March 11, 2009

AIA Project of the Month: Wing Luke tells stories, in galleries and structure

Photo by Lara Swimmer [enlarge]

Original rough board walls are washed with light from a linear skylight — all preserved as part of the circulation inside the new Wing Luke Asian Museum.

Rick Sundberg knows the exact distance between his Pioneer Square office and the new Wing Luke Asian Museum: Six hundred and one steps. That's about a block and a half.

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Previous columns:

• AIA Seattle Project of the Month: ‘Now everyone wants a building like this', 02-18-2009
• Looking back at 2008’s Projects of the Month, 01-14-2009
• AIA Project of the Month: Mambo Palazzo works a little magic on Queen Anne, 12-10-2008
• AIA Project of the Month: 100 years later, a civic dream comes true in South Park, 11-19-2008
• AIA Project of the Month: Tacoma's Stadium High is old, yet brand new, 10-08-2008
• AIA Project of the Month: UW's new Conibear Shellhouse is ‘so Seattle', 09-10-2008
• AIA Project of the Month: North Cascades center lives up to its promises, 08-13-2008
• AIA Project of the Month: Virtual surgery center offers real training for doctors, 07-09-2008