6/2026: AIA National Conference – Parco Mixed-Used Development: Ben Dalton
9-5-2022 | Events
Associates, Heather Ruszczyk and Zubin Rao will be speaking about “Fire Station Planning for Compact Sites,” at the 2022 F.I.E.R.O. Station Design Symposium.
It can be a challenge to build a fire station that’s safe, functional, and productive while being a good steward of your community’s resources. When you attend the F.I.E.R.O. Fire Station Design Symposium you will experience two and a half days of informative sessions presented by subject matter experts. Throughout the symposium, sessions are presented on a variety of topics related to all aspects of the fire station construction process including identifying your department’s needs, selecting an architect, selecting a site, deciding whether to renovate or rebuild, what to expect when planning and designing the project, health and safety considerations, how to harness community support, and more!
Heather works to bring purposeful placemaking, beauty, environmental stewardship and authentic sustainable practices to her project work, tracing these themes from a macro to micro scale through the design. “Well-designed buildings and spaces have a net-positive effect on communities, individual lives and the environment,” she says, a truth that drives her full investment in each and every project to…
Zubin sees architecture as a humanities discipline. “You get to think broadly about so many different things — how people use spaces, history, visual culture, how materials come together, code issues…” He gravitates towards the intellectual diversity of the profession, and delights in finding elegant solutions that solve multiple project issues simultaneously. Typically in the role…
Smack dab in the middle of Seattle is a freshwater lake known as Lake Union. The South Lake…
12-5-2024 | News
By Journal Staff Seattle design firm Wittman Estes has created Duwamish Crossings, which it calls a…
8-13-2020 | News
By Chris Hellstern, AIA, LFA, LEED AP BD+C, CDT Living Building Challenge Services Director On this…
4-23-2018 |
Congratulations to Anton Dekom for receiving the AIA Seattle Committee Award as co-chair of the AIA…
5-7-2019 | News
The Georgia Institute of Technology has selected the team of Lord Aeck Sargent and The Miller…
3-15-2016 | News
Decades of Design: How the Past 100 Years Have Influenced the Current State of Design ENVIRONMENTALISM…
9-20-2021 | News