2008 Region Design Award Winners


Outpost
Architect: Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects
Jury Comments: Utilizing a durable and readily available construction material, this residence, designed with great boldness and simplicity, holds its own in its remote environment. The garden walls protect the attached sculpture garden from high winds, adding to the horizontality and in keeping with the gentle undulation of the land.

Photographer: Jan Cox
Evian Town Residential
Architect: Scott Findley / RMJM Hong Kong Limited
Jury Comments: While necessarily dense, the contemporary design is executed with great respect for the historical and cultural context, climate and scale of this city. The project sets a standard for a humane low-rise housing type that is highly commendable. The architect has created natural green spaces, courtyards and gardens that are quiet and elegant, quite different from the typical pool plazas found in many western equivalents.



Photographer: Unlisted
 
University of Oregon Athletic Medicine Center
Architect: Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP
Jury Comments: This state-of-the-arts sports therapy and training facility was placed into an existing building, giving it a renewed life and purpose. It is executed with freshness and a highly developed design sense, impeccably detailed with sophisticated lighting and graphics.



 




Photographer: Basil Childers
 

University of Washington Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering
Architect: LMN Architects
Jury Comments: The design was lauded for the skill with which the academic complex was integrated with the existing building and for its fit within the delicate campus setting of older neo-Gothic buildings and a nearby historic grove. The spaces are intelligently organized and employ sustainable strategies, including expressive sunshading devices. The heart of the center, a tall interior courtyard, connects the differing floor levels of the existing building with the new building, and has a comfortable scale and ambience for its users.



Photographer: Lara Swimmer / Swimmer Photography
 
The Lee Center for the Arts at Seattle University
Architect: LMN Architects
Jury Comments: Situated within a former 1930s automobile showroom, this new performing arts center exemplifies the power of architecture to support and enhance the urban environment. While most of the primary structure and framing were retained and some of its existing surfaces left exposed to reveal its former existence, the new façade along the street is modern and highly transparent, allowing the community to see into the lobby activity during the daytime and evenings.



Photographer: Barret Rudich / Portfolio Productions
 

Firstenburg Community Center
Architect: Opsis Architecture
Jury Comments: The architecture lives up to the admirable social and recreational program of a small community in an unselfconscious manner. Employing numerous green strategies, the community center preserves and enhances the relationship between the interior functions and the surrounding forest through an architectural expression of transparency, diversity and linkage.




Photographer: Michael Mathers
 

Bellevue City Hall
Architect: SRG Partnership
Jury Comments: This programmatically ambitious project is an insightful and successful transformation of a drab, former telecommunications building into a state-of-the-arts public amenity. The jury commended the architect for executing this difficult renovation and addition with intelligence and flair, and for providing landscaped open spaces that reach out to the public at street level.




Photographers: Lara Swimmer and Spike Mafford
 

Nishimura Restaurant
Architect: CL3 Architects Limited
Jury Comments: This contemporary Japanese restaurant represents the marriage of digital technology and traditional craft. The palette of materials is spare and restrained, employed consistently throughout, and featured in several locations. Most impressive is a feature wall of 1,000 sandwiched plywood panels, shaped and punctured through hand tooling.



Photographer: Eddie Siu
 
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