Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects - Recognition http://www.oskaarchitects.com/ Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects OSKA and the Lightcatcher building are featured on The Stranger's Slog <p>The post, by Jen Graves, highlights the opening exhibition featuring artist John Grade. Bloom: The Elephant Bed, reflects the artist’s fascination with microscopic organisms whose limestone shells formed the chalky White Cliffs of Dover. The post includes a video of the artist and his team installing a forest of bell-shaped sculptures in the Lightcatcher’s new 26-foot high gallery. <a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/11/05/whatcom-museum-to-open-with-elephant-beds">View the post and video at the Slog.</a></p> http://www.oskaarchitects.com/Recognition/1465 Outpost and the Rolling Huts have been awarded 2009 American Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design <p>On October 30, the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd., announced sixty-four new distinguished buildings, interiors, urban planning projects, and landscape architecture selected this year in the Museum’s prestigious “American Architecture Awards®” program for 2009.</p> <p>Established in the 1990s, the awards program honors and celebrates the most outstanding new achievements and innovation for new architecture designed and built in the United States by leading American and international architecture firms practicing in the USA.</p> <p>“The American Architecture Awards” have become the foremost, prestigious awards program for public recognition for Excellence in Architecture in the United States both nationally and internationally. The Awards identify new cutting-edge design direction, urban philosophy, design approach, style, and intellectual substance in American Architecture today.</p> <p>More information can be found at the <a href="http://www.chi-athenaeum.org/archawards/index.html">Chicago Athenaeum website.</a></p> http://www.oskaarchitects.com/Recognition/1463 "TAM selects Seattle firms for Pacific Avenue plaza redesign." Tacoma Daily Index, October 30, 2009. <http://www.tacomadailyindex.com/> http://www.oskaarchitects.com/Recognition/1464 The Rolling Huts, 2009 American Architecture Award, The Chicago Athenaeum http://www.oskaarchitects.com/Recognition/1462 Outpost, 2009 American Architecture Award, The Chicago Athenaeum http://www.oskaarchitects.com/Recognition/1461