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Design for Health: The Next Decade of Positive Change

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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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Design for Health

Mithun’s Design for Health initiative applies evidence-based strategies and research to the creation of beautiful, inspiring and healthy places.      

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Building Design: Design for Health After the Pandemic

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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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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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Chatham University Eden Hall Campus

First phase of development for a 388-acre satellite campus, home to Chatham’s Falk School of Sustainability

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National Nordic Museum

Museum and cultural center that celebrates the five Nordic cultures of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden

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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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UC Irvine Middle Earth Towers

New living-learning community for undergraduates along the central campus Ring Road

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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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The Evolution of Performance Metrics in Practice

An examination of the development and implementation of predevelopment baseline metrics.

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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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Coeur d'Alene Tribe Resort Expansion

Transformation of existing resort with new venues for dining, wellness and entertainment, as well as extensive landscape and sustainable improvements

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Mariposa Healthy Living Initiative

The Mariposa Healthy Living Initiative is a district strategy, widely-published best practice and ‘how-to’ guide to intentionally improve health through real estate, planning and design—recognized by the Center for Active Design, and as a CDC Healthy Places Planning Tool and HUD Policy Development and Research Practices Case Study

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University of Oregon Hamilton & Walton Transformation

Phased replacement and expansion of student life, dining and academic facilities, open space improvements and a new recruitment center to welcome prospective students and visitors

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Annie Wright Schools Boys Upper School and Gymnasium/Pool Expansion

New Boys Upper School and gymnasium/pool expansion for the preK-12 campus of a private school founded in 1884

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Blakely Elementary School Replacement

New replacement elementary school incorporating diverse indoor and outdoor learning spaces for students in preschool through fourth grade

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Weyerhaeuser Headquarters at 200 Occidental

Weyerhaeuser’s new office reconnects the company with a rich history, and advances its operational and brand transformation

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200 Occidental

A new mixed-use office building replaces a parking lot and mends a gap in the ring of buildings around Occidental Park

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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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UC Irvine Mesa Court Towers

High-performance living-learning community incorporating residential, dining and educational programs

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ARRAS

Mixed-use residential community within the emerging, transit-oriented Spring District neighborhood

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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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Liberty Bank Building

Mixed-use affordable housing in Seattle’s Central District, developed by a partnership between Africatown Community Land Trust, the Black Community Impact Alliance, Community Roots Housing and Byrd Barr Place

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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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Mithun Receives the AIA Northwest + Pacific Region Firm Award

AIA Northwest and Pacific Region names Mithun the 2017 Firm of the Year!

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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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Puyallup City Hall Block

Developed through a public/private partnership, this mixed use block incorporates municipal facilities, public plaza, residential and commercial space and public parking garage

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Harley and Lela Franco Maritime Center

Global headquarters balancing marine industrial function with operational efficiency on Seattle’s Harbor Island

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High Point

Federally-funded HOPE VI transformation of 713 World War II era public housing apartments into a diverse, internationally-recognized mixed-income sustainable community

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UW Children's Center at Portage Bay

New Montessori-based childcare center within an existing facility, designed to provide indoor and outdoor learning spaces for infants and children.

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Rising Leaders Discuss the Future of Design

Recently promoted leaders share some of the latest trends being incorporated in our work across markets and disciplines.

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Novelty Hill Januik Winery

Modern destination winery that showcases the winemaking process and presents a sensory experience to elevate the human spirit

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Holistic Design Analytics

VisionChronic disease affects the majority of Americans, and is also the most costly and preventable type of disease. By looking upstream to root causes in the places we spend our time, there is potential to improve opportunities for healthy places and behaviors. In the last decade, market research ...

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Zoomazium

Interactive "green box" designed to teach children about the biome in which they live

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High Point Parks

Three distinct parks within the High Point neighborhood provide stormwater maintenance, view corridors, and a connected, vibrant public realm for residents

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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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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 collaborat...

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A Year of Embodied Carbon

Mithun framed 2021 as the Year of Embodied Carbon to reaffirm our commitment to low-carbon buildings and communities, spark accelerated innovation internally and contribute decisively towards global efforts to limit atmospheric warming. This ideas post shares both successes and setbacks with the hop...

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Centering Health Equity

VisionMithun’s Design for Health research and practice initiative has tested design engagement, methods, and tools to address the social determinants of health, inclusion and resilience in communities across North America including Denver, Seattle and San Francisco. This work has helped shape neig...

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Lloyd Crossing Sustainable Urban Design Plan

A visionary sustainable master plan for a 35-block area in Portland’s Lloyd District

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Taylor 28

Mixed-use redevelopment of an infill site near Seattle Center, including reorganization of the street to create public gathering space and a pedestrian-friendly neighborhood

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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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University of Washington Lander Hall

Amenity-rich, urban living for undergraduates, with dining and student services to serve the 5,000-student neighborhood

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Teton Science Schools Jackson Campus

New campus for the first private accredited K-12 school in Wyoming, as well as residential environmental education programs

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Microsoft U.S. Offices

Renovation of seven floors within an existing highrise to create open, connected workspaces with diverse settings for individual focus and team collaboration

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Edmonds College Hazel Miller Hall

New academic building for STEM career programs, serving as a terminus to the central campus spine

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Sun Valley Redevelopment Master Plan and Healthy Living Initiative

A Choice Neighborhoods Transformation Plan (completed 2015) and Healthy Living Initiative Action Plan (completed 2019) support the inclusive growth of an isolated neighborhood into an mixed-income, health-focused community

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South Lake Union Block 25

Interior architecture and design within two new ground-up buildings featuring diverse work and amenity spaces for technology engineers

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Engineering Training Center

Training center featuring a dynamic layout and diverse settings for education, work and gathering

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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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Navos Behavioral Healthcare Center for Children, Youth and Families

Redevelopment of a mental health campus to better support long-term inpatient and outpatient care in a compelling natural setting

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UC Irvine Medical Education Building

A high-performance academic building designed to advance medical education curriculum

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Sanctuary Studios

Innovative wellness studio experience that balances the natural world with the latest technology to elevate wellbeing

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Keahuolu Land Planning

Keahuolu is a purpose driven, sustainable community that preserves environmental and cultural traditions, while serving the legacy of Queen Lili'uokalani

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Saltchuk Corporate Offices

New corporate headquarters uniting a diverse family of companies into a shared space with expansive views of the working waterfront

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How a Focus on Health is Transforming the Design Industry

Bert Gregory discusses the evolution of and potential for creating healthy places in this Urban Land Institute spotlight feature.

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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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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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UC San Diego Nuevo West Graduate Student Housing

Mixed use residential community serving graduate students and patients of the adjacent UC San Diego medical center

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Center for Urban Agriculture

Mixed use housing concept design that generates sufficient food, water and energy to fulfill residents’ needs and benefit the surrounding community

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Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias

Planning and design to restore the largest grove of sequoias in Yosemite National Park

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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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Mithun R+D

A look at the evolution of research and development at Mithun, from the firm’s early days to current initiatives and what’s next.

