LMN Architects

Praise Worthy. The Architect's Newspaper has announced the Editors’ Picks for AN’s 2024 Best of Design Awards, including the recently completed Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion designed by LMN Architects in collaboration with Thinc Design. “Choosing winners and finalists was decidedly tough among the volume of applications. After many Zoom sessions and deliberations, the jury (featured below) considered context, culture, scale, and rigor among other factors.. here are some of the results of such conversations.” To learn more about the winners, visit The Architect’s Newspaper: https://lnkd.in/gCG2amBW

We are extremely pleased to announce the Seattle Convention Center Summit building has been selected as the winner in the Large Civic/Cultural category for the 2024 Metropolis Magazine Planet Positive Awards. “A 1.5-million-square-foot, $2 billion, LEED Platinum addition to the Seattle Convention Center, the Summit building occupies four city blocks in the heart of the city’s urban core. Featuring a vertically stacked program, it is the world’s first high-rise convention center. Utility-cost and carbon savings were integral to the overall sustainability strategies at this scale. Relying first on an above-code, efficient envelope, Summit achieves further energy savings with radiant floors (requiring 99 miles of tubing), heat recovery, a 75-kilowatt solar array, and advanced building control features. Stormwater runoff is collected from the massive roof and site, filtered, and stored within cisterns holding up to 400,000 gallons, reused in flush fixtures and for irrigation. Reusing stormwater and installing high-performance fixtures results in a more than 50 percent indoor potable water use reduction.” Now in its fourth year, the Planet Positive Awards celebrate the most innovative projects and products from around the world that benefit people and the planet, as well as firms and professionals leading the way to a better built environment. For more information, visit Metropolis Magazine: https://lnkd.in/gVm9WG6a

Engineering News-Record has announced the 2024 Project of the Year finalists, and we are pleased to report Field Arts & Events Hall designed by LMN Architects in collaboration with Mortenson is one of the top 3 finalists. Field Arts & Events Hall, the first of three buildings dedicated to the arts, culture and science planned for the Port Angeles Waterfront Center, provides a new performing arts space and community gathering place on the city’s waterfront. The building is designed to specifically support numerous community arts organizations and aspires to enhance the broader creative community of Port Angeles. The Project of the Year will be announced later in the week and featured in the December issue of ENR Northwest. To learn more about the program and the finalists, visit ENR: https://lnkd.in/gQim-Ahk

We’re thrilled to announce the Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion has been named a 2024 Interior Design Magazine Best of Year finalist! The project designed in collaboration with Thinc Design is one of 4 finalists under the environmental impact category. Guided by the mission to inspire conservation of the marine environment, the project embodies interconnectivity and sustainability, integrating the public realm, interior spaces, and aquarium exhibits in an extroverted gesture to public engagement. To learn more about the Best of Year finalists, visit Interior Design Magazine: https://lnkd.in/gXcq52X6

Four Must-See Parks This Fall Herald a New Golden Age. The New York Times reviews some of the most ambitious parks opening around the United States, including the new Seattle Waterfront Park and the Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion designed by LMN Architects in collaboration with Field Operations. “Though the full 20 acres won’t open until early spring, an acrobatic section of the park welcomed the public Oct. 4. The Overlook Walk rises in a pair of curved stairways where the promenade takes a sharp turn inland around a new Ocean Pavilion serving the Seattle Aquarium. As visitors ascend a 110-foot bluff, culminating at the city’s famous Pike Place Market, vistas of downtown skyscrapers and the cranes of the container port open up, as does a moody expanse of Puget Sound (now increasingly referred to as the Salish Sea) that even on an inevitable gray day can offer views of mist-wrapped islands and mountains below a pewter plane of clouds.” To read the article, visit The New York Times: https://lnkd.in/ggQGzYDP

LMN Architects has been distinguished by the The Chicago Athenaeum Museum for Architecture and Design awards program! We received two American Architecture Awards for the Interactive Learning Pavilion UC Santa Barbara and The Buxton Center Bainbridge Performing Arts, and an honorable mention for the Hines Seattle Headquarters. Now celebrating the 29th year, The American Architectural Awards are one of the nation’s highest and most prestigious distinguished building awards program that honor cutting-edge design in the United States. From a list of 500 projects, the jury selected the best projects recently completed in the United States. Congratulations to all the winners! To learn more, visit The Chicago Athenaeum portal: https://lnkd.in/gSZqs4P7

Last week LMN Architects was distinguished at the IIDA Northern Pacific Chapter awards with an award and an honorable mention. The INawards honor excellence in interior design and interior architecture projects that represent achievement in creativity and innovation across the Northern Pacific Chapter. Under the INpublic category The Buxton Center Bainbridge Performing Arts received the top award, and the Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion received an honorable mention. Congratulations to all the winners! For more information, visit the IIDA portal: https://lnkd.in/gENUkgbt

We are pleased to celebrate that last week LMN Architects was recognized with two awards at the AIA Seattle Honor Awards. The program provides an opportunity for the design community to share and celebrate its achievements both among practitioners and with the community at-large. From 118 submissions, the jury chose 17 award winners from three submission categories – Built, Conceptual, and Research & Innovation. The Shop received an Honorable Mention under the Research & Innovation category and Founders Hall, UW Foster School of Business received the very prestigious Energy in Design Award under the Built category. Congratulations to all the 2024 Honor Award winners! To learn more, visit the AIA Seattle portal: https://lnkd.in/gkTJKUR3

We are honored to have worked with Microsoft and its partners to build the award-winning East Campus in Redmond. The campus has been named the Sustainable Development of the Year at the 2024 Night of the Stars Awards event, hosted by the NAIOP of Washington state. The NAIOPWA Night of the Stars program recognizes the best commercial real estate projects in the state. Our project – the new East Campus -- reflects Microsoft’s commitment to employees and the Puget Sound community. It is designed to enhance productivity and create optimal spaces for hybrid work, thoughtfully built with a focus on sustainability, accessibility, wellness and fostering community. Congratulations to the team who made this innovative project possible! For more information, visit NAIOP: https://lnkd.in/gPp5iy9b

The Daily Journal of Commerce reports on the construction progress of the Undergraduate Academic Building at the University of California, Berkeley designed by LMN Architects with TEF Design. “A new undergraduate academic building, designed by Seattle architecture firm LMN, has topped out at the University of California, Berkeley. The building is the first mass timber project to be built at the campus. It will be five stories and L-shaped.” To read the article, visit The Daily Journal of Commerce: https://lnkd.in/gCpfKFjt