Community Project
This Cross-Laminated-Timber Library Features Nods to a Local Indigenous Community
Set in La Conner, Wash., the new La Conner Swinomish Library stems from a collaboration between Seattle-based BuildingWork and the Swinomish Tribe.
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![Visitors walk through a five-story tunnel being constructed to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle. Progress on the two-mile tunnel that will move State Route 99 underground stalled in December after the tunnel boring machine had to be shut down for repairs, but work on tunnel walls and other structures continued. The tunnel topped a list of "11 highway boondoggles" that shouldn't be constructed, in a report released yesterday by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund. [The Seattle Times]](https://architectmagazine.stg.zonda.onl/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/937224573-0919-mr-hero-tcm20-2167682.jpg?w=197)
![A love of historic buildings fueled the second career of Tammy Felker (left, with colleague Teri Oelrich), a former critical-care nurse who obtained her architecture license in April. The only registered architect at the firm NBBI who also has been a nurse, Felker says her integrated experience is a great asset: "When someone [at a hospital] says, 'We'll get a balloon pump in the elevator,' I know what that equipment is."](https://architectmagazine.stg.zonda.onl/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2007/tmpcba0-2etmp-tcm20-172849.jpg?w=87)
