Nisqually Tribal Administration Building - Art Only

Womer & Associates, a Spokane-based, Native American-owned design firm, incorporated cultural elements such as flowing water, totems, a salmon's back, and even a mountain peak into its design of this planned new administration building for the Nisqually Tribe, southeast of Olympia, in Western Washington. Womer says it was one of more than 40 design firms that competed for the design contract on the $7.5 million project, for which construction bids are expected to be sought shortly. Anne Hanenburg, a landscape designer with SPVV Landscape Architects, of Spokane, also participated in the project.