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• Architects

  Olson Kundig

• Location

  Omaha, United States

• Design Principal

  Jim Olson, FAIA

• Area

  4990.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Benjamin Benschneider

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• Architects

  Olson Kundig

• Location

  Seattle, Washington, United States

• Lead Architects

  Olson Kundig

• Design Principal

  Tom Kundig, FAIA, RIBA

• Project Manager

  Michael Picard, LEED AP

• Project Architect

  Mark Olthoff

• Architectural Staff

  Yousman Okano

• Area

  35000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Nic Lehoux, Kevin Scott / Olson Kundig

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• Architects

  Olson Kundig

• Location

  Seattle, United States

• Lead Architects

  Olson Kundig

• Project Team

  Jim Olson, FAIA, Design Principal; William Franklin, Project Manager and Project Architect; Naho Ukeda and Crystal Coleman, LEED® AP, Architectural Staff; Charlie Hellstern, Interior Design; Cristina Acevedo and Irina Bokova, Interiors Staff

• Area

  10000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Benjamin Benschneider, Aaron Leitz

Seattle-based Olson Kundig has released details of their second-place winner from the 2018 Land Art Generator competition, set in Melbourne, Australia. The “Night & Day” scheme combines solar energy with a hydro battery, generating enough power for 200 Australian homes, 24 hours per day.

The St Kilda-situated infrastructure proposal doubles as an artwork and pedestrian bridge, with a flagship 5,400-square-meter solar sail suspended above the St Kilda Triangle in Port Phillip city. After sunset, further electricity is generated through two turbines capturing the kinetic movement of water released through them.

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• Architects

  Olson Kundig

• Location

  Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

• Team credits

  Tom Kundig, FAIA, RIBA, Design Principal; Steve Grim, AIA, LEED® AP BD+C, Project Manager; Michael Picard, LEED® AP and Wonsik Lee, Project Staff

• Area

  34816.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Nic Lehoux

With construction underway on their renovation of the Space Needle, Olson Kundig will shift their focus to a different American icon. The Seattle firm has unveiled their proposal as lead architect and exhibit designer for The Bob Dylan Center—a new museum that will also house the Bob Dylan Archive in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sponsored by the George Kaiser Family Foundation and the University of Tulsa, the center is expected to open in 2021, with groundbreaking planned for 2019 in the Tulsa Arts District.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected eleven recipients in its 2018 Small Projects Awards. Established fifteen years ago by AIA’s Small Project Practitioners, the program “recognizes small-project practitioners for the high quality of their work” and “aims at raising awareness about the value and design excellence that architects can bring to projects, no matter their size or scope.”

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• Architects

  Olson Kundig

• Location

  New York, United States

• Design Principal

  Kirsten Murray

• Project Architect

  John Riordan

• Area

  5428.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Kevin Scott/ Olson Kundig, Nicholas Calcott

• Architects

  Eerkes Architects, Olson Kundig

• Location

  United States

• Lead Architect

  Les Eerkes

• Architect of Record

  Olson Kundig

• Area

  693.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2014

• Photographs

  Benjamin Benschneider

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December 21 saw the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. The season is an excellent time to take architectural photographs in a unique and different landscape, with a blanket of snow providing a reminder of the delights of nature. Here, we present a selection of 10 cabins captured in winter by prominent photographers such as Tim Bies, Fernando Alda and Pasi Aalto.

Taking photographs in fog can be an experience as chaotic as it is enchanting. Although working with this phenomenon can be risky, since fog dramatically modifies the available light and the atmosphere of a scene, if you know how to take advantage of it, the result can lead to perfect photographs. Below is a selection of 10 images from prominent photographers such as Kevin Scott, Richard Barnes, and Koichi Torimura.

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Construction has begun on the Olson Kundig-led $100 million renovation of Seattle’s most iconic structure, the Space Needle.

With work taking place 500 feet above the ground, the project demanded a unique alternative to traditional scaffolding: a 28,000 pound platform surrounding the tower that was hoisted to a position just below the observation Tophouse.

New drone footage shows how this platform, manufactured by scaffolding company Safway, was constructed at 100 feet above the ground, and then lifted into place and secured. According to Century Project, the structure represents “one of the largest lifts of Safway scaffold ever completed and it’s one of the company’s biggest scaffolds in circumference.”