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Seattle Prepatory Academy Performing Arts and Student Commons
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ARTS at King Street Station
Major renovation of King Street Station's third floor to support local arts and culture, highlighting communities of color
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Louisiana Children’s Museum at City Park
New children’s museum with integrated community service centers and outdoor education to enrich the lives of children and families
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Seattle Preparatory School Liturgical and Fine Arts Center
New addition to McDonnell Hall featuring a flexible 350-seat auditorium for performance and worship
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Seattle and San Francisco-based Mithun and Hodgetts + Fung of Los Angeles Merge to Expand National Integrated Design Firm
The merger strengthens our collective practice, increasing expertise and capacity for large-scale projects throughout the West Coast.
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Construction Starts on the New ULab at University Prep
The new building will expand UPrep’s Upper School enrollment capacity and project-based, interdisciplinary earning environments.
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Casa Adelante 681 Florida Opens in San Francisco
The building contributes to a vibrant Mission District with 130 affordable homes, including 39 permanent supportive housing units, and ground-floor space for local arts organizations.
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Affordable Housing as Social and Cultural Infrastructure
Housing affordability is a critical issue for cities across the nation. New developments in San Francisco and Seattle highlight strategies to address this challenge, with design that advances social justice and celebrates local identity.
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Robert Frost Auditorium
Dynamic renovation of an iconic 1960s-era auditorium to preserve the historic structure and create a contemporary performing arts center on the Culver City High School campus
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Casa Adelante at 681 Florida
Affordable housing and community arts space in the Mission
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Process
We start every project by understanding the mission, vision and values of our clients, and considering how built form can reflect and amplify these core goals. This is the foundation for ideation, and the ultimate measurement of design success.
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How Growth Can Benefit Community: Kirkland’s Groundbreaking Station Area Plan for NE 85th
The City of Kirkland’s new NE 85th Street Station Area Plan addresses one of the biggest issues facing cities throughout the region: how to encourage growth that provides housing, jobs and community amenities while celebrating and supporting the people and the places that are there today.
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Mass Timber Schools: Wellness in Wood
Humans have an innate need to connect with the natural world. At the same time, emerging mass timber technology has the capacity to help reduce and achieve net-negative embodied carbon. Finding a way to optimize mass timber technology that affords a cost-competitive biophilic approach to build bette...
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Two Mithun Projects Honored by AIA Washington Council
ARTS at King Street Station and Liberty Bank Building received Citation Awards in the 2020 Civic Design Awards program.
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About Us
We are united by a belief in the power of design We leverage technology and integrated disciplines to advance design that serves individuals, communities and our planet. Research and development programs enable our teams and collaborators to transcend boundaries, reaching ever higher levels of desig...
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Sun Valley Healthy Living Initiative and “SOL” Health Action Plan Receive APA Award for Excellence in Sustainability
This national award from the American Planning Association (APA) recognizes Mithun’s work with Denver Housing Authority to improve the health and well-being of residents in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Denver.
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Building Bike-friendly Neighborhoods
Integration of bicycle and pedestrian strategies in urban planning and architectural design is vital to the creation of effective and connected cities.
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North Seattle College Opportunity Center for Employment and Education
Expansion and renovation to an existing 1970s-era concrete building to create a campus resource center providing integrated employment, educational and supportive services to students and the greater community
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Verano 8 Graduate Student Housing Opens at UC Irvine
The significant new residential and student-life community expands access to affordable housing on campus for the university’s growing graduate student population.
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Design for Health Equity: From Healthy Places to Inclusive Communities
Leading cities and organizations are looking upstream to build back better and address barriers to healthy housing, clean energy and air, reliable transportation and essential services. Erin Christensen Ishizaki shares highlights from recent planning and strategic efforts in Portland, OR, Denver and...
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2020 Vision for Mithun R+D
In these rapidly changing times, it is more important than ever to engage in critical research that challenges practice norms, proposes new paths and integrates diverse knowledge sets. Learn about our latest efforts and the five firm-wide focus areas for Mithun R+D.
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Sun Valley Community School Hagenbuch Hall for the Creative Arts and Middle School
New indoor and outdoor learning environments for the middle school and creative arts programs of a K-12 independent school
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Pacific Northwest Ballet Francia Russell Center
Adaptive renovation of a wood-framed warehouse into the new home for a dance school and performance center
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Casa Adelante at 681 Florida Begins Construction
San Francisco Mayor London Breed and community leaders celebrate the groundbreaking of 130-unit Casa Adelante affordable housing in the Mission District.
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2023 Mithun Promotions
We are pleased to announce staff promotions in our Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.
