Ambia Takes Home 3 Awards!

2006 Excellence in Masonry Design Awards Banquet

Ambia attended the Masonry Institute of Washington’s awards banquet which included a competitive field of top architectural firms. Ambia’s Center for the Arts Building was selected for the top honor, the prestigious People’s Choice Award. It was the last award, and the most anticipated of the evening. Both the Center for the Arts Building at South Puget Sound Community College, and the Lilly Road Medical Office Building received a Merit Award early on in the ceremony.

Center for the Arts Building
South Puget Sound Community College
Olympia, WA

The Center for the Arts building is located at the entrance of South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, Washington. It has created a new dramatic front door for the campus, while strengthening the core design textures and materials, which are well established at South Puget Sound Community College. Housing several programs including Drama, Music and Art, as well as providing faculty offices and general classroom spaces, the pride of the building is it’s 500-seat theater with full fly loft. Developed to be a teaching space as well as a state-of-the-art college theater, the auditorium will be used not only by the drama and music programs, but by the community as well.
The building is designed such that community events in the auditorium, as well as regularly scheduled classes can occur at the same time without concern for security of accessibility. The building form, driven by the large volume auditorium, rehearsal and choral spaces, is simple and elegant, with references to masonry performing arts centers of the past, while maintaining modern sensibilities and seamlessly incorporating 21st century technology.

Lilly Road Medical Office Building
Olympia, WA

The Lilly Road Medical Office Building, located in Olympia, Washington, is a 48,000 SF facility. The shell and core were completed mid 2005, and is currently 80% occupied. Tenant improvements designed by Ambia.
• Olympia Orthopedic Association
• St. Peter Physical Therapy
• NW Children’s Heart Care
• Obstetrics and Gynecology
• St. Peter Neurosurgery