave students a bountiful 165,000 square feet of space for [...]

From the pool deck of the Ginsburg residence, the view through bordering palm trees to the idyllic Intracoastal Waterway makes the setting itself seem like a work of art. Colors [...]

Although it is located in a former warehouse where workers fabricated tiles made from porcelain--the same material used in most fillings Seattle Kids Dentistry is not the usual banal chamber [...]

When a husband and wife pair left the Portland area a little more than a decade ago, their friend and designer Heidi Semler had a feeling the couple would come [...]

The first thing a Canadian couple did after purchasing a 1960s Delray Beach condo overlooking the ocean was to strip the space down to its columns and bare structure. In [...]

When an empty-nester couple decided to move from their single-family home to a penthouse condo in the Uptown neighborhood of Portland, where stately Victorian houses give way to hip restaurants [...]

ARCHITECTURE Sarah Swartz Wessel and Ethan Wessel, Tennen Studio HOME BUILDER Sarah Swartz Wessel and Ethan Wessel, Tennen Construction BEDROOMS 3 | BATHROOMS 4 | SQUARE FEET 4,000 Little more [...]

A Seattle couple were seeking renewal without leaving home. After 28 years in a traditionally styled house overlooking Lake Washington and Mount Rainier, they wanted to go modern but keep [...]

INTERIOR DESIGN Lori Carroll, ASID, I IDA, Lori Carroll & Associates ARCHITECTURE Marc Soloway, Soloway Designs Inc. HOME BUILDER Bill Updike, Process Design Build, LLC LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Tray Gers, The [...]

A family of four loved their cherished neighborhood in Palm Beach Gardens' Old Palm Golf Club. But with having two teenage girls, they needed space to grow. And along with [...]

When architect Matt Robertson began discussing floor plans with his clients, he quickly discovered that they were not afraid to think outside the box. The couple initially wanted to build [...]

The clients were only reluctantly coming out of retirement. After happily living in tranquil waterside surroundings off Vancouver Island, they were returning to Seattle for business reasons. And finding an [...]

What happens when you combine the grand sophistication of an Italian villa, the rustic charm of a French country house and a matchless view of the Arizona desert? You get [...]

Sometimes the best houses are hiding in plain sight. Such was the case with an Aspen residence that just needed the right renovation to unveil its potential. Originally built in [...]

FINDING THE RIGHT PLACE TO CALL HOME CAN BE A TEDIOUSLY DAUNTING TASK. But as soon as one Colorado couple discovered a hillside setting in Silverthorne with sweeping mountain views, [...]

A COUPLE LOOKING TO DOWNSIZE WEREN'T NECESSARILY LOOKING FOR A HOME DESIGNED BY MIDCENTURY MODERNIST ARCHITECT ROLAND TERRY, BUT FATE KEPT INTERVENING. 'We were searching for a house that had [...]

SOMETIMES THE SUSTAINABLE CHOICE IS ALSO THE MOST AESTHETICALLY PLEASING ONE. Such was the case with a residence on Lopez Island in Puget Sound, a waterfront vacation home draped in [...]

MATTHEW BERGMAN'S RESIDENCE ON VASHON ISLAND IN PUGET SOUND NEEDED TO BE MANY THINGS AT ONCE. Although creating a comfortable family home was paramount, the residence would also require room [...]

HIGH ON A hillside overlooking snowcapped Mt Hood, yet just a: few minutes by bike from downtown Portland, the home of architect Webster Wilson feels like a nature-lover's oasis in [...]

Perhaps more than any other designer, Aalto humanized the boxy, cold modernism of the Bauhaus with warm, natural materials, elegant curves, and a reverence for natural light. A year later, Aalto opened his first architectural office in Jyväskylä, the city in central Finland where he was raised, and met arguably his greatest influence, fellow architect Aino Marsio, whom he married in 1924. DESIGNER PROFILE Very few 20th-century designers could create enduring works at every scale, be it architecture, interiors or furniture. [Extracted from the article]

Following an invitation from the Vitra Design Museum, Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis has transformed the Schaudepot in one simple, sweeping gesture by sorting its roughly four hundred exhibits by color. MUSEUM EXHIBITION The annual presentation at the Vitra Schaudepot reveals the collection of the Vitra Design Museum in a fresh light every year. Well-known examples include the architect Le Corbusier, who devised a palette of carefully graded shades, and the designer Verner Panton, whose vivid colors communicated the hippie vibe of the 1960s and '70s. [Extracted from the article]

All useful architectural information pertaining to concrete tiles is presented. The design criteria which regulate the use of concrete tiles are enlisted. The impacts of weather conditions, coloring and efflorescence on the use of concrete tiles are dealt with in detail.

PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): "Paul Evans was an artist making money as a furniture designer", Merrill says. DESIGNER PROFILE By the time furniture designer and artist Paul Evans died in 1987 at age 56, it would have been reasonable to wonder whether his legacy was already slipping away. Within two years, however, Evans returned to Bucks County and in 1955 began sharing a showroom with furniture designer Phillip Lloyd Powell. [Extracted from the article]

Knoll was producing the furniture, but there was a need to plan the whole project." "She's the most influential female designer of the 20th century", says Kathryn Hiesinger, a senior curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art who curated a 2005 retrospective of Florence Knoll's career. DESIGNER PROFILE More than any other brand, Knoll is synonymous with great 20th-century modern furniture design. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents the discussion on Alvar Aalto's contribution to modern architecture creating a wide range of buildings, furniture, lighting, and textiles.