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GGN fought off competition from 19 other proposals including one from AECOM and a joint submission from SWA and Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects..."We are honored to be entrusted to work with India Basin's neighbors and visitors, to enhance the things that people already treasure about this gem of a site," said founding principal of GGN, Shannon Nichol.
They click through slides of two of the projects they've done in their hometown, both of which we'll visit later: the campus for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in the Uptown neighborhood (see "Share the Wealth," LAM, November 2014); and the Lower Rainier Vista at the University of Washington, in the University District. Nichol does much of the talking.
The North End's new "front porch" is both a contemporary garden space and a gateway to the downtown areas of Government Center and Haymarket Square.
If the Lurie Garden chapter shows us a young firm getting a feel for itself, India Basin Shoreline Park, the book's final featured project, shows a mature practice in full command of its faculties and with a firm grasp of landscape's agency. Shannon Nichol, one of GGN's three founders, led the concept design for the park in the Bayview-Hunters point neighborhood of San Francisco...Included in the chapter are Nichols' sketches showing the meadow's origin in the concept, and a series of plans show its refinement over time.
"as project architect Shannon Nichol reports... The commonality of a human experience, over all the varying physical details across time, was the clear insight that sparked our design concept: 'From Home to City.'
{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)However, GGN's designers, led by Shannon Nichol and deeply informed by the local knowledge of CSS's Skip Smallridge and Deneen Crosby as well as the historian Richard Rabinowitz, understood that this newly barren site had a long history of intricate local use.
The Lurie Garden 2000-2004... Once GGN was awarded the projects, Shannon and Kathryn led the design process..
With adjacent Parcel 8, master plan envisions this as both civic space and a neighborhood park. Only small structures with a footprint of 600-square-feet or less are allowed, and they can cover a maximum of 5 percent of the parcel. Article 49 of the city's zoning code says Parcels 8 and 10 "should be programmed, designed, and detailed for the primary benefit of the adjacent North End community through the development of a series of spaces which invite both residents and visitors to use the park while clearly delineating a neighborhood presence and oversight of the park."
Designed by Shannon Nichol of GGN (Gustafson Guthrie Nichol), the landscaping includes a multipurpose courtyard called the "Burke Yard"..,fossils from Washington state, and tiered steps perfect for outdoor seating overlooking a sweeping meadow of Camas plants and native grasses alongside the museum.
First presented in 1977, the Tucker Design Award is a nationally recognized architectural design award in both the building and landscape industries. The award program honors those whose work demonstrates excellence in concept, design, construction and use of natural stone.
The invitational design competition was won by the design team of Kathryn Gustafson, a Paris and Seattle-based landscape artist and the Seattle-based landscape architecture firm Anderson & Ray. Charles Anderson is the principal landscape architect for the project, Chris Overdorf is project manager, and associate designers include Shannon Nichol, Mark Tilbe and Inge Kaufman.
'The new Burke presents the rare opportunity for people to see and experience a sampling of these garden-worthy, useful plants and of the millennia of ethnobotanical connections between people and these plants,' says Shannon Nichol, founding principal of GGN and landscape architect of the new Burke Museum.
'We imagined this site as a thick green sponge,' says Shannon Nichol, ASLA, a founding principal of the Seattle firm Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) and the lead landscape architect for the project.
Eighteen firms were invited to submit proposals in 1999 for what the competition brief described as a "forward-looking garden" that would be 'unique to the region and different from other Chicago venues.' These were winnowed to five in the final phase. The winning proposal for the "Shoulder Garden" by Kathryn Gustafson, ASLA, and Shannon Nichol, ASLA, of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN), with the Dutch master plantsman Piet Oudolf and the theater lighting designer Robert Israel, wowed the jury, who found it 'bold, intellectual, daring, cutting edge.'
Shannon Nichol, FASLA, a founding partner in the landscape architecture firm Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN), is designing the 9.6-acre India Basin Shoreline Park—a major park along the Blue Greenway.
Elected by current NAs in recognition of their exceptional contributions to American art and architecture, the Class of 2018 represents a commitment to preserving the cultural heritage of the United States and pushing creative boundaries.
Shannon Nichol designs significant landscapes around the country, yet her work hearkens back to her childhood in Whatcom County near Mount Baker...No surprise, then, that her latest big project — the 12-acre Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation landscape across from Seattle Center — includes masses of native plants and 150 of those beloved big-leaf maples.
'The past is still living in this landscape,. says Shannon Nichol, founding principal at Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, the local landscape architecture firm responsible for connecting the museum's exhibits with the natural world
Design firm Gustafson Guthrie Nichol has been chosen to draft a plan for the once-industrial waterfront, which extends north from the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The Seattle firm won a five-team competition in which each was asked to conjure up visions for 7.5 acres of parkland. The winning presentation included natural walkways, restored marsh, a historic town square and a meadow.
'We imagined this site as a thick green sponge,' says Shannon Nichol, ASLA, a founding principal of the Seattle firm Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) and the lead landscape architect for the project.