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Opening Day / Annual Meeting / Exhibit / Reception / ARCHITECTURE CELEBRATION
Monday September 16, 4:30-6:30pm
Join the University of Washington Club Board of Directors and staff and other members for a brief business meeting and a reception honoring the Club building's history as celebrated in an an exhibit of building design features and remarks by special guest Peter Steinbrueck.
RSVP: uwclub@uw.edu, 206.543-0437
The building originally known as the University of Washington Faculty Center received honors for its design in 1960 from AIA Washington State and the AISC, and 1961 publication in Progressive Architecture and Steel Construction Digest.
Celebration will honor the heritage of the Club and of architects Paul Hayden Kirk (BArch UW 1937) and Victor Steinbrueck (BArch UW 1935).
"The steel structure, with steel T-decks exposed on the interior, gives the building a feeling of permanence and structural elegance as well as meeting required fire ratings and stringent economic considerations. ... The jury praised 'the poetic answer to the building problem that merges indoor with outdoor space' and 'the graceful uses of steel wherein every member was logically and lightly handled.'" - Steel Construction Digest 1961Sigmund Ivarsson, Structural Engineer; James B. Notkin and Associates, Mechanical Engineers; Thomas E. Sparling and Associates, Electrical Engineers; Eckbo, Dean and Williams, Landscape Architects; Wick Construction Company, Building Contractor
The Club will present a special prize to the first person to identify this object, which currently occupies a space in the lower garden beneath the Club's main entrance.
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