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Brendan Connolly
Brendan has focused his career on creating innovative built environments for educational and corporate clients. His passion for design runs from the earliest stages of conceptual development through the final days of construction, resulting in work that is both beautifully conceived, and of the high...
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Award-Winning Schacht Aslani Architects Joins Mithun’s Integrated Design Practice
Mithun and Schacht Aslani have a long history of complementary expertise and professional collaboration, and this new union leverages the knowledge and client work of both firms for a wide range of projects.
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2022 Mithun Promotions
We are pleased to announce staff promotions in our Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.
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Sade Borghei
Sade is an architect with a passion for applying creative design solutions to positively impact individuals, communities and the greater natural environment. His background in fine arts and early career designing housing in Holland inform his current work, which is focused on site-planning and archi...
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Peninsula College Maier Hall
New multi-disciplinary academic building with shared instructional resources and theater set within a remarkable natural environment overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca
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A Summer to Remember: 2020 Mithun Interns
Student interns are an important part of the culture at Mithun. We asked this year’s cohort to share perspective into their inspirations, dream projects and summer experience.
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Yesler Community Center
Full-service community center within an inner-city neighborhood near downtown Seattle
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Elizabeth Gordon
Elizabeth is an award winning designer with a holistic approach to design. With a strong focus on concept-driven, integrated design, she has led the design of numerous corporate workplaces in Silicon Valley for Fortune 100 companies, as well as other corporate and cultural projects in Seattle and na...
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The ‘100 Percent Corner’ Moves Downtown
To keep attracting people to the city, Seattle must maintain its economic, ethnic and cultural diversity.
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Net Positive: Chatham’s Eden Hall Campus
A look into the integrated design and innovative results at Chatham University Eden Hall Campus, a 2017 AIA COTE Top Ten Project.
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Turning Challenges into Learning Opportunities
Brendan Connolly and new Mithun principal JoAnn Hindmarsh Wilcox explore key opportunities present in disruption: designing for health, equity and agile learning with an eye to the future.
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Design in Kinship
VisionDesign in Kinship explores how to mainstream relational work and build kinship between designers and community leaders. If equitable design is the stated goal, relational work is the pathway to get there. What’s missing in the traditional design process is the time to build trust between des...
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Childcare Center Opens at UW
A ribbon-cutting ceremony marks the completion of the UW Children’s Center at Portage Bay.
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AIA San Francisco Honors the Technology Innovation Training Center
The Silicon Valley technology training center received a Merit Award with Social Responsibility Commendation in the 2017 AIA San Francisco Design Awards program.
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Hensel Phelps, Mithun Win UC San Diego Student Housing Project
The Nuevo West Graduate Student Housing is utilizing design-build delivery and will open in 2019.
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Binhai Hexie New City
Master plan for a new mixed-use residential district, and a more detailed design for a 27.5-acre demonstration neighborhood within the plan
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Mithun’s San Francisco Office Turns 10
We are celebrating a decade of Design for Positive Change in the Bay Area.
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Hirabayashi Place Workforce Housing
Transit-oriented mixed-use housing at the gateway to Seattle’s historic Japantown
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Chatham Campus Receives AIA CAE Education Facility Design Award
AIA Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) honors Chatham University Eden Hall Campus with the 2018 Education Facility Design Award of Excellence.
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Centering Equity, Reconciliation and Community in Coastal Adaptation
Coastal adaptation can have far-reaching benefits for communities, prompting critical evaluation of design and planning processes, and leading to important shifts in the systems that shape the built environment.
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2024 Mithun Promotions
We are pleased to announce staff promotions in our Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle offices.
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Observations on Campus Planning
How campus planning is evolving to better support mission, educational delivery and community in a changing world.
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New Show Opens in Threshold Gallery
Join us for an artist reception celebrating Design in Motion with Barron Peper on August 2nd.
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Mithun Projects Win AIA Seattle Awards
Blakely Elementary School and Louisiana Children’s Museum are recognized with Awards of Merit in the 2020 Honor Awards for Washington Architecture.
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Climate Approaches: Heat Resilience
Extreme heat, whether in the form of rising long-term average temperatures or punctuated by heat waves, is a global health threat. Learn how Mithun’s designers are addressing climate and health impacts of rising heat through innovative design strategies, R+D and real-world project applications.
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How Maker Labs Can Open Doors to STEM Careers
Hands-on maker spaces introduce opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math to new audiences that might not otherwise consider them.
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Planning for Carbon Neutral Cities
A strategic and cooperative planning effort in Austin, Texas, offers a model for development of people-centric, livable and sustainable urban environments.