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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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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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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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2022 Mithun Promotions

We are pleased to announce staff promotions in our Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.

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1036 Mission

Affordable housing in a nine-story courtyard building for families and formerly-homeless individuals

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The Northwest School at 401 East Pike

New theater, dining and athletics building that enhances an urban independent school campus and the greater community

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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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Centering Health and Social Equity in High Performing Design and Real Estate

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Centering Health Equity Frameworks Launch

Mithun has launched the Centering Health Equity beta frameworks, in collaboration with the U.S. Green Building Council and University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Green Health Partnership.

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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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IslandWood

Residential environmental education center providing visitors with a deeper understanding of the natural environment through hands-on learning and outdoor field experience

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Advancing Sustainability: Health, Equity and Resilience

In search of the leading edge of sustainability innovation—reflections on Greenbuild 2016 and beyond.  

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Federal Way Regional Library

Library renovation and expansion to better serve the diverse communities of southern King County, and connect with its forested setting

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Rising Leaders Discuss the Future of Design

Recently promoted leaders share some of the latest trends being incorporated in our work across markets and disciplines.

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Goodwill Job Training and Education Center

New administration and education facility supporting Goodwill’s mission to strengthen communities, individuals and families through job training

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Seattle Bouldering Project, Fremont

Adaptive renovation of an existing warehouse building for a climbing gym and fitness center in the heart of the Fremont neighborhood

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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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Design Practice in Flux: Building a Dynamic Practice with “Next Generation” Designers

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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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City of Phoenix Edison-Eastlake One Vision Plan

Sustainable mixed-use district framework and housing master plans for three transit-oriented existing public housing sites in the Edison-Eastlake neighborhood east of downtown Phoenix

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Casa Adelante at 2060 Folsom

Affordable housing development overlooking new neighborhood park in the Mission District

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Lopez Common Ground

A workforce housing community designed for economic, environmental and social sustainability

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Seattle Fire Station 9

Replacement fire station designed to support quick response time, community outreach and resource-efficient operations

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Designing the Future of Education

Mithun explores design thinking with Leadership+Design.

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Integrated Environments for Healing

Located in a remarkable natural setting on the shores of Lake Burien, the new campus for Navos integrates innovative mental health approaches, a community-focused experience and connection with nature to truly support healing.    

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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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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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UCLA Olympic and Centennial Residence Halls

New undergraduate student housing community with study/innovation center and bridge to main campus

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Sea2City Design Challenge

One of two teams contracted to explore coastal adaptation approaches along Vancouver’s False Creek

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Mithun Elevates New Executive Team, Marking Fourth Generation of Practicing Design Leaders

Partner Brendan Connolly joins firm President Dave Goldberg and partner Anne Torney in guiding daily operations.

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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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Advancing Positive Change through Pro Bono Design

As part of our commitment to support social equity, Mithun provides pro-bono design services to underserved communities by partnering with local grassroots organizations. Learn about recent projects.

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The David Brower Center

Vibrant mixed-use office building that is home to environmental organizations and events, and enriches downtown Berkeley

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State Center

Master plan update and design of first two parcels for significant urban revitalization project including new mixed-use neighborhood

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Fairview Research Center

Life sciences laboratory and office building in South Lake Union designed to optimize research and energy performance

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Advancing Well-being with the Green Health Partnership

USGBC+ features Mithun’s work with Green Health Partnership to advance human health and well-being through building and neighborhood design.

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Newcastle Library

A new community library at the heart of a growing suburban village

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Brightwater Center

Environmental education and events center on the campus of a wastewater treatment facility

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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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How Can We Design with Communities While Apart?

The current pandemic has inspired new ways to cultivate resilient community relationships and engagement, even as conventional practices are challenged.

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The Art of Sustainable Design

Museums can use environmental performance to enhance their mission and visitor experience.

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REI Seattle Flagship Store

An immersive retail experience, instilling consumers with environmental values, a connection to nature and sense of adventure

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Navos’ New Behavioral Healthcare Center for Children, Youth and Families Opens

Mithun will join Navos to celebrate the grand opening of the new Behavioral Healthcare Center on Thursday September 24.  

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Northwest University Health and Science Center

New home for nursing and science programs, designed to support academic success and foster community

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Louisiana Children’s Museum Takes Learning Outside

Louisiana Children’s Museum presents a new model for children’s museums that supports resilience in New Orleans with expanded environmental education, innovative water strategies and collocated community resources.

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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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The Home Team Supports Resilience of North Richmond

As part of the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge, the Mithun Home Team is working with the North Richmond community to address local impacts of climate change and support regional resilience.

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Project Green

An international model for sustainable development emerges from an old water treatment plant site

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Outside-In and Inside-Out: A Seamless Campus Experience

Integrated site and workplace design supports collaboration and health at the Perot family’s new headquarters in Dallas.

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University Prep Commons Renovation

New multipurpose collaboration and dining space along the central circulation spine of an existing independent school serving students in grades 6-12

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Promoting Health through Real Estate Investment

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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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Mithun, Hensel Phelps Awarded New UC Irvine Graduate Student Housing Project

The $215 million Verano 8 residential community will house more than 1,000 graduate students and related amenity spaces in seven buildings.

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Sustainable Little Tokyo Vision

An inclusive neighborhood revitalization and Cultural EcoDistrict that establishes the community’s vision for sustainable transit-oriented development

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Seattle University Sustainable Master Plan

Sustainable master plan, coupled with a Major Institution Master Plan (MIMP), for an urban university campus

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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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Press Blocks

A new mixed-use development on the MAX light rail line in the rapidly transforming Goose Hollow neighborhood

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Washington State Parks Arboretum Environmental Education Center

Predesign study for a new environmental education center that expands the Arboretum’s educational reach and programming for children and adults

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Peninsula College Allied Health and Early Childhood Development Center

New academic building for allied health programs, including nursing and medical assisting, and early childhood development programs

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From Healthy Places to Equitable Inclusive Communities

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Housing, Health and Positive Change

Anne Torney speaks to Q Magazine about the future of architecture, building vibrant cities, and how Mithun is working to achieve positive change.

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Yesler Community Center

Full-service community center within an inner-city neighborhood near downtown Seattle

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Mosler Lofts

Sustainable mixed-use midrise development with streetscape design geared toward a designated Green Street

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Shilshole Bay Marina

Master plan for 50-acre marina, one of the largest in the Puget Sound, and implementation of new facilities, outdoor spaces and seawall restoration

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The Fast and the Furious: Design-Build Goes Big

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Suquamish Museum

Museum showcasing Suquamish culture, history and modern accomplishments

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Anne Torney Honored for Residential Design Excellence

2018 Marvin Design Award winner Anne Torney is inspired by affordable housing’s ability to create social change.

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Hensel Phelps, Mithun Awarded UCI Student Housing

The University of California, Irvine Middle Earth Expansion will open in August 2019 to serve expanding demand for on-campus student housing.

