The team has a combination of local roots and international experience that will make the new Central Plaza a unique reflection of Yakima as a place and a culture. Gustafson Guthrie Nichol is working closely with Graham Baba Architects and Magnusson Klemencic Associates. The work includes conceptual design alternatives for the preferred site at Millennium Plaza across from the Capitol Theatre and a concept design for a site at the southeast corner of North Second Street and Sgt. Gustafson Guthrie Nichol’s design effort is being led by founding principal Kathryn Gustafson and principal Bernie Alonzo. Photograph courtesy: Seattle City Council) For Yakima residents, this means that daily life and local culture will be enhanced by a major new public space, designed for them, that could only happen in Yakima. ![]() ![]() The plaza will transform a central downtown site from a parking lot into a welcoming, interactive public space at the heart of a vibrant community. Seattle, WA (March 27, 2014) – Today the City of Yakima announced that Seattle-based landscape architect Gustafson Guthrie Nichol is designing the Downtown Yakima Central Plaza in Yakima, Washington. Kathryn will be on hand to sign these very first copies – it will be the first look for everyone at this extraordinary new publication.ĭowntown Yakima Central Plaza, Yakima, Washington State, USA It is an honor for Kathryn to be thus featured in the Japan Architect edition, and we hope that you will join our celebration of her influential works, both within and beyond her collaborations with Gustafson Guthrie Nichol and Gustafson Porter. ![]() The introduction is by Toshiko Mori, architect and professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Thaisa Way, herself a noted landscape author and professor at the University of Washington, has written the text and will be joining us. The very first copies of the a+u special edition Expressions of Landscape, Kathryn Gustafson are being shipped from the printer in Japan to arrive for the event. GGN Landscape Architects, Seattle, Washington, USAĢ326 Second Avenue, between Bell and BatteryĪ midweek cocktail party and celebration at Peter Miller Books and Suyama Space. Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, GGN Landscape Architecture, Building, Studio, Office, Design Gustafson Guthrie Nichol : Seattle Landscape Architects
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