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FutureShack 2011

FutureShack 2011

by grouparch
Events
September 18, 2011

How can architecture help improve the quality of your city? Your neighborhood? Your home? How can you share your vision of living in the future? Part debate about how we want to live, part recognition of innovative architecture, FutureShack showcases creative responses to our changing lifestyles, across a wide range of building types, budgets, constraints and social agendas. Looking for the latest in residential design? Check out our FutureShack 2011 Gallery, featuring entries submitted by local architects and architecture firms from...

Seattle Design Festival 2011

Seattle Design Festival 2011

by grouparch
Events
September 15, 2011

The Seattle Design Festival aims to widen and deepen the public conversation about design in Seattle. Encompassing a wide range of design disciplines, the festival explores design as an active force that solves problems, contributes to innovation, and improves our lives. Founded and produced by AIA Seattle, the first festival is the product of a collaboration among ten non-profit partners. By combining forces to present ten days of concentrated programming about architecture and design, the partners have created a festival that...

Glickman Home Tour

Ralph Anderson House Tour

by OSC
Events
September 9, 2011

Docomomo WEWA is hosting a tour of the Glickman House, designed by architect Ralph Anderson in 1959. The house was completed in 1960 and custom built for Harry and Jeannette Glickman and their family. Set above a ravine on a wooded site in Seattle's View Ridge neighborhood, the residence appears as a piece of cedar-clad sculpture in a natural setting.     The tour is Saturday, September 10, 2011. For more information on this tour as well as other events hosted by...

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The 1 Percent

Step Up/Give Back – 1% at a Time

by OSC
Pro Bono
September 2, 2011

Brian Palidar AIA recently joined John Peterson, the founder of Public Architecture and The 1%, at the first 1% Design Advocacy event this August, hosted by Miller Hull and CAST Architecture and sponsored by Teknion. Presenters included John Peterson (Public Architecture), Trish Millines Dziko (TAF), Ray Schutte (Interbay P-Patch) and Brian Palidar (Grouparchitect). Photos by Chi Duong. The 1% program seeks to connect architects and other design professionals with non profits in an effort to better the built environment. You...

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The 1%

by OSC
Nonprofit
August 1, 2011

Grouparchitect's Brian Palidar AIA will be joined by John Peterson, the founder of Public Architecture and The 1%, at the first 1% Design Advocacy Step Up | Give Back event on August 4, 2011, hosted by Miller Hull and CAST Architecture and sponsored by Teknion....

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Ballard Food Bank

Ballard Food Bank

by OSC
Uncategorized
July 15, 2011

The economic crisis has shown us how fragile the line is between economic health and hardship. Economic strife helps us to see food bank customers not as vagrants, but as our neighbors, ourselves. Ballard Food Bank has always promoted this idea; its motto is “Neighbors helping neighbors.” To better serve their mission, Ballard Food Bank recently made the move from a cramped and inefficient space to a new location along Leary Avenue NW. As their architect, I had the pleasure...

Green Building

Green Remodel Strategies for Aging at Home

by OSC
Green, Remodeling, Sustainability
July 8, 2011

You're never too old for a green remodel! Universal Design addresses senior mobility and safety to make homes usable, efficient and appealing to a wide range of uses and users. King County GreenTools new brochure has tips and resources to plan a remodel for aging in place. You can download the Green Remodel Strategies for Aging at Home at: http://your.kingcounty.gov/solidwaste/greenbuilding/documents/green-remodel-aging-at-home.pdf...

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