Learning Places

Learning places bring people together, with each other and the world around them, strengthening the bonds to nature and community.   Authored and owned by the communities’ whose stories they tell, they honor local learning.  They move people to work together, learn together, and develop an ever-evolving understanding of the interdependence of communities with the natural world.      

 

Practice Areas

Education centers 

Community architecture

 

 

Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center
Bellevue, Washington

City of Bellevue Parks and Recreation and
The Pacific Science Center

 

The Environmental Education Center is the gateway to the Mercer Slough—a 320 acre wetland park at the heart of the city of Bellevue.  Opening in the summer of 2008, this will be a premier regional facility for the teaching and study of wetland ecosystems in an urban setting. more

 

 

Icicle Creek Music Center

North Cascades, Washington

Harriet Bullitt

 

The new Icicle Creek Music Center, located adjacent to Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat, offers a state-of-the-art facility for music students and instructors. more

 

 

Cedar River Watershed Education Center

Cedar Falls, Washington
Seattle Public Utilities, Watershed Management Division

 

Located at the edge of the pristine, 90,000 acre Cedar River Watershed preserve, this unique complex is dedicated to educating greater Seattle residents about the principal source of their drinking water—the Cedar River. more

 

 

Hanford Reach Interpretive Center
Richland, Washington

Various Federal State and Local Governments
in Partnership with Community Organizations

 

Located at the confluence of the Yakima and Columbia Rivers, The Hanford Reach Interpretive Center will be a gathering place for people to learn how nature and culture have shaped each other here for countless generations.  It will also be a gateway to the grandeur of the Columbia Basin, including the Hanford Reach National Monument. more

 

 

Oregon State University Cultural Centers

Corvalis, Oregon

Oregon State University

 

Four student cultural centers on the campus of Oregon State University will provide gathering places for Asian, African-American, Latino and Native American students. more

 

 

Jack Hunter O'Dell Education and Reflection Center

Kent, Washington
Institute for Community Leadership

 

The Jack Hunter O’Dell Education and Reflection Center is a catalyst for community connection—a place for life-long learning, solving community problems, nonviolence training, stewardship, and positive change in public education. more

 

 

Pullman Arts Pavillion

Pullman, Washington
City of Pullman Public Works, Washington State University Music Department

 

Sited in a hollow of the rolling hills of the Palouse, the Pullman Arts Pavilion will provide a venue for symphony orchestra, chamber ensemble, theater, acoustic and amplified performance.more

 

 

McCartney Creek Conservation Center, Program and Site Concept Plan
Moses Coulee Conservation Area, North Central Washington

The Nature Conservancy of Washington

 

Jones & Jones collaborated with The Nature Conservancy and their regional partners to develop a site concept plan and program for a new conservation center in the McCartney Creek Preserve.more

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Monterey Hotel—Chief Seattle Club
Seattle, Washington

The Seneca Group

 

The Chief Seattle Club—a spiritual gathering place and provider of crucial services for indigent and homeless American Indians—has a beautiful new home in the renovated Monterey Hotel. Jones & Jones led the restoration of the historic structure, implementing leading-edge green design and construction practices. more

Read the project case study on buildinggreen.com