Yarışmalar-Competitions

Each team will receive an honorarium of $20,000 to help defray their competition costs. Bill Liskamm, FAIA is serving as the Competition Advisor in association with C. David Robinson, FAIA.

SOQs are due on September 21, 2004 with an on-site briefing for interested teams on September 8, 2004. For a Request for Qualifications, list of Jurors, and the Competition Schedule, see the Design Competition link on the Bellingham-Whatcom Public Facilities District's website: www.bwpfd.org . For additional information e-mail Bill Liskamm at [email protected] 

Bellingham-Whatcom PFD Museum
Design Competition
Competition Announcement
The Bellingham-Whatcom Public Facilities District and the City of Bellingham, Washington, are sponsoring an architectural design competition to select a winning design and architectural team for a new museum building. The new facility is intended to help meet the space needs of the existing Whatcom Museum of History and Art, which is housed in several buildings, including the former City Hall, built in 1892. The new building will be strategically located between the former City Hall and the historic Mount Baker Theatre. Both the 1892 City Hall and the Theatre are on the National Register of Historic Buildings. The new building will include a children's museum and an art gallery. It is estimated to have a total project cost of approximately $8 million and will include approximately 35,000 square feet of new construction.

Serving as the county seat of Whatcom County, the City of Bellingham, now celebrating its centennial, is the hub of activity for a region offering unspoiled, fresh and genuine recreational opportunities. Situated between two of North America's most international cities, Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia, the spectacular natural environment of the region stretches from the San Juan Islands to Mt. Baker. Perennially recognized by the national media as one of the best places to live in America, Bellingham hosts Western Washington University.

This competition will be conducted in one phase. The Sponsors are requesting Statements of Qualifications from architectural teams who are interested in participating in this competition. The Sponsors intend to select three teams for this competition based on their qualifications to implement their designs. Each team will receive an honorarium of $20,000 to help defray their competition costs, to include preparing drawings and a study model of their design.

The Competition Jury will be comprised of museum architects, urban designers, exhibit designers, and landscape architects and will include representatives of the Sponsors and the community. Each team will have an opportunity to make an oral presenation of their designs to the Jury, Sponsors, and the community prior to the Jury's recommendation of a winning design to the Sponsors. The competition winner selected by the Jury, and approved by the Sponsors, will have the opportunity to negotiate a contract for the requisite professional services to implement their winning design with the District.

Bill Liskamm, FAIA is serving as the Competition Advisor in association with C.
David Robinson, FAIA. The tentative competition schedule indicates that Statements of Qualifications are due on September 21, 2004 with an on-site briefing for interested teams on September 8, 2004. Finalists will be selected and the Competition will begin late October.

Submissions will be due in January 2005 with oral presentations in late January. Contract approval and award is expected shortly thereafter. All designers and/or teams who are licensed to provide the professional services required to implement the winning scheme, and who meet the qualifications requirements described in the Request for Qualifications, are eligible for this competition. Association of local and out-of-state firms with Washington-licensed architects will be permitted.

For a Request for Qualifications, list of Jurors, and the Competition Schedule, see the Design Competition link on the Bellingham-Whatcom Public Facilities District's website:
www.bwpfd.org/museum.htm  For additional information e-mail Bill Liskamm at
[email protected]