Alexander B. Kimball
Alex has a unique ability to organize and
motivate others in a positive direction. He feels alive, healthy and energized
when he is given an opportunity to help a group grow, identify, and pursue
life-giving dreams. He
uses creative thinking and problem solving with positive intention to help
a group articulate and identify the steps and procedures. He is thrilled
to help people as individuals and groups to be growing and thriving in their
journey of becoming who they were intended to be.
His visionary abilities allow him to understand clients and take them to
realistic design and opportunities not considered. His understanding of the
design process for private, civic and public/private development helps them
to see where they are today and where they want to be tomorrow
and having
the skill sets to accomplish the goals.
He is a visionary architect and urban planner that designs
unique places
that deliver memorable experiences and attract millions of people everyday.
In the late 1970’s,
he brokefrom conventional architects who focus
on
advancing architectural forms, to advance the
creation of memorable places
where people can gather and experience a sense of community. Creating places
people gather.
His goal is to ultimately transform the economic
and social landscape of neighborhoods, cities and regions.
They merge public
life, shops, parks, restaurants,
entertainment, housing and nature into
one
place
and set the
bar for the way cities are made.
His portfolio has expanded beyond its retail
and
entertainment roots to
include hotels, conference centers, residential, multi-family and single
family and offices. With these projects in his portfolio he has the
ability and
knowledge to create not just stand-alone architecture.
His designs
use all the pieces and parts of his experiences to create three-dimensional
mixed-use projects of transit-oriented mixed-use hubs; major urban districts;
waterfronts;
town centers; community plans; and visionary master plans.
Highlights of Qualifications:
• More than 35 years of experience
and
an Architectue portfolio that includes hundreds
of built and economically successful
projects.
• Ability to think and question all
possibilities of a project leading
to completely
tested and executed“ on
paper” realities.
• Knowledgeable and talented in all
phases of
architecture including planning, design,
development and construction with in-depth
pre-development, pre-design and
pre-construction
giving valuable wisdom to expand a project’s
vision.
• Ability
to organize and motivate
others in a positive directior.
• Ability to break from convention
to advance
the creation of memorable
places where people
can gather and experience a sense of community.
• Offer conceptual and design services
that integrate
pre-deveopment and leasing strategies,
planning,
architecture
design and landscape design
all of
which “create
a place people gather.
• Expert at three-dimensional mixed-use
projects
including transit-oriented,
mixed-use hubs; major
urban districts; urban
waterfronts; town center;
community plans and visionary
master plans.
• Experience in retail, housing/residential,
public/private, marinas & city
waterfronts, amphitheatres,
marketplaces, multi-use, entertainment, medical
office/clinics, hi-tech offices,
hotels, multi-family housing,
neighborhoods, downtown
revitalizations, parking
and major parking structures.
Professional Experience:
• Designed major regional shopping
centers worldwide and majority of
architectural design work for the Hahn Group.
• Master planning and design work
for Urdan Rehab, City Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — a community for the
new
Capital included low-rise housing, mid-rise housing
and high-rise housing
for 40,000 people, parks,
plazas, schools, retail complexes
and entertainment.
• Designed 2-story Bellevue Square — Bellevue,
WA; Uwajimaya Village & Metropolitan
Park Office Towers —
Seattle,
WA; Philadephia Market Place — Philadelphia, PA.
• Renovation of historical award winning
Adolphus Hotel — Dallas, WA and eight historical
office buildings throughout
Southern California.
• Renovation of historical “Dallas
West End”
including the creation of its entertainment and
downtown district
and the planning and
design of Horton
Plaza — San Diego, CA.
Both as
public private development.
• Designing, developing and constructing
affordable
housing in Washington
State. More than
50 houses sold then for under
$70,000 and would now
be sold today for more than $750,000 each.
• Managed 36 nursing homes and 16
retirement properties. In additiona to operations, secured land and developed
two new 200 unit facilities — Phoenix, AZ & San
Antonio, TX.
• Mixed-use redevelopment of Ontario
Plaza —
Ontario, CA as public
private development.
• Designed Factoria Mall — Factoria,
WA including
remodel expansion and
created vision and obtained
zoning for 800 housing untis over existing parking.
• Partnered with Mulvanny Architects
including
Vista Field Entertainment
District, Factoria expansion,
Columbia Park Visitors
center, Anthony’s
Homeport restaurant — Bellingham,
WA. White center
Salvation Army Community Center — Seattle,
WA
.
• Clover Island master plan and design
of Marinas, flood overflow,
including multi-family housing, hotels, restaurants, waterways,
pedestrian promenades, arks, amphitheatre, bridges, & retails — Kennewick,
WA.
• Southridge Community — Kennewick,
WA a 2530
acre community designedto attract and absorb the
expansion of Kennewick
for the next 30 years and
to provie an attraction for visitors at the city
gate.
• Tulalip Tribes Quil Ceda Village
on the Tulalip
reservation — Marysville,
WA. Master plan and visioning charrettes for the first
of 600-acrew worth ofdevelopments. Casino, tribal gathering
place amphitheatre, outlet mall, retail parking, future
hotel conference center.
• River
Bend Marina and community
master plan development — Pasco, WA.
• Whidby Island Naval Community Center,
Fort Lewis Officers Lodge, Lucky
Eagle Casino
Lodge, Hartman Hotel in Kirkland, WA.
Trained under:
• Carl
Maston, Architect — Los Angeles, CA
• Willis
Boyd, Architect, Inventory — Long Beach, CA
• Nathaniel
Curtis, Architect, FAIA —
New Orleans, LA & Los Angeles, CA.
• Cal
Strab, Architect, Dean of Architecture,
Arizona State University — Tempe,
AZ
• Wright
Foundation — Scottsdale, AZ
• Polo
Solori, Architect, Community
& City Visionary — Scottsdale, AZ
• Charles
Kober, Architect, FAIA — Los Angeles, CA
• Jon
Jerde, Architect, FAIA, Architect, Designer, Planner
Work History:
1972 Charles
Kober Associates,
Architect— Los Angeles, CA
1977 Charles
Kober Associates — Seattle, WA
1980 West
Group, Developmental Partner
1982 John
Jerde, Developmental Partner
1984 Danmore
Corp, Executive Vice
President — Bellevue, WA
1985 Scalter
Kimball Architects, Partner
1987- present Kimball
Architecture,
Owner — Seattle, WA
