LMN is an American
architecture firm
In the United States, an architectural firm or architecture firm is a business that employs one or more licensure, licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture; while in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and ot ...
based in
Seattle
Seattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the cou ...
, Washington. The company was founded in 1979, and provides planning and design services to create convention centers, cultural arts venues, higher education facilities, commercial and mixed-use developments.
History
LMN Architects was founded in 1979 as Loschky, Marquardt and Nesholm by George Henry Loschky (b. 1938), Judsen Robert Marquardt, and John Frank Nesholm (b. 1942), who had all worked for the Seattle architecture firm
NBBJ
NBBJ is an American global architecture, planning and design firm with offices in Boston, Columbus, London, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, Pune, San Francisco, Seattle and Shanghai.
NBBJ provides services in architecture, interiors, planning ...
. By 2005, Nesholm was the only remaining original partner, and by 2015, none of the original partners remained.
[Loschky Marquardt and Nesholm (LMN), Architects (Partnership)]
. ''Pacific Coast Architecture Database''. Accessed 9 March 2021.
In 2005, LMN Partners included: John Nesholm, Chris Eseman, Walt Niehoff, Mark Reddington, Rob Widmeyer, and George Shaw; by 2008, Wendy Pautz had joined. By 2015, the partners had become: Shaw, Reddington, Widmeyer, Niehoff, Pautz, John Chau, Rafael Viñoly-Menendez, Sam Miller, and Stephen Van Dyck. By 2017, Widmeyer had left.
As of March 2021, the partners consisted of Chau, Miller, Niehoff, Reddington, Shaw, Van Dyck, Viñoly-Menendez, Julie Adams, Osama Quotah, and Pamela Trevithick.
Features
LMN projects have been published in "On the Right Track" in ''
The Architect's Newspaper
''The Architect's Newspaper'' is an architectural publication that covers the United States in monthly printed issues and online. The paper was founded in 2003 by William Menking, editor-in-chief, and Diana Darling, publisher, to bring architect ...
'', as well as in "Vancouver Convention Centre Pushes Limit on Green Design," from Contract Design Magazine, "Advancing Data-Driven Approach to Architecture" in the Metropolis Magazine, and the ''
Seattle Times
''The Seattle Times'' is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1891, ''The Seattle Times'' has the largest circulation of any newspaper in the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region. The Seattle Time ...
'' article on the Seattle Public Library.
Awards
The firm has received over 100 awards in the past 10 years. Most recently, LMN's work on the Vancouver Convention Centre West was awarded Sustainable Building of the Year from World Architecture News. The firm was also awarded 2012 Regional Firm of the Year by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Northwest & Pacific Region as well as Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture award. A few other awards the firm has earned are:
* AIA National Cote Award for the Vancouver Convention Centre West
* Sustainable Architecture & Building Magazine Award of Sustainability
* Excellence in Construction Award for the Salem Conference Center
* International Illumination Design Award, Award of Merit for the Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
* Lumen West Award of Excellence for the Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
Notable projects
* 2001:
Washington State Convention Center
The Seattle Convention Center (SCC), formerly the Washington State Convention Center (WSCC), is a convention center in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington, United States. It consists of two buildings in Downtown Seattle with exhibition hall ...
expansion, Seattle, Washington
* 2007: Keegan Hall,
Peninsula College
Peninsula College is a public community college in Port Angeles, Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula. It is part of the Washington Community and Technical Colleges system and offers Bachelor of Applied Science in Management and Behavioral Heal ...
, Port Angeles, Washington
* 2020:
Seattle Asian Art Museum
The Seattle Asian Art Museum (often abbreviated to SAAM) is a museum of Asian art at Volunteer Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. Part of the Seattle Art Museum, the SAAM exhibits historic and contem ...
remodel and expansion, Seattle, Washington
References
External links
*
AIA Seattle profileThe 2015 Architect 50: Here are the top firms of the year
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Architecture firms based in Washington (state)
Companies based in Seattle
Design companies established in 1979