Featured Ideas
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 hope that our process might serve as a replicable model, resource and inspiration to other organizations.
Posted: 11.05.2021
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Sea2City: Decolonizing Design Practice
Key to the Mithun+One team approach to the Sea2City Design Challenge is the integration of First Nations knowledge and values through a process centering decolonization. This ideas post focuses on our process and reflections, and is the first in a series about the collaborative effort to create a vision and pilot projects for coastal adaptation at Vancouver’s False Creek.
03.12.2023
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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.
11.21.2022
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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.
11.18.2022
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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.
11.17.2022
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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.
07.19.2022
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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 better schools is the missing link.
04.26.2022
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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.
05.19.2021
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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.
05.19.2021
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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 Kirkland, WA, that support resilient, inclusive communities.
05.18.2021