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Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge
One of 10 teams selected to work with communities to develop collaborative, implementable projects to address sea level rise and climate change across the San Francisco Bay Area
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Mithun Projects Honored for Design-Build Excellence
Two higher education projects earned Merit Awards from the DBIA national 2020 Design-Build Project/Team Awards competition.
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Build Carbon Neutral 2.0
VisionIn the years since the buildcarbonneutral.org (BCN) calculator went live in 2007 it has served a vital purpose: in addition to educating people about the impact that construction’s embodied carbon can have on climate change, it is an easy-to-use tool for early assessment of that impact. The ...
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Mithun Chosen to Design State-of-the-Art Campus in Morganton, NC
The Industrial Commons has selected Mithun as the lead architect for design and development of the Innovation Campus in Morganton, NC. Mithun’s multi-disciplinary team will help transform the 27-acre tract of land from a neglected brownfield into a thriving and sustainable hub of manufacturing and...
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Expertise
we harness synergy between disciplines and practice areas to create meaningful places At Mithun, design is a holistic, interdisciplinary pursuit encompassing architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban design and planning. Our integrated team employs shared research and collaborati...
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Mithun Receives 2023 AIA Architecture Firm Award
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently recognized Mithun with the 2023 AIA Architecture Firm Award. This national accolade celebrates exemplary design and practice, and is the highest honor the AIA bestows on an architecture firm.
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Decarbonizing Buildings for All
Mithun’s all-electric affordable housing projects are featured in the Rocky Mountain Institute’s coverage of the Getting to Zero Forum and efforts to equitably decarbonize the economy.
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Green Lake Community Boathouse
Community boathouse for public youth rowing and paddling programs on the shore of Green Lake
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Happy Spaces, Healthy People
Elizabeth Gordon explores the impact of optimistic spaces on health and well-being in the workplace.
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Designing a Green New Deal
VisionEquitable workforce development drives jobs and justice, helping to secure community agency and stability in a decarbonizing world. When engaging in living infrastructure projects, it is imperative that planning and design professionals shape this work to support a just transition to a regener...
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NE 85th Station Area Plan and Code
Station Area Plan that supports growth of a suburban area around a new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) station and regional trail, including a new plan, form-based code, sustainability framework, green innovation policies, incentive zoning program, design guidelines and Planned Action Ordinance
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Perot Family Offices
New corporate campus for Perot family business enterprises in the heart of downtown Dallas
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Anne Torney Honored Among Bay Area Power Women
Bisnow names Anne Torney one of the Bay Area’s most influential women in commercial real estate.
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Sustainability, Culture and Legacy at the House of Awakened Culture and the Suquamish Museum
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University of California San Diego Celebrates Groundbreaking of New Campus Housing
Construction on a vibrant new home for more than 1,300 graduate and professional students and their families, is officially underway.
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UC San Diego Mesa Nueva Graduate and Professional Student Housing
A new mixed-use residential community serving more than 1,300 graduate students at UC San Diego
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Wanapum Heritage Center
Heritage center and museum that tells the story of the Wanapum Band, preserves traditional artifacts and provides an active cultural center
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Habits of High-Performance Firms
Mithun is featured in a new report from the AIA Committee on the Environment about the best practices of leading design firms.
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Construction Begins at Blakely Elementary
Bainbridge Island School District, our design team and the local community joined to celebrate the groundbreaking of Captain Johnston Blakely Elementary School.
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Lisa Scribante
Creative workplaces that improve health, enhance productivity, and support a client’s values and mission are no longer a trend—they define the modern sustainable workplace. With more than 20 years of experience in the design and management of corporate, hospitality, and public sector projects, L...
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Mariposa – South Lincoln Redevelopment Master Plan
Master plan transforming the former South Lincoln public housing project into an energized transit-oriented community where people enjoy green, healthy living; arts and culture; and close proximity to downtown
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Mosaica Alabama Street Housing
Innovative mixed-use development incorporating affordable rental and ownership housing, commercial and light industrial space
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Building Better Schools
VisionEmerging mass timber technology is changing the construction industry with multiple advantages such as reducing embodied carbon and compressing construction schedules. There is also a growing body of research proving biophilic indoor environments can improve learning outcomes and enhance stude...
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Shaping Cities with Integrated Green Infrastructure
Green Infrastructure planning and design provides the vital link to creating regenerative communities.
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Walter Schacht
Walter believes in the power of architecture to transform people and places. His strategic thinking and communications skills enable him to bring communities together around a common vision for their projects. His planning and design process engage the specific circumstances of each project, leading...
