Miller Hull

Angled view of a weather treatment station at night with purple lights glowing through a semi-transparent screen that covers most of the steel building frame, leaving various ground level gaps that expose the inner mechanisms and people at work.

2025 West Best Projects | Best Water/Environment

Source: Engineering News-Record

2-16-2026 | News

Rather than hiding behind fences, this wet weather facility sits prominently at the gateway to the Georgetown neighborhood, leveraging strategic site placement, architectural scale and integrated public art to communicate its mission to improve the ecological health of the Duwamish River.

The Theater of a Storm, a sequence of light-based interventions, tracks each treatment stage across the facility’s architectural forms, from intake to ultraviolet disinfection, rendering visible what would otherwise remain hidden.

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