News from Swift
Swift Company Seeking Site Designer
Swift Company LLC is seeking to fill a Site Designer position at our busy Seattle office. For more information please see the attached full announcement.
WASLA Design Award
The Sound Transit Northgate Station wins a WASLA 2023 Award of Merit for the design of a 2 acre multimodal district where pedestrians, cyclists, and bus commuters converge, circulate, and interact. Finding beauty in the daily commute and the intimate experience of transiting through a community as part of daily life takes on new meaning at the points where we move from one mode of transport to the next. These hinge points make or break the joy of a seamless transition that supports continued use. The Sound Transit North Link Northgate Station is one of those points, where joy and pleasure are a fundamental part of the design criteria in support of building a community committed to and comfortable with mass transit. The jury acknowledged this core criteria: “it is a delight to see a transportation project that promotes joy and pleasure for its users and transforms otherwise foreboding infrastructure into an artistic expression.”
Climate Pledge Arena wins Sports Facility of the Year Award!
Climate Pledge Arena has been awarded Sports Facility of the Year at this year’s Sports Business Awards in NYC! Congratulations to Oak View Group, CAA ICON, and Populous Architects for leading the way, the Seattle Center team, and all of the collaboration we shared with our design teammates. As a Revitalization of an existing arena within the heart of Seattle’s civic center, the Climate Pledge Arena project positioned itself as uniquely responsive to the neighborhood, community, and climate. Read more here.
Sound Transit Northgate Link Extension wins 2021 ACEC-WA Engineering Excellence Award!
The Sound Transit Northgate Link Extension received the 2021 ACEC-WA Engineering Excellence Award! 4.3 miles with 3.5 miles of tunnels. The Extension daily serves 49,000 people with three unique stations and Swift is thrilled to celebrate the acknowledgement of this important investment in the future of our region. We are thrilled to see the rapid adoption of the three urban stations and their contribution to civic life.
The Long Game: Sound Transit Extensions, a Master Plan for OSU Cascades Campus, the new Climate Pledge Arena
Building community and exceptional places for civic life is a long game. It requires vision, commitment, and a team of many. Read our full newsletter and subscribe here!
The Architectural League of New York American Roundtable Grant: “Dynamic Landscapes,” South Beach, Washington
On February 26, 2021 from 9:00 to 10:00 AM PST, the South Beach team South Beach team presents a year of research and exploration of a deeply dynamic place on the Washington coast facing the future of sea level rise, tectonic plate shift and tsunami. Check it out here. Photography: Eirik Johnson
The Architectural League of New York American Roundtable Grant: “Dynamic Landscapes,” South Beach, Washington
The American Roundtable initiative goes live! Director Nicholas Anderson describes the hopes for the project (Read more here). The South Beach team report reflects a year of research and exploration of Washington State’s coastal community facing the future of sea level rise, tectonic plate shift and tsunami joins nine other research efforts (Check out the full project here). Photography: Eirik Johnson
Eastern Washington University Pence Union
Eastern Washington University Pence Union Building continues to win awards for design excellence including citation awards from AIA Washington Council and AIA New England Design. The heart of university life, the renovated student union focuses on places to gather, study, and celebrate. Photography: Kevin Scott