April 12, 2010 - A group of University of Washington students studying architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning have organized a two part event to explore the role of the design professions in Seattle's vibrant urban food movement. GGN Principal Keith McPeters will be part of the panel discussion that kicks off the event. The panel will be Thursday, April 15 at 6 p.m. in Architecture Hall, Room 147. Additional information on this two day event can be found here.
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March 24 , 2010 - Shannon Nichol will be lecturing tomorrow evening at Landscape Architecture Days, an annual event held at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. More information on LA Days and the 2010 speakers can be found here.
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March 1, 2010 - GGN Principal Rodrigo Abela was joined by fellow panelist Lisa Green, Assistant Director, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and Moderator Eric Kramer, Associate, ReedHilderbrand Landscape Architecture Inc. to participate in "Shaping Cultural Landscapes: Linking Institutions and People Through Landscape" panel at the Building Museum Symposium in New York. The panel explored how institutions can work with landscape architects more effectively.
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February 15, 2010 - On Wednesday, February 17th at 4 p.m. AIA Seattle will kick off "YOUR CITY Outside", the first in a year-long series of four discussions on the future of Seattle's spaces. This first event features GGN director Shannon Nichol and Ray Gastil, the recent head of Seattle's Department of Planning and Development. Shannon and Ray will be discussing their ideas, impressions, and passions for the transformation of our city’s urban spaces, and the city as a whole. They will each present a twenty minute presentation then an hour and a half of dialog and discussion with the audience will follow. The salon will take place at Henrybuilt at 997 Western Avenue
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February 4, 2010 - Mayor Karl Dean and The Conservancy for the Parthenon & Centennial Park announced today that Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) has been selected to lead the design team for the Centennial Park Master Plan.
“Gustafson Guthrie Nichol designs have enhanced signature public spaces across the country,” Dean said. “I am thrilled they will be working here in Nashville on Centennial Park.”
February 3, 2010 - On Friday, February 5th, an unusually large Big Leaf Maple will be planted at the future entry to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation campus. This specimen has a trunk diameter of almost 8 inches and weighs approximately 10,000 pounds, so a large crane will be used to move the tree into place. With its charismatic, giant leaves, the native Big Leaf Maple is a signature feature of Seattle’s unique, natural landscape, so it will be used throughout the new campus. Big Leaf Maple hosts a special community of other native plants, birds, and beneficial insects within its high canopy, and it will enhance the urban habitat value of the campus.
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February 2, 2010 – The Building Stone Institute announced today that the prestigious Tucker Design Award was awarded to the Kogod Courtyard at the Smithsonian Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. The award-winning Courtyard was designed by landscape architects Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, within an architectural renovation by Foster + Partners architects. This is Gustafson Guthrie Nichol’s third Tucker Design Award. Since its inception in 1977, the Tucker Design Award has been recognized as one of the most prestigious architectural design awards in the country. The award honors those who have achieved excellence in design through the incorporation and use of natural stone in their building or landscape project.
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January 26, 2010 - GGN Partner Shannon Nichol participated in the "Trail to Treasure" design workshop on Saturday, January 30th. The workshop was a component of a planning project to prepare a conceptual plan for a recreational and interpretive trail through Seattle's historic Pioneer Square neighborhood called "Trail to Treasure". The project is sponsored by the Pioneer Square Community Association in collaboration with the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. A Public Meeting was held at the conclusion of the workshop to present and discuss the workshop results.
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December 20, 2009 - Shannon Nichol will serve as a juror for the 2010 ASLA Design Awards. The awards will be presented at the ASLA's annual meeting in Washington, DC. For more information on the 2010 ASLA Awards, please click here.
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December 4 , 2009 - The Gates Foundation campus has officially "topped out." GGN Associate Bernie Alonzo was on hand to watch the highest beam be placed. GGN is designing the landscape for the campus including the central plaza and all streetscapes. For more information on the new Gates Foundation campus, please click here.
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"Towards Paradise" - Gustafson Guthrie Nichol and Gustafson Porter's installation at the Venice Bienalle in 2008, has been awarded a 2009 International Architecture Award by the Chicago Athenaeum. An exhibition of the award recipients took place in Florence, Italy in November. For a full list of award recipients, please click here.
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October 19 , 2009 - The Gustafson Guthrie Nichol + Allied Works Architecture Team was selected this morning as the winner of the Vancouver Community Connector Competition. Other members of the winning team include Arup and public artist Beliz Brother. The Vancouver Community Connector will be a new lid park over I-5 which will reconnect historic Fort Vancouver and the downtown core of Vancouver, WA.
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October 12 , 2009 - Shannon Nichol will be presenting the work of GGN at a lecture Thursday evening in Edmonton, AB. The lecture is presented by M.A.D.E. in Edmonton, as part of the Not Architecture Lecture Series, in partnership with Edmonton on the Edge and the Edmonton Design Committee. While in Edmonton, Shannon will also be a juror for the Urban Design Awards and speaking on a sustainability panel at the University of Alberta.
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October 1 , 2009 - Shannon Nichol and Don Miles, Co-Chairs, invite you to the Seattle AIA Honor Awards on Monday November 9 at Benaroya Hall. This year's theme is Improv/Improve celebrating celebrate the agility, inventiveness and foresight architects bring to their work in this era of change – improvising and reacting quickly to new constraints, and going above and beyond to improve the built environment. Jurors for this year’s awards include; Nigel Dancey, RIBA Foster + Partners, London, Mark Rios, FAIA, FASLA, Rios Clementi Hale, Los Angeles, and Teddy Cruz, eStudio Cruz, San Diego. The event will be moderated by Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA, University of Virginia.
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September 18, 2009 - Gustafson Guthrie Nichol partner Shannon Nichol and associate David Nelson gave a walking tour of the Lurie Garden during the ASLA Annual Meeting. They were joined by Colleen Lockovitch, the Lurie Garden Horticulturalist, and Roy Diblik of Northwind Perennial Farm. Together this team spoke about the Lurie Garden design, construction, plant procurement, maintenance, and programming. Also representing GGN at the annual meeting were Emily Pizzuto who sat on the Landscape Architecture Magazine advertising awards jury, and Rodrigo Abela who participated in a panel discussion about designing landscapes for cultural institutions. GGN was also honored to be Landscape Forms' Guest of Honor a the Landscape Architecture Foundation Millennium Magic Gala on the stage of the Pritzker Pavillion.
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September 24, 2009 - Kathryn Gustafson was a honored as Seattle Homes & Lifestyles and Seattle Design Center's 2009 Design Achievement Award winner in the Landscape Architecture category. Kathryn and the other award winners will be featured in the November/December issue of Seattle Homes & Lifestyles magazine.
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April 14, 2009 - It was announced today that the Freelon Adjaye Bond team, including Gustafson Guthrie Nichol has won the design competition for the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The new museum will be sited on the Washington Mall just east of the Washington Monument. This will be the last building built on the Mall. Read the Washington Post article here.
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