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2021 Best of Year winner for Kids Zone. Steeped in museum design in general and children’s spaces in particular—Noah’s Ark at Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, and its counterpart, The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, for example—Olson Kundig was right at home planning the phased overhaul of this 7 ½-acre experiential campus for kids in the Golden Gate National Recreation area.

The Century Project at the Space Needle: 2020 Best of Year Winner for Entertainment January 18, 2021 Photography by Nic Lehoux. More than five decades after opening for the 1962 World’s Fair, Seattle’s iconic Space Needle needed a reboot. The revolving restaurant creaked in the flying saucer that architect John Graham conceived to top the slender tower. Guardrails, security cages, and other barriers added over the years blocked the view. Local firm Olson Kundig removed add-ons and in nearly...