a+u 2018:12 NBBJ – Creating Community
Content
Founded in Seattle in 1943, NBBJ has built a trans-disciplinary reputation through collaborations with companies such as Microsoft, Samsung, Amazon, Tencent, and Alibaba, and through active partnerships with industry leaders that the architecture profession doesn’t often interface with—such as those leading in neuroscience and botany.
This issue of a+u explores 14 projects that makeup only a fraction of the firm’s 75-year legacy, focusing specifically on the company culture of flexibility and adaptation that has enabled NBBJ to challenge, and be challenged by, its innovative clients.
a+u NBBJ Creating Community includes:
Introduction
What’s Next
Clifford Pearson
Roundtable
What We Care About
Steve McConnell, Jonathan Ward,
Alyson Erwin, Nate Holland, Vivian Ngo
Essays
Escaping Good Design
Shannon Nichol
They’re Alive! Skyscrapers that Breathe, Evolve, and (Maybe
Even) Move
Clifford Pearson
New Methods, New Results
Phil Bernstein
The Re-Socialization of Patient Care
Richard Dallam, Ryan Hullinger
The Distance Between a Neuron and a Building
John J. Medina
Work
Amazon in the Regrade
The Spheres, Doppler and Meeting Center, Day One
Client Interview: John Schoettler
Interviewer: John Savo, Dale Alberda
REI at the Spring District
Columbus Metropolitan Library, Northside Branch
Client Interview: Alison Circle
Interviewer: Mike Suriano
Meridian Center for Health
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Samsung America Headquarters
Client Interview: Jim Elliott
Interviewer: Jonathan Ward
Ant Financial Z Space
Tencent Seafront Towers
Client Interview: Chao (Ivan) Wan
Interviewer: Wei Hu
Rainier Square
The Realm and Great Room, Taikoo Place
Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center
Seattle City Light, Denny Substation
Massachusetts General Hospital, Lunder Building
Client Interview: Jean Elrick
Interviewer: Joan Saba, Jay Siebenmorgen
New General Hospital