Press - 2023
12.20.23
Mount Zion Baptist Church Celebrates Grand Opening Of The Central District Freehold Affordable Housing Development | The Seattle Medium
Sam Cameron of Rolluda Architects served as Lead Architect on this project.
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08.31.23
Rolluda Architects: Transforming Communities through Collaboration and Diversity in Architecture | Archikonst
Rolluda Architects is in the latest issue of Archikonst Magazine, the Philippines’ longest-running architecture and construction magazine. Our feature is titled, “Rolluda Architects: Transforming Communities through Collaboration and Diversity in Architecture.”
07.20.23
Multi-user, all-gender restroom opens at Sea-Tac Airport | King5
Rolluda Architects was on the design team for the restroom upgrades in Concourses B, C, and D of the Sea-Tac International Airport. The restroom makes Sea-Tac Airport one of approximately 10 in the country that has a multi-user restroom for all genders.
06.15.23
120-unit permanent supportive housing project tops out in Lake City | Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
Chief Seattle Club is celebrating the topping out of its latest permanent supportive housing project at 14315 Lake City Way N.E.
Crews from BNBuilders topped out the five-story building last month. A celebration event was hosted by BNB, with Chief Seattle Club elders providing a traditional blessing ceremony to mark the occasion. The property is designed by Rolluda Architects with indigenous design elements provided by Jones and Jones.
06.05.23
County breaks ground on $101M transfer station | Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
Last month, King County broke ground on a new recycling and transfer station in south King County. The station is being built on a 10.7-acre site that was formerly a rock quarry just south of Auburn and just north of the Algona recycling station (which it will replace), at 35101 W. Valley Highway S.
HDR is the prime architect/engineering firm for the new station. JRMA is a subconsultant for architectural and structural design work. Other consultants shown on project documents include Rolluda Architects, FSi Engineers, HBB Landscape Architecture, and Osborn Consulting.
Rendering via JRMA
05.31.23
$13M makeover for South Park Community Center, playfields | Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
Seattle Parks and Recreation is planning a series of upgrades and improvements at South Park Community Center and its surrounding site and playfields. Work includes the renovation of the over-30-year-old center, at 8319 Eighth Ave. S., and a total reimagining of the site and fields. Rolluda Architects designed the community center renovations.
05.05.23
Nonprofit plans 52 Rainier Valley units, all affordable | Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
Established in 1935, the nonprofit Filipino Community of Seattle has been based for many years in the Rainier Valley.
There it has a community center and associated new senior housing building. In December it added to that assemblage with the $2.3 million purchase of its north neighbor: a Cash America Pawn shop at 5718 Martin Luther King Jr. Way S.
Now, with Rolluda Architects, FCS has filed a new seven-story, 52-unit affordable housing plan. It'll eventually replace the old pawn shop, which dates to 1968.
02.17.23
Lydig low bidder for south transfer station, at $101M | Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
Lydig Construction has emerged as the low bidder for the South County Recycling and Transfer Station, with a bid of $100.68 million. The new facility will be built just north of the aging Algona Transfer Station, which is at 35101 W. Valley Highway S.
HDR is the prime architect/engineering firm overseeing the design, with JRMA as a subconsultant for architectural and structural design work. Other consultants shown on project documents include Rolluda Architects, FSi Engineers, HBB Landscape Architecture, and Osborn Consulting.
02.03.23
New MOHAI exhibit celebrates Black architects and designers in Seattle and beyond | Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
From the Ground Up: Black Architects and Designers opens at MOHAI this Saturday Feb. 4. The exhibit, which was originally created by the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago, explores and celebrates the impact of Black architects and designers in the US and beyond. The exhibit features Benjamin F. McAdoo Jr. (1947-1961), the first Black architect registered in Washington State and the founder of the first African American-owned architecture practice in Seattle. He designed the Ethnic Cultural Center at UW in 1970. The 2013 renovation team for the Ethnic Cultural Center included Samuel Cameron of Rolluda Architects, another local Black architect featured in the exhibit.
Benjamin F. McAdoo Jr. Photo courtesy of MOHAI from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection
RAI New Hires of 2023 | Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
03.01.23 | Steven Garcia, Mia Ho, Julia Park, Pranali Shah, Norma Tompkins, and Alexander Clark