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UC Irvine Middle Earth Expansion Opens at the Heart of Campus

The significant new residential and student-life center introduces higher density housing, dining, learning and amenity spaces along the central campus Ring Road.

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Liberty Bank Building Wins 2022 Northwest + Pacific AIA Design Award

The design jury highlighted community engagement, public art and interior spaces as key strengths of the affordable housing project.

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Seattle University Jim and Janet Sinegal Center for Science and Innovation

Gateway STEM complex including a new 110,000 sf academic building and partial renovation of the existing Bannan Science and Engineering buildings

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999 Third Avenue Plazas

Renovation and retail addition to a terraced plaza in downtown Seattle along the transit corridor

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The End of Parking

VisionThe United States is estimated to have as many as two billion parking spaces to serve about 250 million cars, and parking represents the primary land use in many cities. As Americans living in cities continue the decade-long trend of driving less and owning fewer cars, one of the great challen...

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Designing for the Senses

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Mariposa Healthy Living Initiative Blazes a Trail

Mithun’s work with Denver Housing Authority demonstrates how equitable transit-oriented development projects can help cities improve community health.

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Erin Christensen Ishizaki

An urban designer, planner and architect, Erin is passionate about building physical and social community. Her collaborative, listening approach highlights well-being and inclusion for neighborhoods, housing authorities, private developers and local governments. Erin is a national leader and advocat...

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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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The Ohio State University Sustainability Plan

Synergistic solutions and design standards to enhance campus sustainability and drive towards carbon neutrality

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Summit Slope Park

Transformation of an existing parking lot into a flexible public park for community gathering and gardening

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Walking Mountains Science Center

High-altitude environmental education center that was the first school in Colorado to receive LEED Platinum certification

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Resilient by Design Selects The Home Team

Mithun’s proposal was selected as one of ten international teams to develop innovative community-based solutions to strengthen the Bay Area’s resilience to sea level rise, severe storms, flooding and earthquakes.

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Two Mithun Projects Win AIA Washington Civic Design Awards

New educational facilities for Bainbridge Island School District and Clover Park Technical College are honored for excellence in design and program resolution.

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Hunters Point Shipyard Neighborhood Studies

Conversion of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard into a new mixed-use neighborhood

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Wood in Architecture: Education Design

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International Biophilic Design Award for Louisiana Children’s Museum

Explore design strategies that reinforce connection with nature at the museum campus, honored with the 2021 ILFI Stephen R. Kellert Biophilic Design Award.

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Promoting Health through Community Development

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No Higher Stakes

Designing “with, not for” communities: Deb Guenther explores ways to adapt design practice to build people-centered cities from the neighborhood up.  

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Sustainable Design: What Comes Next?

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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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Expanding the Roster: The Design Paradigm That Prioritizes Equity, Community, and Justice

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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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How Legacy Can Maximize the Design Process

The idea of legacy can drive both the process and substance of a capital park design project.

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Cultivating a Design Culture That Nurtures and Inspires

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Nordic Museum Receives Civic Design Award

The new Nordic Museum wins a 2018 Civic Design Citation Award from AIA Washington Council.

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West Capitol Campus Historic Landscape Master Plan

Comprehensive plan for the design and management of the Washington State Capitol Campus grounds, originally designed by the Olmsted Brothers

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Learning from Reciprocity: Deaf-led School Design

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Navos Named Among Best Healthcare Projects

ENR Northwest honors Navos Behavioral Healthcare Center with an Award of Merit in the 2016 Best Projects competition.    

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North Seattle College Health Sciences and Student Resource Center

Seismic renovation and addition to a 1970s concrete college building, improving health sciences learning and social environments

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Material Health in Affordable Housing: A Team Approach

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ULI NW Center for Sustainable Leadership: Healthy Communities

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Mithun Receives the PSBJ Healthy Community Champion Award

Dave Goldberg speaks to the Puget Sound Business Journal about the firm’s deep-rooted culture of giving and recent philanthropic initiatives.

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Earth Day Turns 50

A look back at the history of Earth Day, its Northwest roots and continued influence on the sustainable design movement.

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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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The Student Housing Boom: Design and Development Outlook

Urban Land magazine explores the impact of changing forces on U.S. student housing markets, and the trends in design and development that are delivering results.

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Atlassian Austin Office

Interior architecture and design for five levels in a new ground-up building, including diverse work and amenity spaces

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Embodying Change

VisionThe embodied carbon emissions of building products and construction represent a significant portion of total global emissions—more than 11% annually. Designers are uniquely positioned to reduce this embodied carbon impact, but to do so, we must first integrate new types of analysis into our ...

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Integrated Design as a Path to Place

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Design-Build & Alternative Delivery Methods 101

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Blakely Elementary Receives AIA Education Facility Design Award

Blakely Elementary School earns an Award of Excellence in the AIA national design awards program for educational architecture.

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Accentuate the Positive: Climate Responsive Design

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999 Third Avenue

Renovation of public lobby spaces within a 47-story high rise in downtown Seattle

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Mithun Ranks 13th in Architect Magazine’s Top 50 in Design

Architect Magazine, the journal of the American Institute of Architects, places Mithun in the top 20 design firms in the U.S. as part of their annual survey.

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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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Tenaya Lake Area Plan

Restoration master plan and phased implementation strategy for Tenaya Lake area

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An Exemplary Model for Sustainable Schools

The Bush School’s new net-zero energy Upper School is the first Passive House certified school in the state and the first Salmon Safe certified school in the nation.

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Parametric Planting Design

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AIA Seattle COTE Design for Equity Sustainability Slam

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Mithun Designs Among Best of Year

Two workplace and education projects are named finalists in Interior Design magazine’s Best of Year Awards program.  

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Sustainability Treehouse Receives AIA Northwest and Pacific Region Design Award

The Sustainability Treehouse was honored with a Citation Award from the 2015 AIA Northwest and Pacific Region Design Awards program.

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Product Transparency: Evaluating Environmental and Human Health Impacts of Construction Products

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New Perot Campus Advances Health and Collaboration

The Perot family shares the inspiration behind and transformative impacts of their new Dallas headquarters.    

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Speak Your Truth: Design for Social Equity

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Design for Positive Change: Best Practice Gardening

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Why Seattle Needs a Downtown Urban Design Plan

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Body Parametrics

A Mithun R+D effort investigates how the body can be embedded within contemporary design utilizing emergent digital fabrication tools.

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REI Denver Flagship Store

Transformation of a threatened landmark building into a new retail store with connection to local parks, transit and waterways

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Mindful Design: Beginner’s Mind in Practice

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Mithun Receives AIA Upjohn Grant for Sustainable Design Research

The research grant will support efforts to expand the existing Build Carbon Neutral embodied carbon calculator, a free online tool launched by Mithun and partners in 2007.

