August 1, 2011 - GGN Principal Bernie Alonzo will be speaking at this year’s Green Gardening IPM Conference. The Conference will take place on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at South Seattle Community College and is sponsored by the City of Seattle’s Green Gardening Program. Bernie will be participating in a section on moving toward sustainable landscapes and will speak specifically on “Designing Sustainable Landscapes from the Ground-Up in an Urban Context.”
Read MoreJuly 21, 2011 - In honor of the grand opening of the Seattle Sheraton Garden Walk the City of Seattle has proclaimed that July 21, 2011 is Seattle Garden Walk Day.
Read MoreJuly 9th, 2011 - Shannon Nichol's design for the landscape of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus (Phase 1) is featured in today's edition of Pacific Magazine, published by the Seattle Times. Valerie Easton writes about Shannon's unusual and strategic planting designs, which feature many Seattle natives, used in bold masses and mixes. The plantings were designed to support the locally-rooted work of the Foundation employees, in concert with the architecture by NBBJ, prime consultant on the project.
Read MoreJuly 1, 2011 - Writer Michael Watts, in The Economist's Summer 2011 issue of Intelligent Life, profiled Kathryn Gustafson in "The Sky is Mine." (Click link to read.)
"....Gustafson is the grande dame of modern landscape architecture. She intends that her remit as a landscape architect begins the moment you leave your home or office; it’s anything under the sun, urban or rural. Town planning, climate change, archaeology, civil engineering, geological history and local myths are all in the job description...."
June 23, 2011 - Kathryn Gustafson will be lecturing at the Denver Botanic Garden on July 7th. Her lecture is sponsored by Denver Women In Design. More information can be found here.
Read MoreJune 13, 2011 - GGN is pleased to announce the promotions of several individuals to senior staff. Bernie Alonzo has been promoted to Principal. In addition, Brian Bishop, Austin McInerny, Anne Morris, and Emily Scott have been promoted to Associates.
Read MoreMay 26, 2011 – GGN has won the 2011 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Landscape Architecture. First launched at the White House in 2000, the National Design Awards promote excellence and innovation in design. GGN and other award recipients will be honored at a gala in New York City on October 20th. This year’s jury of design leaders and educators convened by Cooper-Hewitt reviewed the nominations and chose Lifetime Achievement and Design Mind recipients and selected winners and finalists in the Corporate and Institutional Achievement, Architecture Design, Communication Design, Fashion Design, Interaction Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, and Product Design categories. More information on all the winners can be found on the National Design Awards website.
Read MoreMay 12, 2011 - The new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus was featured in a special section in today's Daily Journal of Commerce. The section features an article about Gustafson Guthrie Nichol's landscape design, written by GGN Partner Shannon Nichol. The section can be found here.
The Foundation will be hosting a Neighborhood Welcome event on Saturday, June 4th.
May 9, 2011 - On May 18th, GGN Associate Bernie Alonzo will guest lecture for the University of Washington Extension School's Implementing Low Impact Development for Civil Engineers course. Bernie's lecture is entitled "Implementing LID: Green Roof Detailing Considerations."
Read MoreApril 12, 2011 - It was recently announced that North End Parks has won an Honor Award from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects. The awards ceremony will take place on April 28. A full list of winners and more information on the awards ceremony can be found here.
Read MoreApril 4, 2011 - GGN is pleased to announce the beginning of construction of the CityCenterDC development by Hines|Archstone in downtown Washington, DC. A new mixed-use development located on the 10-acre site of the former convention center, CityCenterDC is one of the largest downtown development projects currently underway in any U.S. city. Gustafson Guthrie Nichol participated in developing the master plan for the site with lead architect Foster + Partners, and acted as lead landscape architect. Construction commenced on March 23, 2011 and is expected to reach completion by the fourth quarter of 2013. The CityCenterDC website can be found here.
Read MoreMarch 14, 2011 - GGN's new line of furniture with Landscape Forms was featured in today's Daily Journal of Commerce. The article by Lynn Porter, "GGN and Olson Kundig get into the furniture business," includes excerpts from interviews with GGN principal Rodrigo Abela as well as designers from several Seattle-area architecture firms that have designed furniture and objects. To see the article, please click here.
Read MoreFebruary 24, 2011 - GGN is proud to be a co-sponsor of the Next Eco-City symposium on April 7th & 8th. This important event is offered to the public by the University of Washington's Landscape Architecture Department at the College of Built Environments. Next Eco-City's speakers hail from around the world.
Next Eco-City is an interdisciplinary symposium that critically explores the relationships between environment, equity, economy, and design in our rapidly urbanizing world and investigates the dynamics and implications of rapid urban growth in the emerging mega-cities of the global south. For more information, go to this site:http://larch.be.washington.edu/ecocity/
Next Eco-City is an interdisciplinary symposium that critically explores the relationships between environment, equity, economy, and design in our rapidly urbanizing world and investigates the dynamics and implications of rapid urban growth in the emerging mega-cities of the global south. For more information, go to this site:http://larch.be.washington.edu/ecocity/
February 18, 2011 - The terraces, grand stairs, and other features of GGN's Seattle City Hall Plaza are featured in the flagship match of JumpCity: Seattle, a parkour series that is airing on the sports cable channel, G4. City Hall Plaza serves as the main course in Episode 1 of G4's JumpCity: Seattle series. The entire episode can be downloaded on iTunes.
Read MoreFebruary 18, 2011 - GGN and Landscape Forms will be hosting a small launch party and get-together on March 3, 2011 from 5 to 7 p.m., in GGN's Seattle office. Please visit us during your First Thursday art walk! Get a first look at the Maggie Bench and Charlie Table, part of GGN's new furniture line with Landscape Forms. One lucky guest will leave with a free iTouch, courtesy of Landscape Forms!
Read MoreFebruary 16, 2011 - Kathryn Gustafson will be lecturing on her recent work at the University of California at Berkeley on Tuesday, March 15th.
Read MoreFebruary 16, 2011 - Jennifer Guthrie will be lecturing at OTIS College of Arts and Design in Los Angeles on March 31st. More information can be found on the OTIS website.
Read MoreFebruary 14, 2011 - Shannon Nichol has joined the steering committee for AIA Seattle's planned urban center for architecture and design. The center will be: "...a laboratory of ideas and action for a better city, providing a highly visible place of common ground for the region’s business, government, and citizen leaders to come together in fruitful, forward-thinking conversation. Through programs, exhibitions, research, and publications, the center will serve as the place for information and resources on the built environment, promoting innovation in our region and setting the international standard for civic engagement in shaping community."
Read MoreFebruary 11, 2011 - Today's Plain Dealer features GGN's work for Cleveland's Group Plan Commission, presented to Mayor Jackson at a public meeting yesterday. GGN worked with LMN architects, Parkworks, and with the Commission to develop a prioritized master plan to revitalize the monumental Group Plan district (1903, Burnham) and streets connecting to the surrounding downtown core. Cleveland's downtown core is rich in well-preserved, historic architecture. The master plan is developed as a series of modular projects that can be implemented over time to restore the complete functions and beauty of downtown's compact network of streets, squares, and parks.
Read MoreJanuary 24, 2011 - Gustafson Guthrie Nichol is pleased to announce that Jennifer Guthrie and Shannon Nichol will be delivering this year’s Dean’s Distinguished Lecture for the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington.
Dean Daniel Friedman will lead a discussion after the lecture. The lecture is part of the 2010 - 2011 Built Environments Lecture Series.
