Competition remains strong despite pandemic challenges
An early design twist substituted twin avalanche bridges for the originally planned snowshed
Lincoln High School is both the oldest and newest operating high school in the Seattle Public Schools.
A five-story shell in the heart of Seattle’s South Lake Union area provided a canvas for tenant renovations in a Class A commercial space for a residential real estate brokerage firm.
The heart of Bellevue College—the 71,000-sq-ft, three-story Student Success Center—received a $28-million upgrade.
Tucked into Portland’s picturesque Reed College, the 66,000-sq-ft Trillium Residence Hall is organized in a pinwheel design, with three wings of three stories each and a central atrium at its heart, and with enough room to house 180 first-year students.
The project team faced a complex mixture of needs when building the six-story Blackburn Center for owner Central City Concern.
The 125,000-sq-ft renovation and seismic upgrade of the Providence St. Vincent Main Tower was done over four years and allowed the nine-story acute care hospital tower to remain occupied throughout the work.
The need to work within a sprawling, disjointed collection of properties helped Northwest Housing Alternatives fully appreciate how to create a community atmosphere at its Milwaukie, Ore., campus.
The $186-million King County Children and Family Justice Center modernized youth and family court services by creating a 137,000-sq-ft courthouse with 10 courtrooms, a 92,000-sq-ft, 112-bed juvenile detention center, a 10,200-sq-ft youth program space and more than 1.5 acres of open areas, including pedestrian and cycling pathways and a public plaza.
Burns & McDonnell used an engineering-procure-construct (EPC) delivery model to help schedule phases for minimal outage times during the McNary Substation upgrade to the brownfield substation and the installation of new transmission lines.
Repowering the Goodnoe Hills Wind Project required IEA Constructors to merge new technology with old, upgrading the wind farm along the way.
The multilevel Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center offered an intricate lesson in steel and concrete design.
Linking downtown Seattle to Bellevue with a 14-mile light rail extension required crossing a floating bridge over Lake Washington, passing through multiple cities and constructing a tunnel through downtown Bellevue.
Tall, skinny condo tower, whose concrete diagrid gives it structural support, also earned Best Residential/Hospitality recognition