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Western Washington University Buchanan Towers Addition

Addition and renovation of prominent student housing complex to support community at the eastern gateway to campus

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Washington State University Olympia Avenue Student Housing

New student housing for undergraduates of all levels, featuring a mix of unit types and gathering areas to unite the diverse community

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Layers of Listening: Community Voices in Design of Affordable Housing

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Featured

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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Social Equity: A Designer’s Perspective

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Landscape, Buildings, and Integrated Sustainable Design

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2019 Mithun Promotions

We are pleased to announce staff promotions in our Seattle and San Francisco offices.

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UC San Diego Mesa Nueva Achieves LEED Gold Certification

One of the nation’s largest graduate housing communities, UC San Diego’s Mesa Nueva has received LEED Gold certification from USGBC.

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2018 Mithun Promotions

We are pleased to announce staff promotions in our Seattle and San Francisco offices.

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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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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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Equity at Work

VisionBuilt environment design professionals are responsible for myriad spaces that contribute to positive or negative effects on societal health, well-being and happiness. Who designs the built environment (representation), and how they do it (equitable practice) matters. Improving the representati...

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Electrification of Buildings: Design for Decarbonization

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Decolonizing Design: Cross Cultural Collaborations with the Coast Salish Peoples

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UCSF Mission Bay Architecture at Zero Competition

2015 Architecture at Zero Honor Award-winning conceptual design for student housing on the UCSF Mission Bay campus

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Architecture and Design in a Growing City

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Getting the Most BANG for Your Design BUCK

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Hope by Design: Making Progress on Equity

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The Heartwood and the Seedling: Portland’s Pearl District Grows More Public Realm

Heartline’s landscape sets the project apart and ties it into the neighborhood as a whole.

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Sustainability Treehouse

Interpretive and environmental education facility that immerses visitors in the forest, and teaches about ecology and resource conservation

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Mithun Office on Market Street

Thriving workspace and local hub for events advancing sustainable design and positive change

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Events

Design in the Anthropocene Era

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Inhabit Modular Apartments

Design and feasibility study for modular apartment prototype

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Clover Park Technical College Center for Advanced Manufacturing Technology

New advanced manufacturing classroom building designed to produce graduates who are career ready, not just skill-ready

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Seattle Foundation Headquarters

New headquarters for a nonprofit organization in the heart of downtown Seattle

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Colorado Health Foundation

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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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200 Occidental: Sustainable Future of Historic Pioneer Square

There is nothing ordinary about the origins of 200 Occidental.  

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Featured

Louisiana Children’s Museum Wins 2022 AIA COTE Top Ten Award

This national honor recognizes the project’s integration of design excellence and environmental performance to deliver social, economic and ecological value.

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Mithun-designed Museums Honored Among 10 Best New Museums

Louisiana Children’s Museum and National Nordic Museum are voted among the top new museums across the nation.

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Immersive Experience through Integrated Design: The Louisiana Children’s Museum

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The Future of Regenerative Design

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Façade Generator

VisionFaçade Generator bridges the gap between Revit and other modeling programs, specifically Rhino and Grasshopper, to easily study façade patterns and articulation that are otherwise too cumbersome to implement or explore in Revit at early stages of a project. The Façade Generator expands Mith...

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Brix

A high-density mixed-use residential model for smart growth and urban living

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Winning the Stormwater Game: Green Infrastructure Planning & Design

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Coyote Valley Vision Plan

An alternative to business-as-usual suburban sprawl

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Affordable Housing and Sophisticated Design Merge at Mission Bay Gateway Site

1180 Fourth Street is hailed as an example of what affordable housing can and should be: decidedly urban, successfully dense, and architecturally sophisticated.

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Equity by Design: Bikes and City Building

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Seven Hills Park

Small urban park designed with flexibility to serve its diverse and densely populated neighborhood

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WASLA Merit Award for Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge: ouR-HOME

Mithun’s work with the North Richmond community to address sea level rise and climate change earned a Merit Award from WASLA.

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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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Photogrammetry for Design

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Group Health Redmond East Campus Master Plan

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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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Hunters View Master Plan

Master plan for multi-phase redevelopment of San Francisco’s most grim public housing into a well-connected, mixed-income neighborhood

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All-Electric Multifamily ZNE

VisionThis R+D project analyzes energy efficiency strategies, barriers and successes of all-electric, zero net energy (ZNE)-ready, affordable multifamily housing projects across three climate zones in California. Prompted by the pioneering success of five Mithun-designed Bay Area projects achieving ...

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Louisiana Children’s Museum Receives 2021 Buildy Award

The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) has awarded the Louisiana Children’s Museum with its top honor for new museums.

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Pratt Community (Birmingham Regional Urban Design Assistance Team)

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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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FarRoc: For a Resilient Rockaway Design Competition

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Central City Urban Design Guidelines

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Business Journal Live: Designing Seattle

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Design

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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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Workplace for Technology Engineers

Renovation of an existing building and landscape to create inspirational work space for engineers

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Home

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Large Technology Company Retail Store

Iconic retail environment for large technology company, designed to provide a memorable experience for employees and visitors from around the world

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Schacht Aslani Architects Joins Mithun

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Innovative Designs Enhance Seattle’s Historic Neighborhoods

200 Occidental and Ivar’s Pier 54 Renovation selected as NAIOP Night of the Stars Awards finalists.

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Mithun Merges with Hodgetts + Fung of Los Angeles

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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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Treasure Island Redevelopment Master Plan and Design Guidelines

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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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Events

The Great Reset: Research and Technology

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The Rose

This next-level green affordable housing demonstrates the possibilities for urban infill projects to promote equity and a sense of community together with healthy and sustainable lifestyles

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Maceo May Apartments

Six-story modular construction building on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay providing 105 homes for formerly homeless Veterans and their families

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JEDI

Our acknowledgments As a historically majority white-led firm, Mithun acknowledges the power and choice afforded our organization in an environment influenced by centuries of structural racism and other forms of discrimination. Mithun acknowledges our current responsibility to recognize and ameliora...

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Student Housing at UW Embraces an Urban, Walkable Setting

UW residence halls provide students with unique learning environments, social connections and improved connectivity to the city.

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Place-making at the Intersection of Architecture, Landscape, Ecology and Culture

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Mindful Living in the Sonoran Desert

The design of Miraval combines the desert’s rich human history with environmentally intelligent practices to enrich the award-winning spa experience.  

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Hensel Phelps, Mithun Awarded Third UC San Diego Student Housing Project

The $211 million Nuevo East Graduate Student Housing community will open in 2020.

