When I decided to study Architecture, my father asked me why. My reply: “Because I want to make the world a better place, one building at a time.” I still do.
Hello, I am Jeffrey Moore, founder and Principal Architect of Blue Design PLLC, a small firm that designs both buildings and landscapes. Blue Design marries my twin passions of creating beauty and making it grow. There is nothing more rewarding than making working spaces that work; living spaces that are a joy to live in and growing places that grow and flourish.
Good design is a sublime combination of artistry and technology, a healthy dose of style and whole lot of substance. As a practicing Architect and landscape designer for 40 years, I have come to appreciate the balance between the two. On the one hand, there is the excitement of creating a place – a space – from nothing more than an idea. On the other hand, there is pluck and perseverance to make it a reality.
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Steve Jobs
I have had the good fortune to work for respected design firms large and small, and have had responsibilities in many projects, from big public buildings, such as Seattle Opera’s McCaw Hall to small tenant improvements, like Oleaje Flamenco.
For the stadiums, T-Mobile Park and Century Link Field, my role was to coordinate the design aspects of all twenty engineering consultants, to ensure compliance with building and energy codes, and to design concessions stands and back-of-the-house team facilities.
My favorite projects are those that combine a complex design program and a constrained physical environment. In 2008, when I worked at NBBJ, I lead the design and technical team for the Gossman Center for Advanced Pediatric and Perinatal Simulation.
“The Gossman Center uses life-sized, computer-controlled patient mannequins that represent children and mothers during childbirth. Each is integrated with wireless hardware and advanced software that create preplanned training scenarios mirroring situations calling for rapid response by medical teams.The center incorporates realistic medical spaces that perfectly replicate an exam room, an emergency department and surgical suite. Care teams can train in normal and high-risk clinical situations including pediatric and neonatal resuscitation, childbirth and triage of critical patients.”
J. Green – Nurse.com – Nov 3, 2008
Being an Architect is considered one of the more complicated professions, in terms of architectural design, planning, documentation and construction. My goal is to guide you, as a Client, through a complex – and often baffling – process with simplicity and clarity. I believe in working hands-on and person-to-person. You and your project are my focus.