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Redmond Library / Miller Hull Partnership

Susanna Moreira — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0000

In the heart of downtown Redmond, a new kind of library has taken shape—one that reflects the city's growth, diversity, and future-forward vision. Designed by The Miller Hull Partnership with local firm Steele Associates, in collaboration with Deschutes Public Library (DPL), the two-story, mass timber building more than doubles the size of the previous library and reimagines it as a vibrant, flexible, and inclusive civic space.

Australian Embassy in Washington D.C. / Bates Smart

Hana Abdel — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 03:00:00 +0000

Site - The Embassy of Australia in Washington D.C. is one of the country’s largest diplomatic presences. The design by Bates Smart stands as both an integral civic space and an enduring symbol of Australia. The embassy’s architecture, landscape, and commissioned artworks combine to embed an enduring relationship between Australia and the United States. The Embassy respects and upholds the character of the city of Washington D.C., completing Scott Circle and addressing the street axes to 16th Street and the White House and Massachusetts Avenue, commonly referred to as Embassy Row.

U.S. Embassy Guatemala City / The Miller Hull Partnership

Valeria Silva — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Located nine kilometers southeast of the city’s historic center, the new U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City consists of an 18,800-square-meter chancery building and support buildings with a below-grade garage. Working in collaboration with the Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) and the design-build team at B.L. Harbert International and Page, The Miller Hull Partnership’s design emphasizes the important diplomatic relationship between the United States and Guatemala and provides a first impression of the United States for many Guatemalans planning to visit the country.

AKRIS Boutique Saint Gallen / David Chipperfield Architects

Paula Pintos — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 03:00:00 +0000

Following a collaboration that began in 2018 between DCA Milan and the Kriemler brothers for the development of a new Store Concept, the first AKRIS prototype store opened in Washington DC. AKRIS is an international fashion house founded in Saint Gallen, Switzerland in 1922, its name is an acronym of Alice Kriemler– Schoch, the company’s founder. Ownership has since passed down the family and is now in the hands of the founder’s grandchildren, Albert and Peter Kriemler.

Riverside Main Library / Johnson Favaro

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 18:00:00 +0000

The new library sits on a city-owned 2½ acre property, east of Market Street on Mission Inn Avenue, within walking distance of the Mission Inn and the city’s cultural and business district. The two-floor library volume sits 36 feet in the air on massive concrete piers, creating an 8,900-square-foot shaded outdoor public plaza as the entrance to the phase two paseo. The new covered plaza will host evening performances, weekly farmers markets, book fairs, and other community events. A new City Archive, Community Room, and Friends of the Library Bookstore are at street level at the perimeter of the plaza.

Ridge House / Mork-Ulnes Architects

Paula Pintos — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 02:00:00 +0000

In the heart of the Northern California wine country sits a charming small town surrounded for miles by the quintessential Sonoma landscape of rolling, golden hills and rows of grapevines. Climb a nearby winding country road and one finds a scenic survey of the entire region. It is atop one of these idyllic perches that a young Bay Area family has carved out a peaceful retreat away from the demands of everyday life.

Collaborative Life Sciences Building & Skourtes Tower / CO Architects

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 20:30:00 +0000

As Design Architects and Interior Designers, CO Architects worked closely with Executive Architect SERA Architects to create the design for the Collaborative Life Sciences Building (CLSB), which embodies and helps achieve the goals of an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional campus. The building’s 12-story complex features 500,000 square feet of space for classrooms, lecture halls, and laboratories for research and teaching, including medical simulation laboratories for high-tech, team-based learning. The facility is conceived as an innovative model of interdisciplinary health sciences education and research, engaging students, faculty, and pedestrians through a concept of “health science on display.” The project has received LEED Platinum certification, and was named one of the 2015 Top Ten Green buildings by the American Institute of Architects’ Committee on the Environment.

Mashouf Wellness Center / WRNS Studio

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 17:00:00 +0000

The Mashouf Wellness Center at San Francisco State University is a new center of student life and an iconic campus gateway. Located on a prominent intersection at the edge of campus, the facility includes a mix of social, recreational, and competition spaces: a two-court gym, a large multi-purpose activities court (MAC), pools for both competitive and recreational swimming, a spa, cardio / fitness areas, a running track, a lounge, and meeting rooms. The Mashouf Wellness Center (MWC) will serve Associated Students, Campus Recreation, and the Cesar Chavez Student Center, as well as the broader campus community.