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UC San Diego Nuevo East Graduate Student Housing

Mixed use community for graduate students including five residential buildings ranging from five to 12 stories and a student wellness and resource center

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Scripted Anthropometry

VisionAnthropometry, the study of the human body's shape and proportion, can be recognized as one of architecture’s earliest tropes. Expanding on this tradition, this Mithun R+D effort investigates how the body can be embedded within contemporary design utilizing emergent digital fabrication tools...

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Seattle Fire Station 30

New two-story neighborhood fire station in Seattle’s Mt. Baker neighborhood

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Enso Village

The first Zen-inspired senior community in the West

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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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Mithun Pier 56

Renovation of historic pier and flexible, high-performance workplace for a multi-disciplinary design firm

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Sanctuary Studios wins a GRAY Award

The prototype wellness studio design won the Commercial Interior Design category of this annual cross-disciplinary design competition.

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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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Oxford Plaza

Subsidized family and special-needs housing in downtown Berkeley

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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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Domaine

Multifamily housing community that integrates multiple buildings and pedestrian linkages to create an intimate sense of place alongside a major thoroughfare

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Two Additional Eden Hall Campus Buildings Achieve LEED Platinum Status

All four new buildings on Chatham University’s 388-acre satellite campus—including academic, dining, residential and commons facilities—are now LEED Platinum certified.

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Zero Net Energy Student Housing

The strategies and systems behind ESTUARY, Mithun’s 2015 Architecture at Zero award-winning design concept for the UC San Francisco Mission Bay campus.  

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JoAnn Hindmarsh Wilcox

JoAnn combines sensitive listening and agile problem-solving skills to craft innovative and rigorous architectural solutions that influence national K-12 and higher education design. For more than 20 years she has focused her practice on design for life-long learning, collaborating closely with stud...

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Westlake Park Children's Play Area

Children’s play area in Westlake Park to support families in downtown Seattle

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Wanapum Heritage Center Honored by AIA

Wanapum Heritage Center has received 2017 design awards from AIA Northwest and Pacific Region and AIA Washington Council.

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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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Perot Corporate Campus Featured in Development Magazine

Seamless integration of architecture and landscape optimizes collaboration and employee health at the Perot Family Offices.

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Mithun Home Team Shares Vision for North Richmond

The Mithun Home Team presents ouR-HOME, a collection of sea level rise projects developed with the North Richmond community, at the Resilient Bay Summit today.

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Featured

Chatham Campus Wins AIA COTE Top Ten Award

The AIA Committee on the Environment has named Chatham University Eden Hall Campus a 2017 Top Ten Green Project.

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Vibrant Campus Communities: University of California’s Expanding Student Life

   

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Team Anywhere: Atlassian Explores New Ways of Working in the Hybrid World

In the wake of the pandemic, Atlassian is embracing what could be the new norm, the office as a cultural hub. Committed to a hybrid work model and with a work force across the globe, the company prioritized social connection in their new workspace.

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Pop Blocks Development Plan

Design and entitlements for a mixed-use, mixed-income development plan, including multi-modal public street and significant public open space

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UCI Middle Earth Towers Wins Two DBIA Awards

The Hensel Phelps | Mithun design-build team earns multiple honors in the Design-Build Institute of America’s (DBIA) Western Pacific Region awards program.

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The Iconic Sea Ranch Lodge Reopens Following Extensive Renovation

The revitalized landmark features strengthened connection to nature and reimagined spaces including a new dining room, bar and lounge, café and general store.

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Seattle Fire Station 20

Relocated fire station to improve response coverage, reduce gaps in service, and introduce a civic presence in the Interbay neighborhood

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Mithun Leaders Join AIA College of Fellows

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) elevates Bruce Williams and Richard Franko to the prestigious College of Fellows.    

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Stateside Student Housing Achieves Fitwel Certification

New housing community offers health, wellness and amenity-rich living near the Western Washington University campus

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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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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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Roger Gula

Roger is a spirited and creative design leader and project manager at Mithun with an ability to create beautiful design solutions within challenging project constraints. His recent work has focused on corporate workplaces and urban housing, including developer driven mixed use and student housing pr...

Employee

Annie Rummelhoff

Annie believes that design should be impactful, that thoughtfully crafted spaces can improve health and wellness, enhance productivity and engage the community. With a passion for integrated design, Annie strives for excellence with each unique client and team. She has worked on a wide variety of pr...

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2021 Mithun Promotions

We are pleased to announce staff promotions in our Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.

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ESTUARY Wins Top Honor in Architecture at Zero Competition

Mithun’s net-zero energy student housing design for UC San Francisco Mission Bay receives the 2015 Architecture at Zero Honor Award.

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University Prep Master Plan and Campus Renovations

Campus master plan and series of renovations to enhance learning environments at this growing independent school

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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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Craig Curtis Joins Mithun

Mithun welcomes Craig Curtis FAIA as Partner and Director of Emerging Building Technologies.

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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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UCI Mesa Court Towers Wins Two DBIA Awards

The Hensel Phelps and Mithun design-build team brings home top honors at the Design-Build Institute of America’s (DBIA) Western Pacific Region awards program.

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Erin Jacobs

Erin is a landscape architect and leader within Mithun’s interdisciplinary digital design team guiding advanced data-driven design, visualization and research initiatives. Her built and theoretical projects—incorporating a wide range of educational, residential, workplace, civic and cultural pro...

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New Student Life Facilities Enable UCLA Housing Guarantee

Mithun-designed student housing facilities totaling more than 4,000 student beds help UCLA clear its waitlist and guarantee housing for all freshmen and transfers. It is the first and only UC campus to do so.

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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...

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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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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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First Hill Streetcar

Concept design for the 2.5-mile First Hill Streetcar line’s stops and plazas seamlessly integrates transit infrastructure and celebrates neighborhood character

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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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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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Career Ladder

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Gemenskap Park

Design converting an existing street into a linear park delivering valuable open space, improved safety, green stormwater infrastructure and raised speed table plaza

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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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Remembering Michael Sorkin

Craig Hodgetts shares a tribute to the talent and humanism of the late Michael Sorkin, a “voice of architecture with a purpose”

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Richard Franko

Rich is a dynamic leader with deep sustainable expertise and a passion for finding unique design solutions merging mission, place and people. His skill in designing places of immersive and experiential learning is elegantly expressed in his concepts for museum and educational facilities. His design ...

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David W. Goldberg

As Design Partner for a wide range of corporate, commercial, and educational projects, Dave is skilled at helping clients express their values and support their mission through integrated design. He has focused his career on immersive places for work and learning with organizations who care deeply a...

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Support for Our Communities in Need

Mithun contributes to community-based foundations in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle working to provide support and services for local workers and families most affected by the coronavirus crises.

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UCSD Mesa Nueva Wins Energy Efficiency and Integration Award

AIA San Diego and San Diego Gas & Electric honored UC San Diego Mesa Nueva for exemplary achievement in energy and water performance, health and wellness.

