ATELIERJONES FEATURED IN THE ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER

Thanks to The Architect’s Newspaper for featuring atelierjones as their September Studio Visit, featuring several of our latest mass timber projects!

ST. MARK’S AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT IN THE URBANIST

The Urbanist featured a well-researched and informative article explaining our study for affordable housing adjacent to St. Mark’s Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The article explains our proposed approach, as well as some of the current headwinds faced by affordable housing projects in Seattle. While we hope the delay to the project is short, we are grateful to be working with this forward-thinking institution to try and bring more affordable housing to our city.

YAKAMA NATION FOREST TOUR

Many thanks to the Yakama Nation for hosting us, along with the AIA Seattle Mass Timber Committee, on a tour of their forest land and the Yakama Forest Products mill.

WOMEN OF CARBON

Susan Jones is featured in the Women of Carbon documentary, among other female leaders in the construction industry who are fighting to lower our carbon footprint in the built environment. The premiere screening will be held at Cinema 21 in Portland on August 14th, with wider screenings to follow.

2024 WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE AWARD

Susan Jones is honored as one of five Architectural Record 2024 Women in Architecture Design Leadership Award winners! Award reception to be held on October 1st at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.

SUMMER RETREAT 2024

The atelierjones team enjoyed another summer retreat to Orcas Island. We spent time kayaking, eating, working in the forest, and celebrating a successful year. On Sunday we were treated to an amazing sight - a pod of Orca whales appeared, and spent an hour swimming and jumping in the bay as we watched from the rocks.

CRTC VISIT

Thanks to Geoffrey Wood and the rest of the Composite Recycling Technology Center team in Port Angeles for hosting us and our research collaborators from the University of Washington School of Forestry. It was inspiring to see their work with Mass Timber and recycled carbon fiber, which is pushing our industry forward and bringing new sustainable jobs to the Olympic Peninsula. We hope this is only the beginning!

ROUNDHOUSE CELEBRATION

atelierjones visited Greenville for the blessing of the Maidu Roundhouse Youth Education Center. We saw the alignment of the summer solstice sun at the center of the rotunda, and watched Feather Dancers from across California who came to celebrate with the Greenville Maidu. With the help of the Sierra Institute, this project that began around a kitchen table just 18 months ago is on track to be completed later this Summer.

AIA SEATTLE TOURS KENMORE HOUSE

atelierjones’ Kenmore house played host to AIA Seattle’s Mass Timber and Small Practice and Residential Committees for their May site tour. The weather was beautiful as we toured the house under construction, joined by 50 local architects and professionals. After only one month above grade, the mass timber and interior framing has been completed, and we look forward to completion later this year!

HEARTWOOD IN ARCHITECTURAL RECORD

Heartwood features in this May’s issue of Architectural Record, Housing at all Costs. Thanks to Joann Gonchar and Architectural Record for an extremely thoughtful and thorough feature!

See the online version here: In Seattle, Mass Timber Tackles the Workforce Housing Crunch | Architectural Record

ATELIERJONES JOINS NYC MASS TIMBER STUDIO

We are honored to join six other teams in the inaugural cohort of the New York City Mass Timber Studio! Our team, including Magna & York, Sage and Coombe, Swinerton, Timberlab, and DCI Engineers, is working to redesign a seven-story concrete apartment build in mass timber, bringing sustainable timber construction to Harlem. This program, sponsored by the New York City Economic Development Corporation, is a visionary effort to help lower embodied carbon in the built environment, and we would love to see municipalities around the country follow their example!

Clinton Presidential Center Presents "The Future American City... Now"

Susan Jones joins the Clinton Presidential Center, presenting “The Future American City…Now” in partnership with the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. The program will feature an engaging discussion with four national leaders in design and policy shaping our urban futures. The conversation promises informative and stimulating perspectives on affordable housing, transportation, low-carbon design and construction, and civic engagement in city design.

ATELIERJONES AT THE 2024 iMTC

We’re looking forward to another year of seeing old friends and colleagues and meeting new ones at the International Mass Timber Conference. We hope you can join us for the Thursday sessions, where Meghan Doring will present Mass Timber Modular Housing: Scaling and It’s Challenges, and Susan will share the recent results of Heartwood’s Life Cycle Analysis in Transparency in Materials, Carbon Accounting, and Next Life Re-Use. See you out on the floor!

Heartwood Featured at the Skyscraper Museum

Heartwood is featured the Skyscraper Museum’s Tall Timber: The Future of Cities in Wood, an exhibition showcasing Mass Timber as a lower-carbon alternative to concrete and steel high-rises.

TALL TIMBER opens on February 27th in New York City

SUSAN JONES WINS AIA SEATTLE GOLD MEDAL

atelierjones founder and principal Susan Jones was awarded the 2024 AIA Seattle Gold Medal, recognizing distinguished lifetime achievement in architecture, including design and professional practice and service to the profession, the community, education and the arts.

VAAGEN VISIT

atelierjones visted Vaagen Timbers at their Colville, Washington headquarters. The visit coincided with the final production of CLT panels for the Roundhouse, and the team got to watch as the panels were pressed and prepared for delivery to Greenville, California. Thanks to Vaagen for hosting us, and for playing a valuable part in our regional woodbasket!

MASS TIMBER MODULAR FIRE REPLACEMENT HOMES WIN TWO HONOR AWARDS

atelierjones’ Mass Timber Modular Fire Replacement Homes take home both an Award of Merit and the Young Voice’s Selection at the 2023 AIA Seattle Honor Awards!

ATELIERJONES OPEN HOUSE

On August 30th, atelierjones is hosting an open house for our collaborators, clients, and friends! Join us at our office in the Bullitt Center for food, cocktails, and fun. With so much to celebrate this year, we would love for you to join us!

1501 East Madison Street, Seattle, WA. 4-8pm

RISING FROM THE ASHES | SIERRA INSTITUTE HOMES

NBC Bay Area News came to visit our local home owner, Ken Donell and feature the Greenville, California community’s amazingly resilient response to the Dixie Fire devastation which occurred just two years ago, destroying over 1,000 structures in the small town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Today, three houses are just weeks away from move-in. As Jennifer Gray Thompson of the Bay Area fire response group After The Fire says in the coverage, “They’re very creative, they’re very innovative…to see this amazing wildfire resistant, really climate resistant [house] go up here, really the most impressive example I’ve seen in six years of doing this work.” atelierjones is so honored to be working with the Sierra Institute for Community and Environment and Mass Timber Strategy on this important project.

Roundhouse to Begin Construction

The Maidu Roundhouse Cultural Center is moving forward with funding towards a late summer start for construction! Thank you to the incredible effort from the Sierra Institute and the willpower of the Roundhouse members to secure the funding needed to push the project forward from design into construction. atelierjones is expecting the permit in August and is working closely with Vaagen Timbers to approve the shop drawings. The builders will begin with groundwork on the site this month. This major step forward for Roundhouse exemplifies the resilience of the community around shared purpose: environmental and cultural justice. We are thrilled and honored to work with the Maidu and additional partners on this project.