Earlier this month, Sian Roberts, FAIA, Claire Shigekawa Rennhack, AIA, PE, Tetsuo Takemoto, AIA, and Mike Jobes, AIA, celebrated the project kickoff for the Snohomish County, WA Food & Farming Center. The new center will bolster a vibrant agricultural community for Snohomish County and serve as a vital facility for local and regional farmers. As one of the first Progressive Design Build projects for the County, the program will include an indoor farmers market, a food processing component, and a commercial kitchen. We look forward to sharing more alongside our project partners: GLY Construction, Urban Patterns, HBB Landscape Architecture, Shannon & Wilson, Hill International, Inc., KPFF Consulting Engineers, Coughlin Porter Lundeen, and HWA GeoSciences Inc.. Learn more about the project here: https://bit.ly/3Maclze.
The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP
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About us
The Miller Hull Partnership is an architecture and planning firm rooted in environmentally-responsible designs that create a regenerative and inclusive future. The firm is widely recognized for public and private projects that actively engage the site and their communities. Professional services also include master planning, urban design and interior design services for spaces where people Live, Work, Learn, Gather and Serve. Miller Hull has received over 350 local, regional and national awards for design excellence, including the notable AIA National Firm Award.
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http://www.millerhull.com
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- Architecture and Planning
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- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Seattle, Washington
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- Partnership
- Founded
- 1977
- Specialties
- sustainability, modernism, and architecture
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71 Columbia St
6th Floor
Seattle, Washington 98104, US
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4980 N Harbor Dr
Suite 100
San Diego, California 92106, US
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This week, we joined Seattle’s environmental community to celebrate years of environmental leadership by the Bullitt Foundation, which has sunset its grantmaking activities. To say the Bullitt Foundation has influenced our work is an understatement, it has completely changed the trajectory of our firm. Our work with the Foundation’s Executive Director Denis Hayes began in late 2008 when the Foundation sought team members to design and construct a Living Building for its new Seattle Headquarters—the Bullitt Center. Since then, we have seen Denis’ ambitious vision transform our community, the built environment, and how we design. It is humbling to think of the impact the Foundation and Denis have had on this region and the world. Below is an excerpt from “Challenge & Change: Miller Hull’s Living Building Practice” which only scratches the surface of Denis’ and the Foundation's effect on our team. “The fact that Denis Hayes was the targeted client made things all the more intriguing for members of the team. Miller Hull Principal Jim Hanford, for example, unequivocally credits Hayes for changing his life. In the early 1980s, Hanford was an undergraduate student at Stanford University unsure about where to set his professional sights when he stumbled into a lecture where Hayes spoke powerfully, passionately, and persuasively about the future of solar energy. (Hayes had recently left his position as director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and was beginning his studies at Stanford Law School.) Hanford recalls knowing by the end of Hayes’ talk that he had found what he wanted to do with his career. Miller Hull Partner Ron Rochon, FAIA, who retired in late 2022, came at his appreciation for Hayes via a different path. Once the Bullitt Center RFQ came out, Rochon dove deep into research to get a better sense of this fascinating potential client, whose name and broader reputation were more familiar than his detailed contributions to the movement. Rochon’s quest led him to the local library, where he checked out and quickly devoured a copy of Hayes’ 1977 book, Rays of Hope: The Transition to a Post-petroleum World. He found the book’s messages thoroughly relevant and inspirational in 2008 (if the stated price of oil were adjusted), although it had been written more than 30 years earlier. Hayes was an environmental visionary — then and still— and Rochon knew that Miller Hull had the complementary qualifications to bring Hayes’ landmark building to life.”