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Prefabrication and Modular Approaches Rise to the Challenge
In order to meet some of today’s greatest social and environmental challenges, Mithun is embracing emerging technologies to explore improved methods to design and build. Prefabricated construction shows particular promise.
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Heartline
A new mixed use, transit-oriented development incorporating a residential highrise, timber frame office building and central courtyard
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Bill LaPatra
With more than 40 years of practice, Bill serves as design partner on a range of higher education, civic, and mixed-use projects including housing and commercial. He leads projects from consensus-building input through completion, ensuring that each design grows from a deep green foundation, with te...
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Debra Guenther
As a partner and landscape architect at Mithun, Deb has built a team that brings exceptional quality, critical thinking and award-winning design to projects. Deb is committed to connecting people with their surroundings and each other. She works on diverse projects — delivering conceptual design i...
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Daniel Solomon
Dan is an architect and urban designer whose 50-year career combines achievements in professional practice with academic pursuits of teaching and writing. As a Design Partner, he brings extensive experience and expertise to the design of integral affordable housing and urban infill projects. His com...
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Next Generation Inspiration: 2018 Student Interns
Student interns are an important part of the culture at Mithun. We recently sat down with this year’s group to talk about their inspirations, dream projects and summer highlights.
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Anne Torney
Anne is an architect who has made affordable multi-family housing and transit-oriented urban infill the focus of her work for more than 30 years. Her affordable housing experience includes award-winning projects in San Francisco and beyond, including Casa Adelante at 2060 Folsom, recognized with a n...
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Jason Steiner
Jason leads digital design integration at Mithun—guiding the application of performance-driven design, visualization and digital processes across the firm’s projects, research and development efforts. He brings creative thinking and big ideas to the work of the Mithun coLAB, empowering next gene...
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Ken Boyd
As a project leader, Ken guides a dynamic and efficient design process while fostering relationships that generate integrated, intelligent solutions. With more than 28 years of experience including corporate office and mixed-use environments for both private and municipal clients, Ken keeps project ...
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200 Occidental: Sustainable Future of Historic Pioneer Square
There is nothing ordinary about the origins of 200 Occidental.
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Lana Lisitsa
Lana is an adept, client-focused project manager with over 20 years of experience in education, institutional, and corporate project types. Since joining Mithun in 2008, she has provided deft management of complex projects including new headquarters for Weyerhaeuser at 200 Occidental, Seattle Univer...
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The New Nordic Museum Opens in Seattle
Highlights of the design, grand opening events and media coverage for one of Seattle’s most anticipated cultural openings of the year.
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Affordable Family Housing: Designing for Social Resilience
How can we best support urban families and children through affordable housing design? Learn about five design strategies that strengthen family life and social resilience: in-building childcare, amenity suites, corridor lounges, flexible outdoor space and stairs as play space.
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Lisa Jacks
Lisa is an architect with 20 years of experience, focusing primarily on multi-family housing and educational projects throughout the Bay Area. She is experienced in both new construction and renovation of existing structures. Lisa excels in steering projects with diverse client groups and large cons...
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New Los Angeles “SkyPark” Concept Revealed at Uber Elevate 2019
Our “SkyPark” design concept supports the commercial launch of Uber Air in Los Angeles and serves the greater community, incorporating transit connectivity, sustainable performance and neighborhood placemaking with an expansive public amenity at ground level.
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University Prep ULab
New academic hub for an independent school campus, expanding upper school learning opportunities and campus enrollment
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Nick Wai-Poi
Nick Wai-Poi is a project designer and manager with more than fifteen years of professional experience in the United States, New Zealand and England. He brings valuable technical and program insight to a wide range of project types including mixed-use and multi-unit residential buildings, student ho...
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Wellness at Work
Small changes can have big impacts when it comes to promoting health and well-being in the workplace.
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New Show Opens at Mithun’s Threshold Gallery
Join us for an artist reception celebrating SCRIBED with Jared Bender on November 3rd.
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Hilary Noll
Hilary is an architect and social impact designer specializing in sustainability. A background in environmental studies and community development informs her work with groups through participatory design to achieve holistic place-based solutions that address issues of resilience, social justice, hea...
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Bert Gregory Receives AIA Seattle Gold Medal
AIA Seattle honors Bert Gregory with its highest award, the Gold Medal.
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On Fire
VisionNearly all lands and plant communities in the western United States are adapted to fire exposure, and for thousands of years indigenous peoples here have used fire intentionally to cultivate plant and human health symbiotically. The consequences of 150 years of fire suppression as a developmen...
