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IT'S NOT HARD TO INVEST AN OFFICE ENVIRONMENT with the spirit of SeattLe: All you need is a jazzy fusion of informality and unpredictability, a tangible sizzle, and staggering ocean […]

by Lawrence W. Cheek Frank Stella and friends gather at Seattle's R.C. Hedreen Company by NBBJ Pocked and scarred and showing every one of their 81 years of service, 25 […]

by Lawrence W. Cheek Firm: Mithun Site: Woodinville, Washington The mood is serene, the materials unpretentious, the geometry sober. "No gratuitous lines" is how Mithun principal Kim Munizza puts it. […]

by Lawrence W. Cheek A sales-and-marketing satellite in Bellevue, Washington, runs an SkB Architects operating system based on fun The private office used to be a perk at Microsoft Corporation, […]

The article focuses on NBBJ design partner and interior designer Rysia Suchecka's partnership with Heliotrope Architects to redesign her weekend home on Washington's Orcas Island. The structure is described as a transparent boxcar whose long sides are largely floor-to-ceiling glass. A smaller boxcar located between the public space and the master bedroom preserves the home's interior openness by storing utilitarian items such as food and clothes. Most of the furniture was designed by Suchecka herself with some pieces built by an island cabinetmaker.

The article reviews an exhibition of a museum-worthy collection of contemporary art in the 14,000 square foot office of a U.S. Pacific Northwest entrepreneur.

The article describes the design created by the principals of SkB Architects for a studio. Doug McKenzie's fellow principals--Brian Collins-Friedrichs, Kyle C. Gaffney, and Shannon Rankin--designed the new space, and construction took six months. A pair of conventional conference rooms offer seating for eight and 12. Between the two, a smaller, denlike retreat is furnished with a casual low sectional sofa and an amoeboid lens Risom coffee table.