Pub. 1 2020 Directory

This new fire station, located at the street edge, commands a strong presence from the road. Despite the site’s limitations, the result is a pedestrian-friendly and durable urban design. The new station reflects the City of Boise’s desire to provide a technically advanced, modern, and sustainably designed station for this location. Station 8 was conceived using the LEED v4 performance metric and will achieve a silver certification level and follow the city’s Green Building Code sustainable guidelines.

Located on the newly revitalized Main Street, this project is a centrally located gastropub within the Moscow community. The taphouse sought a refined yet rustic design that would honor the building’s past, located in the historic O’Connor Building built in 1953 and listed on the National Historic Register. Offering 25 rotating regional craft beers, local ciders and 10 wine variations on tap, it imbibes the character of the surrounding wheat-filled farmland of the Palouse hills. The project’s main function is a brewpub, and the U-shaped bar was engineered within this narrow space to face toward Main Street to ensure that passersby could see the large tap display within.

Wallen Road snakes out of Moscow, Idaho, climbing approximately 500 ft. before straddling a ridge offering panoramic views of the Palouse Range, the region’s primary land feature. Located on 25 acres, the site is forested below and opens to an elevated knoll at the south end of the property, affording stunning views, good southern exposure and ease of access in winter months. An old, gnarly existing orchard provides a natural privacy screen from the county road for the dwelling. Design objectives were to create a vernacular building that appears as old relative to the land and orchard, to preserve the native grasses, to incorporate sustainable aspects (solar gain, reclaimed wood, construction-waste reduction and a green roof) and to satisfy the robust programmatic requirements of the adults and children living there.

CSHQA designed this 71,000-SF office building and 14,000-SF research and development lab for yogurt-maker Chobani. The facility is part innovation center and part community center, meant to benefit both Chobani employees and the community of Twin Falls.

2020 has been a whirlwind year, testing us all in our capacity to respond to a global disaster — and on top of others, including earthquakes, wildfires, floods, and civil unrest. As this challenging year comes to a close, it’s an opportunity to look back at what we’ve collectively accomplished, where we’ve found roadblocks, and how we can work together in the year ahead to build our communities’ resilience across the country.

If you’ve never had the opportunity to visit a Frank Lloyd Wright building, I hope you have the chance sometime soon. Maybe it’s the mystique, the well-known and documented architectural significance or the hype, but visiting a Frank Lloyd Wright building is a near-divine experience.

While not scientifically proven, it is well known in the AEC community that it takes approximately three years to become familiar with an edition of the building code. In unrelated news, the ICC publishes a new version of their model building codes every three years.

Architects play twister all day long. We wear many hats and have to juggle many balls, from being couples counselors to soils scientists to thermodynamicists to graphic designers. We help people weigh and make decisions. We are in the weeds of the micro to the big picture of the macro. We become experts in many fields throughout our never-ending “education” of a career.

Having joined the American Institute of Architects in 1983, I was not always the most active member. I became involved with the AIA Portland Design Awards program several years later but continued to stay on the periphery of activities. I always seemed to find time to attend events but never stepped up to get involved. As a sole practitioner, I always felt there was never time for AIA and wondered what it did for me.

At AIA Central Idaho, we have been in a growth mode right up till COVID-19 hit. We moved our lunch venue to a larger place to hold all the members while hosting unique and relevant guest speakers each month. Our chapter has continued to be invigorated with excellent officers. We changed our bylaws, allowing the president and president-elect to serve a two-year term instead of only one-year terms to promote more leadership stability.