SHKS Architects finds elegance in necessity, elevating the core principles of each unique site and building project to reflect our clients' aspirations. Through collaboration, care, craft, and discovery, we reveal architecture's inherent optimism, contributing to our local community and to the global stewardship of natural and built environments.
SHKS Architects’ Mary Waelder has curated an exhibition for @aiaseattle and @seaarchitectur e (Seattle Architecture Foundation), exploring the relationship between historic preservation, design and engineering, and the cultural and economic issues that arise when making informed decisions on how best...
Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King. (Library of Congress digital archive, LS-USZ62-116775 )
“Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.” -Mal Peet Improvements at the UW Medical Center campus offered an opportunity for SHKS...
SHKS partnered with Pease Construction and HBB Landscape Architecture on Phase 1 of the new 64-acre Stan and Joan Cross Park for @piercecountypa rks. Phase 1 refurbished the historic barns of the Mayflower Dairy to create a community center for Frederickson. The renovated barns, dating to the 1930’s,...