Surrounded by the world’s most high-tech fruit packing warehouses, the 16,500-square-foot Washington Fruit & Produce Co. headquarters is conceived as an oasis amidst a sea of concrete and low-lying brush landscape. Tucked behind landforms and site walls, this courtyard-focused office complex provides a refuge from the noise and activity of the indu...
Project name
Washington Fruit & Produce Co. Headquarters
Architecture firm
Graham Baba Architects
Location
Yakima, Washington, USA
Photography
Kevin Scott, Jenn LaFreniere
Design team
Brett Baba (design principal). Hill Pierce (project architect). Jenn LaFreniere (project manager)
Collaborators
ARUP (M/E/P/fire protection engineer). Premier SIPS (Structurally Insulated Panel roof). Selkirk Timberwrights (glulam). Pacific Window Systems (glazing). Stusser Woodworks (custom furniture fabrication & white oak paneling). Millwork Preservation (interior custom woodworking)
Interior design
Interior Motiv
Landscape
The Berger Partnership
Structural engineer
MA Wright, LLC
Lighting
Brian Hood Lighting
Construction
Artisan Construction
Material
Steel, Glass, Wood, etc.
Typology
Commercial architecture, Headquarter
Originally built as a modest beachfront cabin in the 1960s, and subsequently modified through a series of piecemeal renovations, by the time our client acquired the house its design integrity had long ceased to exist. The forested property, however, was ideally suited to the creation of a quiet refuge with direct connections to nature.
Project name
Lakeside Residence
Architecture firm
Graham Baba Architects
Location
Mercer Island, Washington, USA
Design team
Brett Baba, design principal. Francesco Borghesi, project team. Noreen Shinohara, project team
Collaborators
Geotech Consultants (geotechnical engineer)
Interior design
Terry Hunziker
Structural engineer
Carissa Farkas
Landscape
Rich Haag and Associates / Anne James Landscape Architect
Construction
Lockhart Suver
Material
Polished concrete and stone, cirussed rift white oak wood, fumed oak floors, and blackened steel
Typology
Residential › House
Graham Baba Architects completes Cedar House in Clyde Hill, Washington. The project involved a complete renovation of a house originally designed by noted Pacific Northwest architect Ralph Anderson. Despite falling outside of the traditionally accepted definition of mid-century modern (it was originally built in the 70s), the design (including nota...
Architecture firm
Graham Baba Architects
Location
Clyde Hill, Washington, USA
Interior design
Graham Baba Architects
Construction
Dovetail General Contractors
Typology
Residential › House
