News: Awards
Mithun Wins INawards Honorable Mention from IIDA Northern Pacific Chapter
Mithun received an honorable mention for their interior design at Federal Way Regional Library at Monday’s INawards10 held at McCaw Hall. Presented by the IIDA Northern Pacific Chapter, the team was awarded for their design excellence and innovation in the Design IN Public category.
Building upon the library’s rich natural setting, the design team drew upon principles of transparency, daylighting, and connection in order to visually open the building to the outdoors while enhancing the functionality of the spaces inside. The interior pallet used nature as an inspiration, introducing organic saturated colors and bringing wood elements into the space.
View all IIDA INawards winners.
Deb Guenther Receives 2010 ASLA President’s Medal
Congratulations to Mithun Partner, Deb Guenther for her receipt of the 2010 ASLA President’s Medal! Read the full story at ASLA.org:
Jose Almiñana, FASLA, of Andropogon and Deb Guenther, ASLA, of Mithun received the 2010 President’s Medals, a personal recognition bestowed by the outgoing president. The medals were given in gratitude for their tireless work for the Sustainable Sites Initiative, a partnership among ASLA, the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas, Austin, and the U.S. Botanic Garden.
Lopez Project Wins Best of Green Award from Treehugger.com
Mithun’s Lopez Island Community Land Trust project known as “Common Ground” has been chosen as a Best of Green Award winner in Treehugger.com’s Design & Architecture category for the Best Multiple-Residence Project. View a slide-show of all of the Design and Architecture winners or browse all the categories on Treehugger.com.
Taylor 28 Surpasses LEED Target, Brings Home a Silver!
The Taylor 28 project originally targeted basic LEED® certification—receipt of Silver certification is a significant achievement, given the project’s schedule and budget constraints. Reaching Silver level results from the exceptional effort the team made to find creative and pragmatic solutions that fit the unique circumstances of the site and building. The project also closely reflects the mission that drives the developer, BRE Properties; to provide highly desirable communities in which residents and commercial tenants can live and work, and to support a thriving green lifestyle within a dense urban framework.
Mithun wins AIA Seattle 2009 Commendation
11.11.2009 Mithun, Awards, In The News
This year’s AIA Seattle Honor Awards, held Monday night at Benaroya Hall, received 175 submissions — a near record number. Only twelve projects were recognized. Novelty Hill Januik Winery is one of them, getting high praise in the Commendation category.
The international jury gave equal attention to projects of all types and scales. Novelty Hill Januik especially impressed jurors with its merging of hospitality and production, and indoors and outdoors, even helping to preserve the adjacent wetland.
Read AIA Seattle’s full awards announcement.
The Estuarine City
07.20.2009 Mithun, Awards, In The News, Thought Bursts
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) recently hosted an open international design competition for ideas responding to sea level rise in San Francisco Bay and beyond. Mithun's entry, The Estuarine City, received an honorable mention along with 6 others of 130 competition entries from 18 countries. Mithun (architecture, planning, ecology) collaborated with experts from Bionic (landscape and planning), Regenesis (regenerative planning) and NSI (wetland planning) to find a solution to the 100-year 55 inch rise in the San Francisco bay tide.King County recognizes Mithun as a ‘Leader in Environmental Innovation’
04.16.2009 Mithun, Awards, In The News
The King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks announced 10 local leaders in environmental stewardship to receive their bi-annual Green Globe Award in a press release last week.
Winners will be honored for their role in improving the environmental quality of our world at the King County annual Earth Day Expo, April 22 at 11 a.m. KING 5 TV environmental specialist Gary Chittim will emcee the ceremony, which will be held at Westlake Plaza at Fourth Avenue and Pine Street in Seattle.