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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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UC Irvine Verano 8 Graduate Student Housing

New student housing complex delivering critical affordable housing for graduate students

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Navos Wins NAIOP Community Impact Development of the Year Award

Navos Behavioral Healthcare Center for Children, Youth and Families was honored with the Community Impact Development of the Year award at the 2015 NAIOP Night of the Stars Awards Program.

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Mithun Projects Selected as Finalists for NAIOP Night of the Stars Awards

1101 Second Avenue and Navos Behavioral Care Center selected as finalists for the NAIOP 2015 Night of the Stars Awards Program.

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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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Shaping Cities with Integrated Green Infrastructure

Green Infrastructure planning and design provides the vital link to creating regenerative communities.

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Suncadia Swim and Fitness Center

Modern recreation and amenities in a rustic setting

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UC Santa Cruz Heller Graduate Student Housing

New mass timber student housing community as part of the Student Housing West P3 project development

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UC Irvine Mesa Court Towers Wins Interiors Award

Mithun receives the top Education honor for UC Irvine Mesa Court Towers in the Contract 39th Annual Interiors Awards.

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Carbon Neutral Operations Since 2004

The firm has conducted third-party certification and offset of operational carbon emissions annually since 2004.

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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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Robertson Lane

New mixed-use development incorporating a dynamic mid-block pedestrian lane

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Mithun Partners with Techbridge Girls

We recently hosted a group of 20 students for a collaborative day of learning and hands-on exploration about STEM and the built environment.

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Events

All-Electric Affordable Housing

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UC Irvine Middle Earth Towers is LEED Platinum Certified

The new mixed-use housing community has achieved LEED Platinum certification from USGBC.

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Ideas

Placemaking in the Pearl

Heartline contributes to the culture and energy of Portland’s Pearl District with spaces to live, work and gather.

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Mithun at the 2020 Building Museums Conference

Join us at Building Museums to learn about museum planning at Louisiana Children’s Museum, celebrate National Nordic Museum at the Buildy Award luncheon and connect at the Expo Hall.

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Mithun Landscape Architects Earn SITES Accreditation

Debra Guenther and Jason King are among the first class of SITES Accredited Professionals.

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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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JC Letourneau

Jean-Claude, “JC,” is an architect who leads multi-disciplinary teams on complex public facilities with high performance goals. The high level of craft in his projects is the result a rigorous process – understanding the interwoven relationship between planning, design and construction facilit...

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Leading Through Listening

Tim Mollette-Parks reminds us to listen to the landscape, listen to the people who inhabit it, and to hold ourselves to the high design standards of the profession’s legacy.    

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Craig Curtis

Craig is a nationally recognized design leader with a focus on innovative, sustainable integrated design and the incorporation of emerging building technologies including cross-laminated timber (CLT), mass timber and modular construction. With strong listening skills and a highly collaborative appro...

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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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2016 Mithun Promotions

We are pleased to announce the promotion of new Partners, a Principal, Senior Associates and Associates in our Seattle and San Francisco offices.  

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Events

Beyond Models: Embodied Carbon Accounting in Action

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Westlake Avenue

Visioning study for upzoning a dense, urban transit-oriented site

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Erin Christensen Ishizaki Elevated to Partner

Mithun announces its newest partner, Erin Christensen Ishizaki.

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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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Pollination Innovation

VisionDue to loss of habitat and wide-scale use of pesticides, pollinators are declining at alarming rates. These bees, butterflies and hummingbirds play a vital role in maintaining the ecosystems on which our world relies. While there is general guidance for which plant species contribute to pollin...

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200 Occidental Honored for Sustainable Leadership

The 200 Occidental building receives the highest honor at Seattle 2030 District’s Fifth Anniversary Vision Awards.  

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Westlake Park Play Area on Display

Westlake Park Children’s Play Area will be featured in a new gallery exhibition presented by AIA Seattle at the Center for Architecture & Design.

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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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UC San Diego Nuevo East is LEED Gold Certified

All three phases of graduate housing development on UC San Diego’s East Campus, totaling more than 3,500 beds, have achieved LEED Gold certification from the USGBC.

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UC Irvine Mesa Court Expansion Tops Out

The $93 million UC Irvine Mesa Court Expansion tops out, reaching a construction milestone. Scheduled to open in August 2016, this 780-bed, 250,000 sf complex will become the new standard of UC Irvine’s housing community.

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Jordan Downs Revitalization Breaks Ground

The first phase of new residential construction at Jordan Downs in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles will break ground with a public ceremony on Monday, June 5th.

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Mithun’s All-Electric Housing Projects Featured in Urban Land

The firm’s experience with all-electric affordable housing projects supports the case for a fossil-free future.

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Decibel

A new model of sustainable urban housing affordable to the middle class

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UC San Diego Nuevo West is LEED Gold Certified

The second phase of graduate housing development on UC San Diego’s East Campus has achieved LEED Gold certification from the USGBC.

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Watershed Headquarters

New administrative and operations building for the Cedar River Watershed

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UCI Middle Earth Towers Wins DBIA National Award of Excellence

The Design-Build Institute of America recognized UC Irvine Middle Earth Towers with the 2020 National Award of Excellence in Educational Facilities.

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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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Events

Transforming Building Delivery for Positive Change

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Passive House for Multifamily: Achievable Solutions, Effective Results

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Win-Win-Win Urbanism: Sustainability, Equity, Resilience

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News

2015 Mithun Promotions

Mithun is pleased to announce the promotion of new Principals, Associate Principals, Senior Associates and Associates in our Seattle and San Francisco offices.

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Project

The Sea Ranch Lodge

Renovation and interior remodel of the iconic Sea Ranch Lodge

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Mithun Ranks No. 12 in 2018 Architect 50

2018 marks the fifth year that Architect Magazine has placed Mithun among the top design firms in the nation.

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Jordan Downs

Master plan to rebuild public housing units within a new neighborhood that integrates market rate units, community and retail spaces

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The New Landscape Declaration

Bold ideas from an unprecedented gathering of landscape architecture’s best minds and rising leaders.  

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Gallery

Market-driven mixed-use development focusing on street presence and urban design

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Hazel Miller Hall Opens at Edmonds College

The new interdisciplinary academic center for STEM and nursing programs is an exciting achievement toward the college’s goal of increasing student access and success.

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626 Mission Bay Boulevard North

Affordable mixed-use housing development with amenities serving residents and the broader community

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Mithun and Industry Leaders Call for Government Action on Climate Change

Mithun has joined with leading design and construction firms and organizations from around the world in committing to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5oC target, and challenging governments to do the same.

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Mithun at ASLA 2022

Our team will present multiple sessions about equitable practice and the design of open space for affordable housing that advances the vitality and resilience of urban neighborhoods. Join us!