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WIN Project Highlight: Central Public Library in Bend, OR. The building, designed by The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP, is “designed to speak to the young, old, studious and synergistic, the Stevens Ranch Library will have a space—and be a place—for everyone.” With mass timber occupying a lower carbon footprint than traditional materials, the design team aspired to maximize the use of wood in this 100,000-square-foot building. Read more on WIN: https://lnkd.in/g9dqQFuD See Miller Hull's #masstimber project portfolio: https://lnkd.in/gTzbgxvK See a recent article {8/6} on the building here: https://lnkd.in/gQzm96aa #WINProject #masstimberconstruction #woodinarchitecture Also on the design team: KPFF Consulting Engineers, StructureCraft
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15 Elizabeth is a finalist in AIA Chicago’s 2024 Design Excellence Awards. Lean and direct with an efficient and economical form, the project represents a forward-thinking approach to multi-family living in the heart of a former meat-packing district. Drawing from the historic industrial vernacular, we adopted steel and glass as principal materials to create an authentic curb appeal. The facade is composed of shifting corrugated metal planes, placed according to the natural light and transparency requirements of the units. 15 Elizabeth proves that dense urban infill housing is not only viable but can provide the connections to daylight and nature that residents need to feel ‘alive,’ with privacy and a sense of enclosure to feel safe and at home. Congratulations to our project team! We look forward to the final results this September. Click the link to see the 2024 project finalists: https://bit.ly/3YIp43q. Client: Ranquist Development Group Inc., Jodi Development, Campbell Coyle Architect: The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP (Design Architect) and Osterhaus McCarthy (Project Architect) Builder: BASEBLD Landscape Design: Osterhaus McCarthy and Groundwork Design Interior Designer: Jennings Creative Studio Photographer: Aleks Eva Photo and Last Decade Films
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The Architect's Newspaper recently featured Central Library at Stevens Ranch, our mass timber public library project in central Oregon. “The new library by Miller Hull, a practice with offices in Seattle and San Diego, will top out at 3 stories and be built at Stevens Ranch, a tract just east of downtown Bend. The building, Miller Hull shared, is ‘designed to speak to the young, old, studious and synergistic, the Stevens Ranch Library will have a space—and be a place—for everyone.’” Click the link to read the full story: https://bit.ly/3M0Hg0R Client: Dechutes County Design Architect: The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP Local Architect: STEELE Associates Architects Contractor: Kirby Nagelhout Construction Company Contractor (smaller branch projects): SUN WEST BUILDERS Civil Engineer: HWA Inc. Structural Engineer: KPFF Consulting Engineers MEP Engineer: Interface Engineering, Inc. Landscape Architect: Walker Macy Lighting: Blanca Lighting Design Signage: Mayer/Reed, Inc. Early Learning Environments: Plus And Greater Than Acoustics: Tenor Engineering Group Envelope: Morr Hershfield ADA: Studio Pacific Seattle
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Our Health Sciences Education Building received an Honor award in ARCHITECT Magazine’s 2024 Architecture & Interiors Awards, a program honoring outstanding commercial architecture and interior design. Situated at the center of University of Washington’s health sciences–focused South Campus, the project fosters interaction, collaboration, and creativity for students and the health professional community. The building has a “Culture of Care” at its core, featuring lush outdoor connections, warm wood and CLT ceilings, and versatile, tech-enabled learning spaces. Students from diverse health disciplines come together in this human-centered environment, enhancing communication and collaboration for better patient care. “Simplicity and diagrammatic clarity are allied with a regimented yet formally rich approach to cladding.” –Juror Congratulations to our project team! Read more: https://bit.ly/3SEkSxZ Client: University of Washington Architect & Interior Design: The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP Medical Education Architect: The S/L/A/M Collaborative (SLAM) Design-Build Contractor: Lease Crutcher Lewis Landscape Architect: GGN Civil & Structural Engineer: KPFF Consulting Engineers Mechanical & Plumbing Engineer: PAE Mechanical & Plumbing Subcontractor: Hermanson Company Electrical Engineer: Hargis Engineers Electrical Subcontractor: Cochran Lighting Design: Hargis Engineers Acoustical Consultant: Tenor Engineering Group Environmental Graphics: Mayer/Reed, Inc. Interior Design: The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP and Catalyst Workplace Activation Geotechnical: Shannon & Wilson Accessibility: Studio Pacifica Theatrical/AV: Dimensional Innovations and Cochran Commissioning: EEI and 4EA Building Science Public Art: Acrylicize Fire Protection: Coffman Engineers Wind Analysis: CPP Wind Engineering Consultants Vertical Transportation: The Greenbusch Group Photographer: Moris Moreno Photography
