To meet federal standards by 1995, Seattle's City Council directed the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle/ King County to expand the 1962 plant at Puget Sound's West Point and upgrade it in 1997 to a $578 million high-technology secondary wastewater treatment facility handling more than 130 million gallons of sewage daily. Citizen opposition to expansion of the plant, located close to Discovery Park's shoreline, was immense. Therefore, the conditions attached to the permits required the design to improve environmental qualities of the existing site. These conditions became Danadjieva & Koenig Associates' guidelines for the master planning, architecture, and landscape design of this $25 million environmental mitigation. In charge of the visual architecture and landscape architecture image, Danadjieva & Koenig Associates worked for ten years (from1988 to 1997) in collaboration with the owner - King County (formerly Metro), the client CH2MHill, the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation, diverse government agencies, citizen groups and consultants to meet approval requirements.

Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Planning