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and Mithun to expand on-campus housing for nearly 4,000 students at University of California, Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara has selected SOM and Mithun to oversee the design and construction of seven new student housing buildings on main campus.
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Liberty Bank Building Ribbon Cutting March 23rd
The Liberty Bank Building—a model for equitable, affordable housing development in Seattle—opens with a community ribbon cutting and block party in the Central District.
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Landscapes that Welcome
Aligned with the National Nordic Museum’s mission to serve as a community gathering space, the plazas and gardens of the museum invite neighbors and visitors to linger and explore.
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Evan Bourquard
Evan is a keen problem-solver known for his skill at leading complex renovations for civic and higher education institutions, including successful projects within historic structures and buildings with ongoing operations during construction. Recent efforts include the award-winning ARTS at King Stre...
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Walter Schacht Receives AIA Seattle Gold Medal
AIA Seattle honors Walter Schacht with its highest award, the Gold Medal.
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Fort Worden Building 202 Renovation
Adaptive reuse of an historic barracks building to create a community education center
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Spring District Phase 2 Breaks Ground
Construction begins on a mixed use complex in Bellevue’s emerging Spring District.
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Olympic College: College Instruction Center
New multi-disciplinary lab and classroom facility for Fine Art, Theater, Music and Health Occupations
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Damian Possidente
Damian is an architect with broad experience creating vibrant residential, academic, workplace and mixed-use developments for urban and campus settings. At each step of the design process, he seeks opportunities to understand and enrich the many layers of community that activate a site, and positive...
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Tulalip Administration Building
New administration building designed to consolidate tribal government offices and services, and holistically support the community.
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May So
May is a mission-driven architect with more than 20 years of experience leading urban mixed-use projects that connect people with each other and their environments to create sustainable, socially equitable cities. She is a skilled leader of multidisciplinary teams delivering complex, large-scale and...
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University of Washington Nordheim Court
Sustainable residential village for undergraduate students with inviting community spaces and integrated art
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University of Washington Maple and Terry Halls
Two mixed-use residence halls with linked amenities and public plazas within the urban West of 15th neighborhood
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Activating Young Minds and Resilience through Outdoor Learning
How can we strengthen outdoor learning opportunities to extend school operations and address limitations of digital learning models? Six case studies offer replicable strategies for schools to enrich academic performance, maximize resilient operations and foster environmental stewardship.
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Athenian School
Master plan and design of new classrooms and Innovation Center for independent college preparatory school serving grades 6-12
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National Nordic Museum Receives 2020 Buildy Award
The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) recognizes the National Nordic Museum with its top honor for new museums.
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“Housing Done Right,” Kapuso at the Upper Yard Opens at Balboa Park BART Station
The mixed-use development in San Francisco’s Outer Mission provides 131 affordable homes for low-income families, including 39 homes for public housing residents, along with community-serving ground-floor uses, a public transit plaza, and highly sustainable design that hits elusive Architecture 20...
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2021 Mithun Promotions
We are pleased to announce staff promotions in our Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.
Events
Return of the Salmon Spirit: A Conversation with Preston Singletary and David Franklin
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Advancing Park Design with Progressive Design-Build Delivery
Design-build delivery offers many opportunities to deliver parks projects on budget, on schedule and with design excellence by restructuring the design and construction process.
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Kapuso at the Upper Yard
Affordable housing and community-serving programs alongside a vibrant transit hub in the Outer Mission district
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Katharine Favret
Katharine has 20 years of experience with the design and development of built environments from affordable and market rate housing to university academic and student life communities, and K-12 schools. Drawing from her background in the environmental sciences, she approaches architecture with a syst...
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Horizon House West Tower
New high-rise building with 33 stories of senior living units over seven levels of terraced podium
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UW Haring Center Achieves LEED Platinum Certification
The University of Washington’s newly renovated Haring Center for Inclusive Education leverages sustainable design strategies to enhance occupant health and comfort, and improve energy efficiency for decades to come.
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Sean Cryan
Sean brings 30 years of experience in project management and focuses on project delivery and daily client communications. Through his work with King County on the Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Facility and other public and institutional clients he has experience with team coordination, the facili...
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Dorothy Faris
Dorothy has worked on a variety of public and private projects across the Western United States. Her ability to think across scales—from master planning large sites to specifics of construction details—informs her project work. She values collaboration from the beginning of the project, working ...
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Tim Mollette-Parks
Tim brings extensive experience delivering landscape projects of high-design quality in complex urban conditions. Tim’s resume of urban design and built landscape work is characterized by thoughtful design strategies that are highly conceptual, yet clear and flexible enough to endure a project’s...