Design Award
Benaroya Hall Construction Enclosure
Location
Seattle, WA
Design Firm
wpa, Inc.
Client
Seattle Symphony
Design Team
Kathy Wesselman, Anthony Pellecchia, Joel Bakken
Fabricators
SignTech (Seattle)
Combining the words "edifice" and "edify" into one structure, this construction enclosure for Seattle's new symphony hall even included graphics on top, so that people in surrounding high-rise buildings could read them. Pictures and text, mounted on standard scaffolding, showed that the spirit of a building exists before its walls are built.