November 8, 2012 - Keith McPeters, Principal at GGN, will be part of a panel discussion on "Places Between Spaces, Seattle's Pocket Parks" held at Town Hall, November 13th. This is part of the Seattle Architecture Foundation (SAF) Design in Depth Lecture Series.
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October 16, 2012 - Gustafson Guthrie Nichol welcomes our new colleagues Makie Suzuki, Fred Jala, and Chihiro Donovan.
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October 10, 2012 - GGN is pleased to announce the promotions of David Malda, Rebecca Fuchs, and Jill Fortuna to Associates.
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October 8, 2012 - GGN's Seattle office is now located in the historic Terminal Sales Building in downtown Seattle. Our new address is:
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
1932 First Avenue, Suite 700
Seattle, WA 98101
September 27, 2012 - David Malda, Associate at GGN, has been appointed to the Landscape Architect Foundation's Board of Directors as a former Olmsted Scholar. David was selected as the National Olmsted Scholar in 2009.
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September 20, 2012 - Shannon Nichol was on the jury for the design competition "Transforming Seattle's 520 Floating Bridge." More than 70 design plan were submitted from 18 countries, each with creative solutions for the re-use of the pontoons. The winners were announced by the jurors on September 21 as part of the Seattle Design Festival. The local paper and news channel featured the event.
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September 18, 2012 - Shannon Nichol served on the Boston Society of Architects' 2012 Honor Awards jury. You can follow BSA news here.
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September 18, 2012 - Christopher Beardsley for Urban Design Review leads a discussion between Kathryn Gustafson of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, Rob Rogers of Rogers Marvel Architects, and Marion Weiss of WEISS/MANFREDI, about each of their winning designs for the National Mall. GGN's Union Square design is here.
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September 1, 2012 - Gustafson Guthrie Nichol is pleased to announce the opening of our new Washington, DC office space. This brings GGN closer to our projects in the Eastern U.S., as well as current DC projects: CityCenterDC, the National Museum of African American History & Culture, and the recently won Union Square design.
Rodrigo Abela, Principal, is based in DC and continues to work with a project-driven rotation of GGN's Seattle-based staff.
August 24, 2012 – Jennifer Guthrie of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, along with Dave Heater of Ankrom Moisan Associated Architects, wrote about the University of Washington’s Mercer Court student housing project for the Daily Journal of Commerce. Learn more about this new type of campus landscape that integrates an urban farm, on our project page.
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August 23, 2012 – On September 5th, Kathryn Gustafson will be a keynote speaker at the International Federation of Landscape Architect's (IFLA) World Congress held in Cape Town, South Africa. This year's theme is "Landscapes in Transition" and the conference is September 5 - 7. More info here.
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July 27, 2012 – As part of AIA Seattle’s “COTE Case Study Tour: The Gates Foundation,” Bernie Alonzo will be presenting the sustainable systems of this LEED Platinum campus, along with presenters from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, NBBJ, and Arup. Tour will focus on sustainable systems including green roofs, rainwater collection, water gardens, smart lighting, and thermal energy storage, and will take place August 2, from 4 to 6 pm.
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June 29, 2012 – As we head into the summer, GGN welcomes our new colleagues. Jordan Bell, Jill Fortuna, and AJ Taaca join us as Designers (top row). Kevin Bogle is our Office Clerk and Adam Novack is our Summer Intern (bottom row).
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June 1, 2012 – Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, in collaboration with Landscape Forms, is pleased to announce the introduction of UrbanEdge, a collection of landscape framing and furniture elements for urban spaces. The collection is produced by Landscape Forms, the world’s largest manufacturer of high-design site and streetscape furniture collections and amenities.
UrbanEdge pairs GGN’s experience in designing urban spaces with Landscape Forms’ expertise in developing beautiful site furnishings that address issues in urban environments; built to perform and endure under conditions of high-usage.
The UrbanEdge collection can now be viewed at Landscape Forms.
May 22, 2012 - On May 31, 2012, as part of the National Building Museum's "A Conversation with the National Mall Design Competition Winners," Rodrigo Abela, together with Peter Cook, will represent the Gustafson Guthrie Nichol and Davis Brody Bond team and share the team’s ideas and images for transforming Union Square. The program will feature the three winning designs and their designers, and will be moderated by John Beardsley, director of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.
Event is sponsored by the Trust for the National Mall and the National Capital Planning Commission. A video of the presentation is available online.
May 17, 2012 - Rodrigo Abela was the guest lecturer for Susan Olmsted’s course “Architecture in the Landscape” for the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington. Rodrigo discussed the investigation at shifting scales of design in relation to landscape, architecture and urban design for two of GGN’s Washington DC projects, including the recent winning design of Union Square for the National Mall Competition.
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May 10, 2012 – Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, together with Crosby Schlessinger Smallridge of Boston, are the recipients of the biennial Tucker Design Award for 2012.GGN and CSS have been recognized for North End Parks, the three-acre park that was part of the “Big Dig” development in Boston, MA. First presented in 1977, the Tucker Design Award is a nationally recognized architectural design award in both the building and landscape industries. The Tucker Design Award honors those whose work demonstrates excellence in concept, design, construction, and use of natural stone.
“It is an honor for GGN and CSS to receive this award for work that was a joy for us to do. We fell in love with the North End neighborhood while designing the Parks, and I like to think that this emotion came through in the careful detailing of the stone.”
Shannon Nichol, Director of GGN.
May 3, 2012 – Gustafson Guthrie Nichol and architects Davis Brody Bond are pleased to announce their selection as winners of the National Mall Design Competition for Union Square. The competition, organized by the Trust for the National Mall, was a three-stage process to select a design team.
The project team, lead by Kathryn Gustafson and Rodrigo Abela of GGN, and Carl Krebs and Peter Cook of Davis Brody Bond, sees the site as a setting for some of the nation's most powerrful shared memories.
“The National Mall is an extraordinary, monumental landscape. Remarkable for its sheer scale, its powerful presence serves the country as both a public park and place of gathering and discourse. The goal of our design is to create a sustainable, durable, and flexible plaza that is both inviting and active even when it is not in use for national events."
Kathryn Gustafson, Director of GGN.
March 26, 2012 – Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) is pleased to announce that Kathryn Gustafson is the recipient of the annual Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. This honor is given to a preeminent architect from any country who has made a significant contribution to architecture as an art. Gustafson is only the third landscape architect in 57 years to be awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture.
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