Library! at Bown Crossing / FFA Architecture and Interiors

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:00:00 +0000

The design for the Library! at Bown Crossing originates from a historic and natural context that uniquely links building and place. Panoramic mountain views are to the north, while historic East Boise Avenue and the Oregon Trail lie to the south. The site itself is nestled between pedestrian-oriented commercial development and an elementary school. With this range of community context surrounding it, the new library is poised to strengthen the physical and psychological connections among these elements by building on the unique history, natural ecology, and contemporary vitality of the area.

Cal Maritime, Recreation and Aquatic Center / WRNS Studio

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:00:00 +0000

As the only degree-granting maritime academy on the Pacific Ocean, California State University Maritime Academy (Cal Maritime) is known for cultivating leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators within the global maritime profession. With a competition-level NCAA gymnasium, ample training and fitness areas, and a 50-meter pool, the Recreation and Aquatic Center serves as the primary recreation and sports outlet for the Academy’s 1200 cadets.

Intuit Marine Way Building / WRNS Studio + Clive Wilkinson Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 14:00:00 +0000

As Silicon Valley evolves to compete with growing innovation centers in walkable, networked areas, Intuit’s new Marine Way Building (MWB)—the continuation of a larger update to their Mountain View campus—models a new kind of workplace design for the region. An antidote to the insular campuses still going up throughout the Valley, Intuit’s human-centered, urban-minded, deep green workplace anticipates a more sustainable, publicly-engaged development pattern, while providing its community with a place of warmth, choice, and connection in the here and now.

Chico State Arts & Humanities Building / WRNS Studio

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 13:00:00 +0000

This project elevates and makes evident the pursuit of the Arts and Humanities at Chico State. The program offers academic, performance and creative learning spaces for students in the visual and performing arts, English, and foreign language departments. Bringing this wide range of programs together under one roof — art galleries, a recital/dance/recording arts facility, learning labs and offices — offers a venue for interaction and discovery to a generation of students whose lives and careers are increasingly varied and multivalent.

360 House / Bora Architects

Florencia Mena — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 08:00:00 +0000

Perched above the beach at the edge of the tree line, this vacation home allows the dramatic Oregon Coast to take center stage. The design maintains sightlines from the sheltered forest to the open coastline with a minimal structure of glass and steel. Atop the two-story, transparent box, the copper-clad green roof is an elevated slab of native ferns and grasses.

Student Recreation Center Expansion and Renovation / RDG Planning and Design

Florencia Mena — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 19:00:00 +0000

This two-phased Student Recreation Center addition knits together an existing Physical Education building, and an existing and undersized Student Recreation building on an extremely tight site. Two new free-zone entrances were created. A Great Hall entrance accommodates pedestrian traffic pattern from east of site. While a Main Street entrance accommodates traffic patterns from north of site. The two free-zones not only create the main circulation paths in the building, but also implement formal and informal social spaces for students.

Fire Station 76 / Hennebery Eddy Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 09:00:00 +0000

In its simplest form, a fire station comprises little more than a dwelling with an oversized garage. At its most complex, it embodies the values of its community and functions as a highly technical machine for emergency response. That understanding, infused with aspects of storytelling and context, inspired our design effort.

Alumni Center / TVA Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:00:00 +0000

Designed to celebrate the legacy of past alumni and be the first stop for new inquiries about the University, the FordAlumni Center expresses a dynamic and forward looking environment while also allowing a link to the past throughan interactive interpretive center and a history library. A four-story, 60,000-square-foot building, the LEED-Goldstructure houses a large linear sky lit lobby and lounge, conference rooms and multi-purpose gathering spaces, aswell as office space for the University Foundation and other staff.

ASH + ASH / Hennebery Eddy Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:00:11 +0000

Ash+Ash integrates contemporary architecture with high performance sustainable design on an infill site on the northwest flank of Mount Tabor in Southeast Portland.

Mt. Hood Community College Early Childhood Center / Mahlum

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Early Childhood Center replaces an existing facility at Mount Hood Community College. The college lacked funding for the project, but leveraged an existing relationship with Headstart and several private donors to finance the new childhood education center.