Thaisa Way, program director, landscape and garden studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., and professor, Landscape Architecture Department, College of Built Environments, University of Washington – Weyerhaeuser is “an international icon of Modernism.” A microsite features the letters and members of the public are encouraged to contact Mayor Ferrell and Colonel Bullock.ĭavid Streatfield, professor emeritus of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington – Weyerhaeuser is “unquestionably the finest corporate campus in the world.” Leading landscape architects including Laurie Olin, Bill Johnson, Gary Hilderbrand, Debra Guenther, Brice Maryman, and Weyerhaeuser designer Peter Walker, along with scholars Marc Treib, Richard Longstreth, David Streatfield, Gwendolyn Wright, Nicholas Adams, Scott Melbourne, and Kenneth Helphand, architects Joeb Moore and David Goldberg, Docomomo US, noted design critic and architectural historian Alexandra Lange, and others are speaking out. Officials at IRG are ignoring a mid-1970s master plan that details appropriate areas for development and have rejected design assistance from Walker, SOM partner Craig Hartman, and SWA managing principal René Bihan. Weyerhaeuser, which was completed in 1972, is now owned by the Los Angeles-based developer Industrial Realty Group, which plans to build 1.5 million square feet of warehouse space at the 425-acre site. Army Corps of Engineers Seattle district commander Colonel Alexander Bullock – the Corps is conducting a review because wetlands are affected. The letters are addressed to Federal Way Mayor Jim Ferrell – the city issues land use and construction permits – and U.S. The campaign has resulted letters from significant landscape architects, architects, scholars and leaders throughout the design community. It was originally designed by landscape architect Peter Walker, founding principal of Sasaki, Walker and Associates (SWA) and PWP Landscape Architecture, and Edward Charles Bassett, partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). (February 2, 2021) - The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) today launched an international letter-writing campaign to prevent inappropriate development at the acclaimed Weyerhaeuser Corporate Headquarters, in Federal Way, Washington, called the “finest corporate campus in the world” and worthy of National Historic Landmark status. Media Contact: Nord Wennerstrom | T: 202.483.0553 | M: 202.255.7076 | E: has been called the "finest corporate campus in the world" and worthy of National Historic Landmark status
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