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The Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth’s Washington School for the Deaf (WSD) is featured in Architectural Record! The article explores the design process—focused on learning and immersion in Deaf culture—and resulting mass timber buildings tuned to support ASL-bilingual communication and community at WSD. Remarkably, the effort reflects both careful specializations aligned to DeafSpace principles and broad relevance to all built environments. Author Joann Gonchar, FAIA, LEED AP sums it up: “This kind of thoughtful consideration of details can improve any educational setting—those for students who are hearing-impaired, or are neurodiverse, or in the general school population.” Read the article: https://lnkd.in/g5KZMUpx Project team members include: Washington State Department of Enterprise Services, project management; Skanska, progressive design-build team leader; Mithun, architecture, interior design and landscape architecture; Hansel Bauman and Robert T. Sirvage, DeafSpace experts; PCS Structural Solutions, structural engineer; Harper Houf Peterson Righellis Inc., civil engineer; Glumac and JH Kelly, LLC, design-build MEP; A3 Acoustics, LLP, acoustics; Dark Light Design, lighting; Halliday Associates, food service; Mayer/Reed, Inc., environmental graphics + signage; O'Brien360, LEED consultant; Säzän Group Inc., Commissioning Agent; The Avidcraft PLLC, specifications; and Qualified Enclosure Consultants, envelope consulting.