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Employee

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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Events

Tying the Knot: the Uncensored Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions

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Beth Israel Memorial Chapel

Chapel and grounds connecting visitors to the cycle of seasons and the tactility of nature, as a ceremonial respite from the sealed, air-conditioned environments of Houston

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Douglass-Truth Branch Library

Library renovation and expansion that blends historic and contemporary architecture to create a striking composition that echoes social change in the surrounding community 

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A Living Treehouse in Rural West Virginia

Sustainability Treehouse is an icon of camp adventure, environmental stewardship and building innovation.

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Events

ULI Center for Sustainable Leadership Keynote

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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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Blakely Elementary School Wins A4LE MacConnell Award

Seamless integration of landscape and shared collaborative spaces are hailed as Blakely Elementary wins the top international K-12 educational facility planning award. Experience the campus via this video tour.

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Cascadia Lecture Series: Future Urbanisms

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Technologies for Sustainability

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Construction Begins at Portland’s Press Blocks

The second phase of development at Press Blocks will bring new apartments, work/live units, retail, commercial office space and a public plaza to the Goose Hollow neighborhood.

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Beyond the Buzz Word: Holding “Green” Accountable

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Casey Huang

With a passion for affordable and workforce housing, and mission-based projects Casey brings clients a combination of design talent and technical knowledge that results in inspiring and cost effective design solutions. Her strong contextual approach makes each project responsive to its surroundings ...

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Seattle University Landscape Wins WASLA Award

Mithun’s work with Seattle University earned a Merit Award from WASLA.

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Heidi Oien

With a passion for vibrant cities and a core belief that excellent design should be available to all, Heidi has focused her career on the urban realm. During her nearly 20 years of practice as an architect and urban designer, she has led a range of projects that revitalize or catalyze neighborhoods,...

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The EcoDistricts Protocol

How we live in cities is the biggest challenge of our lifetime.

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Erin Christensen Ishizaki Recognized as one of Urban Land Institute’s 40 Under 40

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Casa Adelante at 681 Florida

Affordable housing and community arts space in the Mission

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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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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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Model Resilient Zoning Code

VisionIt is critical that we make structural and systemic changes by 2030 to positively impact our climate. Zoning has significant influence. Most zoning codes in the United States are patched documents from the 1950s and 1960s—inequitable, climate agnostic frameworks that will not ensure the int...

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Christian Runge

Christian is a landscape architect passionate about designing at the intersection of nature, culture and human health. He has worked on ecological design and environmental education-driven projects across the country, from the Mariposa Grove Restoration at Yosemite National Park to the new Louisiana...

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Elizabeth MacPherson

Elizabeth is a designer who knows how to translate visionary thinking into action by anticipating clients’ needs and considering each step in relation to the outcome. She possesses a keen awareness of sensory experiences and how people move through daily life that enables the melding of interior d...

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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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Wadajir Market and Residences

Affordable housing and marketplace development for a growing community of Somali and East African immigrants, incorporating carbon-smart modular mass timber construction

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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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CLT Student Housing Prototype

Prototype student housing community using cross-laminated timber (CLT) technology to transform the way buildings are delivered and perceived

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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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Events

Don’t Be Stoop-id: Building Community at the Public-Private Threshold

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Antonio Pares

Antonio is an astute observer, and brings a passion for investigating the relationship of architecture and nature and how we define community in the 21st century. His creative ideas and inspiring design create a sense of place that poetically integrates and balances culture and ecology using sustain...

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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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1180 Fourth Street Wins AIA Housing Award

The American Institute of Architects names 1180 Fourth Street among top ten housing designs of 2016.

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UCLA Weyburn Commons and Paseo

New graduate student housing community on a strategic site linking UCLA's southwest campus with downtown Westwood

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Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sprague Butterfly Pavilion

New butterfly pavilion and multipurpose exhibit/event space advancing the museum’s educational mission and visitor experience

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UC Irvine Mesa Court Towers Opens to Freshmen

Mithun and UC Irvine celebrate the ribbing cutting of Mesa Court Towers, a new student life complex for freshmen.

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Future Dialogues

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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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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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Bill LaPatra

With more than 30 years of professional service in the private and public sector, Bill serves as design partner on a range of commercial, corporate, and higher education projects.  A versatile leader and designer who integrates public benefit with private enterprise, he offers particular expertise ...

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Thea's Landing

New mixed-use development sparking a renaissance of urban living on Tacoma’s waterfront

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1180 Fourth Street

Critically needed affordable housing and a gateway presence for the rapidly developing Mission Bay neighborhood

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News

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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Sansome and Broadway Family Housing receives AIACC Honor Award

Our San Francisco affordable housing project was among seven projects honored by the California Council of AIA.

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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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Portland State University Stephen Epler Hall

Student housing with smart technology and climate-responsive design in downtown Portland

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Simone Barth-Auster

Simone is a project manager with 19 years of experience in the planning and execution of higher education, civic and cultural projects. She is a skilled facilitator of large and complex stakeholder groups, uniting diverse perspectives into shared goals and community-serving built environments. Her t...

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Fairwood Library

Renovation and expansion to an existing library, one of the highest circulation branches in the King County Library System

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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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Events

Emerging Building Technologies’ Impact on Practice

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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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Seattle University Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons

Renovation and addition transforms historic library from book repository to dynamic learning hub at the heart of campus

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MSU School of Architecture Harrison Lecture Series

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Jesuit High School Chapel of the North American Martyrs

New chapel located at the Jesuit High School campus

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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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Washington State University Tri-Cities Student Union Building

New student union providing flexible social, study, recreation and event space situated along the Columbia River

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Events

The 3 C’s of Concrete: Carbon, Collaboration and Constructability

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Pacific Station North Receives EPIC Challenge Grant

The grant funds will support research into all-electric innovations including islanding and additional battery storage to improve resilience for the mixed-use development incorporating affordable housing, transit station and a prominent new pedestrian connection.

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National Elk Refuge Multi-Partner Visitor Center

Master plan and conceptual design study to re-imagine the potential of indoor and outdoor program and operations through the expansion of the existing 8,000 sf Visitor Center, shared by the Bridger-Teton National Forest, Grand Teton Association, Grand Teton National Park, National Elk Refuge, Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce and Wyoming Game & Fish

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AIA|LA COTE Honor Award for Mesa Court Towers

The UC Irvine Mesa Court Towers student life community wins the top sustainability award from AIA Los Angeles.

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Four Mithun Projects Win AIA Seattle Awards

Diverse Mithun projects located across the nation receive accolades in the 2017 AIA Seattle Honor Awards program.

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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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Events

Coming to Your Senses: Engaging Museum Visitors on a Multi-Sensory Level

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National Nordic Museum Wins AAM Sustainability Award

The American Association of Museums recognized National Nordic Museum with the 2020 Sustainability Excellence Award for New Construction

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Debra Guenther Selected for LAF Innovation and Leadership Fellowship

Mithun’s landscape architecture practice leader is among six individuals selected by the Landscape Architecture Foundation for the prestigious fellowship.