The Winners of ARCHITECT's 2024 Architecture & Interiors Awards
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Business Insider recently wrote an article on the benefits of single-stair apartment buildings as a solution to America's housing crisis. The piece highlights how this design can maximize living space, reduce costs, and open up more housing opportunities, particularly in dense urban areas. Brian Court, FAIA, Partner, was interviewed about our 1310 East Union Condominiums in Capitol Hill, which make the most of Seattle’s code by fitting eight units across six stories on less than 3,000 square feet. With only one stairwell and elevator running down the middle, this project would be illegal in nearly every other American city. "Small projects like this one are tough to execute even with one stairwell. Brian Court, a partner at the architecture firm the Miller Hull Partnership and one of the designers of 1310 East Union, said a second staircase — something like 200 extra square feet per floor — would have made the development financially unfeasible. ‘We're not trying to make buildings riskier,’ Court told me. ‘But we definitely need to do whatever we can and think creatively about ways to get more housing online sooner rather than later.’” Read on at the link: https://lnkd.in/gZmRq54h
The obscure building code that's ruining America's apartments
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Architectural Designer Tobias Jimenez will be presenting Informal Settlements: Building w/ the People, by the People, for the People hosted by USGBC California. This event explores the tension between formal architectural theory and the informal realities of daily life, highlighting how traditional methods often fail to address urban complexities and how learning from informal settlements can inspire sustainable and transformative design. We hope to see you there on Thursday, August 8 from 12 - 1pm PT. Register at the link: https://lnkd.in/gKB-d5cM
Informal Settlements: Building w/ the People, by the People, for the People
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A revitalized retail and entertainment hub in South Lake Union, Lake Union Piers is our first project to achieve the owner/contractor/architect offset component of EMission Zero—our initiative targeting the elimination of greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment. Our EMission Zero projects rely on purchasing carbon offsets to “zero out” what couldn’t be reduced through design. Since 2021, we have offset one-third of the embodied carbon emissions from 26 of our projects, totaling 41,360 tons of carbon. Lake Union Piers is the first project in which all parties have committed to sharing in the purchase of carbon offsets, with Miller Hull, Vulcan, and Abbott Construction collectively offsetting 100% of the buildings’ upfront embodied emissions. Vulcan and Abbott’s commitment to sustainability is invaluable as we work together to set a new precedent for decarbonization in the building construction industry. We hope that this collective effort inspires others to follow suit in creating a more sustainable future. Jim Hanford, FAIA, Principal was recently interviewed for the Puget Sound Business Journal on this significant milestone. Click the link to read the story: https://bit.ly/4doVzaZ
Vulcan's Lake Union Piers project notches an environmental first - Puget Sound Business Journal
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Construction is in full swing at the Central Library at Stevens Ranch in southeast Bend! This state-of-the-art public library will be 100,000 sf, 4-stories tall, and built with #masstimber. It is also being construction to #LEEDGold certification standards. Once complete, the library will be an all-electric building. It will offer a breadth of engaging spaces for the community to read, study, learn, and connect. Currently, crews are working on concrete work in preparation for mass timber installation. Stay tuned for more updates on this exciting community project! Owner: Deschutes Public Library Owner’s Rep: Redpoint Construction Management Architect: The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP & STEELE Associates Architects #construction #proud2bkncc #kirbynagelhoutconstruction #centrallibraryatstevensranch #deschutespubliclibrary #newlibrary #community #masstimber #masstimberlibrary #sustainableconstruction