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• Aberdeen High School Earns National Design Award: Aberdeen High School, located in Aberdeen, Washington, has been awarded a 2009 American School & University Educational Interiors Showcase Gold Citation for outstanding interior design. The school was designed by NAC|Architecture. The jury, which comprised school administrators and AIA-member architects, noted that the design featured “excellent reuse of salvaged materials, which are displayed in a meaningful way.” NAC|Architecture thoughtfully incorporated reclaimed elements of the campus’s historic Weatherwax Building, which had been destroyed by fire, in its design of the replacement school. “This award belongs to the community, who rallied behind construction of a new school following the devastating fire that gutted the original, landmark building,” explains NAC|Architecture Associate Principal Malcolm Jollie, who served as principal-in-charge of the project. “We were inspired by the public’s passion to preserve and celebrate Aberdeen’s heritage in the new school.”
• Sarah Wortman Joins NAC|Architecture as Executive Director of Marketing: NAC|Architecture has expanded its management team by naming Sarah Wortman to the role of executive director of marketing. Wortman fills a newly created position that oversees marketing activities for each of NAC|Architecture’s offices, as well as marketing initiatives for the entire firm. Wortman will also be advancing the firm’s public relations activities and reinforcing NAC|Architecture’s branding message to the ever-growing national and international architectural markets. “Tying teams together that have complementary knowledge and skill sets, even when geographically dispersed, is crucial to the client who needs deep expertise that is well-integrated in the team as a working unit. NAC|Architecture’s national talent will be more accessible to each client at the local point of service delivery now that we have Sarah coalescing our interoffice teams,” explains Bruce E. Blackmer, FAIA, the firm’s president and chief executive officer. Wortman, who will be working in the firm’s Seattle office, was previously vice president, director of marketing and communications at VOA Associates Incorporated, located in Chicago. She holds a Master’s in Fine Arts from Northwestern University in Radio/TV/Film and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Missouri in St. Louis in Speech Communications with minors in Art and Marketing.
• Helena L. Jubany Appointed to Design Control Board for Marina del Rey: Helena L. Jubany, AIA, managing principal of Jubany-NAC|Architecture, has been appointed to a one-year term on the Design Control Board for Marina del Rey. Nominated by Los Angeles County First District Supervisor Gloria Molina, Jubany was confirmed by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. The Design Control Board is charged with approval of any exterior modifications or improvements to any parcel within unincorporated Marina del Rey, including repainting, signage and re-landscaping. Jubany, whose term continues through July 27, 2010, volunteers her time to serve at the monthly board meetings. She brings to her board role extensive planning and design expertise as well as her personal interest and professional experience in urban revitalization. Jubany also was recently appointed to a second five-year term on the City of Los Angeles Board of Building and Safety Commission.
• Coleen Monaghan has rejoined NAC|Architecture as a Senior Associate and Director of Interiors of the firm’s Spokane office. Monaghan previously worked for NAC|Architecture for 12 years, providing a full complement of space planning and interior design services to a broad range of clients. “We are pleased Coleen has returned to the NAC|Architecture team. She possesses an instinctive ability to embrace the client’s vision as her own and produce superior interior design solutions. Her wealth of experience and knowledge will play an instrumental role in meeting the needs of our clients,” says Steve McNutt, AIA, managing principal of the firm’s Spokane office. Monaghan is a graduate of Montana State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Professional Design. Currently, she is participating in designing interiors for Magnuson Hotels in Spokane, Washington; Whitman Clinic in Colfax, Washington; Cascade Medical Center in Leavenworth, Washington; and renovation of Patterson Hall at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington.
• NAC|Architecture and Opsis Architecture Recognized with AIA Civic Design Honor Award: The Academic Instructional Center at Western Washington University has won the American Institute of Architects Washington Council’s Civic Design Honor Award, its highest recognition. The award was presented to Executive Architect NAC|Architecture and their teammate, Design Architect Opsis Architecture, at this year’s award celebration. Jury members indicated that projects they recognized with awards “provide a seamless integration of community purpose with beautiful architecture and a transparency that allows for a connection to the environment and vibrant natural light.” “We are gratified to be accorded this tribute for creatively integrating the community’s need for inspiring space, with sustainability and demanding functionality in this technologically challenging higher-education project, and thank our colleagues at Western Washington University for giving us the opportunity to help shape the future of their campus environment,” said Bruce Blackmer, FAIA, president and CEO of NAC|Architecture.
• School Projects Receive National Recognition: Little Cedars Elementary School, located in Snohomish, Washington, has been awarded a 2009 Learning By Design Citation of Excellence for outstanding educational facility design. Judges were impressed with the integration of Little Cedars’ learning areas, noting that they are “at ease” with the rest of the building’s design and the external landscape. Judges also remarked, “The sustainable elements of this 68,000-square-foot school have been refined into an exciting learning solution.” Cavelero Mid High School in Lake Stevens, Washington, received a 2009 Honorable Mention from Learning By Design whose editors noted: “Deemed by judges as a ‘brave and successful attempt to reinvent a high school,’ the building’s flexible configuration accommodates a variety of learning models through the creation of four two-story, personalized learning centers. Each center has a multiuse lab, science room, teacher workrooms, conference areas, and other learning spaces, allowing each to function as a school-within-a-school.”
• Cavelero Mid High School Named International Design Award Semifinalist: Cavelero Mid High School in Lake Stevens, Washington, is one of 27 projects worldwide to be named a semifinalist for the 2009 WAN Education Award sponsored by World Architecture News. Finalists and winners will be decided by a jury of top industry experts. The annual WAN Awards recognize excellence in design on a global scale.
• sn-w’ey’-mn Building Achieves LEED Gold Certification: The Spokane Falls Community College sn-w’ey’-mn Building has earned LEED Gold certification, making it the first community college building in Washington state to attain this status as well as the first LEED building constructed on a Community Colleges of Spokane (CCS) campus. The original goal of CCS was to achieve LEED Silver; with significant contributions by the owner, contractor and the design team this project exceeded their goal and obtained 43 points – well beyond the 39 points needed for LEED Gold. The 70,000-square-foot building, housing the Business and Social Science departments, is the first new building on the Spokane Falls Community College campus in nearly two decades. The multitude of sustainable attributes integrated into the design provide a new, more environmentally sensitive direction for the extensive expansion currently underway on two of CCS’s primary campuses.
• Woodrow Wilson High School, Phase I, in Tacoma, Wash., has won an International Design Award in Architecture, taking Third Place in the Institutional Design category. The annual International Design Awards recognize architects and designers of interiors, fashion, products and graphics.
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