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Events

Optimizing Facades for Building Performance: Light, HVAC, Energy & Materials

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NE 85th Station Area Plan Envisions Innovative, Inclusive Transit-Connected Growth in Kirkland

Kirkland City Council adopts resolution for innovative, inclusive transit-connected growth in NE 85th Station Area Preferred Plan Resolution

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Yesler Family Housing Breaks Ground

Construction has begun on 156 units of affordable, family-sized housing with childcare and community-serving retail space at the nexus between Seattle’s Yesler Terrace, Little Saigon and Central District.

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Events

Planning Tools: Holistic Needs and Opportunities Assessment

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Anthem on 12th Workforce Housing Achieves LEED Gold

The first private development of the Yesler Terrace revitalization, Anthem on 12th offers healthy and sustainable housing for an urban workforce.  

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What Student Housing Looks Like Today

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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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Peninsula College Library Media Center

New 26,700 sf library and media access center, and 7,500 sf faculty administration building that frame a new gateway to campus

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Perot Family Offices is featured in Urban Land

The Perot Companies’ new Dallas headquarters capitalizes on design to connect businesses, spark collaboration and advance employee health along the banks of Turtle Creek.  

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A Net Zero Positive Project

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Zygmunt Arendt House

Supportive housing for long-term homeless seniors set within a neighborhood of carefully tended Victorian row houses

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Transparency in Coverage

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Weyerhaeuser Headquarters Opens in Seattle

The grand opening of Weyerhaeuser’s headquarters represents a milestone for the century-old company and the Pioneer Square neighborhood.  

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Robert Frost Auditorium

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Doug Leigh

Doug is an exceptional senior project manager, with 30+ years of architecture and planning experience on complex projects that involve public and private partnerships. He has a deep understanding of financial, technical, and design opportunities and constraints, resulting in strategic solutions for ...

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A Living Culture Connected to the Land

The design of Wanapum Heritage Center honors the inextricable relationship between the natural world and its people.

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Tod Curtis

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Chi Aoyama

Chi is a designer with more than 15 years of practice spanning a wide range of project types and scales—institutional, academic, workplace, commercial programs and mixed-use complexes up to two million square-feet in size. He has completed projects across the United States and internationally, wit...

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Greens to Green Homes

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Is Mass Timber the Future?

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Wisdom and Whimsey

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Kristen Belt

Kristen has more than 20 years of experience working towards the development of sustainable urban places, with a focus on affordable, multifamily housing. Her work is informed by the existing urban and ecological context, engagement with the extended community, and green design principles. Kristen...

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Broadway Housing Project Wins CNU Charter Award

San Francisco’s Broadway affordable housing among winners that “make a difference in people’s lives.”  

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Events

Building Equitable Community: An Exploration of San Francisco Affordable Housing Developments

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Conservation Approaches to Historic Buildings

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Robert Frost Auditorium Wins Two Preservation Awards

The iconic auditorium at Culver City High School has been recognized for excellence in historic preservation by local and statewide award programs.

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Mithun Earns JUST Label

Participation in the JUST program underscores Mithun’s commitment to social equity and continuous improvement.

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Careers

At Mithun, our design has purpose—to create positive change in people’s lives. Inspired by this mission, we work in interdisciplinary teams to envision and create transformative places across the nation. It’s an exciting process—uniquely collaborative, compelled by optimism and curiosity, en...

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Workplace Acoustics a Top Priority at Microsoft Offices

Architectural Record turns to Bill LaPatra and Microsoft’s renovated Bellevue offices for best practices in workplace acoustics.

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Michael O’meara

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John Ellis

John is an architect, urban designer and teacher whose more than 40 years of experience embrace a wide range of projects. As an Anglo-Californian, John brings his early experiences in England to his many years as a Bay Area resident. Before joining Mithun, John was Director of Urban Design with Dani...

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Live on Sunset

Mixed-use commercial and residential development

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Demographic Trends Shaping New Developments

Mithun’s Anne Torney was recently quoted in Real Estate Forum regarding demographic trends and their impact on new projects.

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Terry and Maple Halls Bring Connectivity, Activity to University of Washington’s West Campus

Terry and Maple residence halls provide students with unique learning environments, social connections and improved connectivity to the city.

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Hunters View Block 4

Redevelopment of San Francisco's distressed Hunters View public housing into a thriving, mixed-income community

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Anthem on 12th

New mixed-use affordable housing as part of Seattle’s Yesler Terrace Redevelopment

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Grand Opening of Sansome and Broadway Family Housing

Grand Opening of Sansome and Broadway Family Housing with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Jane Kim.

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Sansome and Broadway Family Housing

Housing for low-income and formerly homeless families on a former Embarcadero Freeway ramp site

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National Recognition for Denver’s Sun Valley

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded the Sun Valley EcoDistrict one of five Choice Neighborhood Implementation Grants nationwide.    

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Take Action on Inclusive, Sustainable Urbanism

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Addressing the Immigration and Homeless Crises

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2017 Mithun Promotions

We are pleased to announce staff promotions in our Seattle and San Francisco offices.  

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The End of Walking?

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Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Plant

State-of-the art wastewater treatment facility using membrane bioreactors to provide enhanced water quality, and offering diverse educational opportunities

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Darrington Wood Innovation Center to Break Ground in 2021

Mithun is designing the mass-timber production facility and hub for innovative wood product manufacturing.

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Events

Graduate Student Housing: Bringing More Life to the Living Experience

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Mithun Introduces Paid Parental Leave Benefit

The firm’s new gender-neutral paid leave plan supports employees and their families.  

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Social Cohesion: The Root of Resilience

Mithun explores the growing importance of placemaking and human relationships in cities’ emergency planning.  

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Navos Outpatient Building is LEED Silver Certified

The building incorporates diverse programs, clinical care and opportunities to engage with nature as part of the healing process.  

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Events

Decarbonizing and Electrifying Multifamily Housing

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UC Irvine Mesa Court Towers Wins Sustainability Award

Mesa Court Towers earns a 2017 Best Practices Award for exemplary sustainable design among California university projects.

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Events

EcoDistricts: Denver’s New Model of Urban Regeneration

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Evolving Urban Industrial Areas for Equity and Resilience

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City of Boulder Legacy Charrette

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2021 Sustainability Summit

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Collective Impact 2021

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Chatham University Eden Hall Campus is LEED Platinum Certified

The first phase of development at Chatham University’s Eden Hall Campus has achieved LEED Platinum certification from the USGBC.

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Events

Future of SoMa & Tenderloin: Evolution of a Neighborhood

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Mariel Steiner

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A Model Zoning Code for Resilient Communities

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The Bush School New Upper School

New deep green classroom and commons building for a private K-12 school

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UCSD Nuevo West Student Housing Breaks Ground

Construction begins on UC San Diego’s new housing community for graduate students and university medical center patients and their families.

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Micro to Macro: Campus Sustainability from the Ground Up

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