"The building's plan frames views of nearby hills.  An expansive use of glass, overhangs, and arcades creates a strong relationship between indoors and out.  The warm material palette contrasts with the more industrial structures elsewhere on the site.  It's a handsome building and a very inviting place to work."

Source: Gray Awards

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"The scissor columns comprise two Douglas fir glulam members angled at different directions—one lists inward toward building and the other stands perpendicular to the roof slope. Delicately crossing each other before tying into twin steel posts, the columns anchor into concrete piers."

Source: Architect Magazine

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Source: USA Today

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"Tucked behind landforms and site walls, this courtyard-focused office complex provides a refuge from the noise and activity of the industrial processing yards nearby."

Source: The Plan

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"Views throughout the thirty-acre complex are controlled, whether to the courtyard, the distant hills, or to the shallow private office views created between the building and the berms. Everything is curated to create a peaceful environment in which to work."

Source: World Architecture News

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"The architects carefully curated the landscape as well, using excavated dirt from the foundation to block views of a nearby highway and open up the more pleasing vistas in the distance. “There’s a circle of earth berms so you don’t see the horizon, but you see hills beyond – you’re not aware of the surroundings,” he says."

Source: Architects + Artisans

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“The only precedent the owner showed us was a dilapidated barn, with very old, black wood falling off the building,” says Brett Baba, partner in Graham Baba Architects. “You could see the diagonal knee braces – the gabled shape and the weathered, angled wood were the takeaways.”

Source: Huffington Post

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"For a family-owned operation, Graham Baba Architects crafts a sublime headquarters rooted in the landscape of central Washington's golden hills."

Source: Contract

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"Views throughout the complex are directed inward to the courtyard or upward to nearby basalt formations and the geography of distant hills, Baba said.  “It’s largely about creating an inward focus for the views,” he said. “So the space, the courtyard and the buildings are wrapped with these berms and site walls. It’s ... about focusing the views and creating a great workplace for the people there.”

Source: Yakima Herald

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"...Entries are judged by more than 400 luminaries and thought leaders from fields as diverse as fashion, publishing, product design, real estate development, and tech. We wanted to create an awards program that reminded the world how important architecture is. What architects do shapes every space and every place where people spend their lives."

Source: Architizer

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"Several buildings designed by Northwest firms were among 79 that won 2017 American Architecture Awards.  The awards were announced last week by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.  Washington Fruit & Produce Co. Headquarters in Yakima by Graham Baba Architects was one of the winners."

Source: The Daily Journal of Commerce

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"The 18-foot-tall scissored glu-lam structural columns are pulled to the outside to enable the 175-foot-long interior space to be completely column free. The interior, which is topped with 68-foot-long exposed truss girders, reaches a maximum height of 20 feet."

Source: Building Design & Construction

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"The campus consists of volumes organised around a verdant courtyard. Intended to develop a natural patina over time, the buildings feature exposed wooden columns, vast expanses of glass, and siding made of reclaimed barn wood...Ample glazing brings natural light into the building, while also enabling outward views. "Everything is curated to create a peaceful environment in which to work," the team said."

Source: Dezeen

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"Andrew was also impressed with the strong repetitive element of the project going on to say: “The repetitive element Richard is referring to is perfect for its purpose. The simple architecture is beautiful, and to be that simple takes confidence, perfectly done.”...WAN AWARDS would like to thank the jury and congratulate all six finalists in the WAN Wood in Architecture Award 2016." 

Source: World Architecture News

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"Tucked behind landforms and site walls, this courtyard-focused office complex provides a serene refuge from the noise and activity of nearby fruit packing warehouses. Taking cues from an aging barn, the building is light and open with a muted palette, reclaimed wood siding, and a rooted connection to the land."

Source: The Architects Newspaper

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Ten projects won 2016 Design Awards from the Northwest and Pacific Region chapter of the American Institute of Architects... A total of 80 projects were entered by architects from Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana and Guam/Micronesia. The award categories were honor, merit and citation.

Source: The Daily Journal of Commerce

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