Living Future 20

Living Future 20

Gladys Ly-Au Young spoke at two LF20 events: the inaugural Health and Wellness in the Built Environment panel on May 19, 2020 and her session From Personal Life to Project Scale – What inhibits Us to Act? with her guests, Uche Okezie and Jonathan Heller...

Port Townsend High School accessibility improvements finished!

We're starting 2020 with the completion of ADA campus improvements to Port Townsend High School! With buildings over a century old, accessibility improvements were paramount for current and upcoming students with limited mobility. Two new elevators connect students to the upper floors that they couldn't...

SKL moves to the Bullitt Center

In alignment with our passion to deliver beautiful, sustainable design to mission-driven organizations and individuals, SKL announces its move to the Bullitt Center, known as the greenest commercial building in the world. Please come visit us at our new home on Capitol Hill, which we...

Olympic High School receives AIA WA Civic Design Award

Olympic High School was presented with a Citation Award at last Thursday’s AIA|WA’s Civic Design Awards. The Awards celebrate design excellence in publicly funded projects located in Washington and showcase projects with the highest standards in sustainability, innovation, building performance and overall integration with the...

Three women in built environment

From AIA Seattle: Following two years of convening conversations with Seattle's Office of Community Planning and Development on investment in our communities of need, AIA Seattle's Diversity Roundtable brings together three women leaders in built environment to talk about how their investment in cultural...

SKL project featured in LBC Framework for Affordable Housing

Othello Square Affordable Housing Building is featured in the updated version of the Living Building Challenge Framework for Affordable Housing.  Access to healthy, sustainable building materials, renewable energy and quality water sources is as much an environmental as well as a social justice issue for...

SKL receives our JUST 2.0 Label

This year, in an effort to create more transparency and to better analyze our efforts towards making our community and our office more equitable, we received our JUST 2.0 label, the International Living Future Institute's new social justice transparency platform and labeling program. JUST is...

Chophouse Row featured on AIA National website

ChopHouse Row was recently featured on the AIA National website as an example of outcomes that "reflect AIA’s qualities of resilience." This adaptive-reuse project knits together an entire block of disparate buildings via new pedestrian corridors and connections between old and new space to create...

OHS Grand Opening Video

We are proud to join Olympic High School in celebrating the grand opening of its new 96,000 SF centerpiece, which includes a prominent new entry, classrooms, technical labs, and a 450 seat performing arts theatre. Designed by SKL for the Central Kitsap School District,...

“Holy cow, look at this place!”

A look at Olympic High School: before and after. The school district hired SKL to give OHS a new 96,000 SF centerpiece, which includes a prominent new Entry, Classrooms, Technical Labs, and a 450 seat performing arts Theatre. Central to the scheme is a two story...

Opening of Sanctuary: Design for Belonging Exhibition

SKL's proposal "Seattle Resource Hubs" is featured in an exhibit at the Center for Architecture and Design - Sanctuary:Design for Belonging. The proposal, which was originally entered in the "Displaced: Design for Inclusive Cities" competition, sought to answer the question "what does a Sanctuary City...

DJC 2018 A/E Perspectives Survey of Firms

SKL principal John Kennedy answered questions from the DJC about his firm and trends and issues in the industry. Q: What can architects, developers and government do to make Seattle more livable and sustainable? A: The United Nations just came out with a report demanding “unprecedented changes”...

South King Tool Library Always Looking for Volunteers

Add some SKL design and tender-love-&-care to two donated shipping containers and out comes a tool library!  South King Tool Library in Federal Way is always looking for volunteers and donations, especially while they await final approval to serve south King and north Pierce counties....

SKL Wins Award in “Displaced” Design Competition

Design in Public and AIA Seattle announced SKL their second place winner in their "Displaced: Design for Inclusive Cities" competition! The competition, which received entries from teams  from 14 countries representing 7 design disciplines, sought to answer the question "what does a Sanctuary City look...

First Day of School at Oly!

After one hot, busy summer, the first day of school at Olympic High School was a surprise for many students: a shiny new and improved commons. Bright faces greeted old friends and new surroundings. Although there's more to come for the students (construction continues behind...

Westside School in Retrofit Magazine

One of our favorite stories of transformation! An outdated 1970s-era church is resurrected as a sustainable, modern educational facility. You can read the story of SKL's adaptive reuse design of Westside School (Seattle, WA) School in the current (September/October) Education issue of Retrofit magazine. Read the article...