Courtesy of Johnston Architects

With sweeping views of the Cascades, Lake Union and just blocks from the exciting and eclectic Fremont district, this project consists of seven private town homes with shared underground parking in a cornerstone location.  Sustainable building practices were employed throughout the design process and the project is seeking LEED Platinum certification status. Johnston Architects decided that in order to achieve the LEED rating for this project it was imperative to embed sustainable principles into the process from the get-go encompassing both the natural and urban environments while utilizing unique green practices.

Sketches and photographs of Footprint at the Bridge following the break.

Architect: Johnston Architects
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Principal in Charge: Marc Pevoto
Project Team: Ray Johnston, Sara Imhoff
Landscape Architect: Outdoor Studio, LLC
Structural Engineer: BTL Engineers
MEP Engineer: Ecotope
Civil Engineer: Springline Design, LLC
Building Envelope: JRS Engineering Corp.
LEED Consultant: O’Brien & Co
Client: Jason Morrow
Project Year: 2009
Project Area: 3,859 sqf
Photographs: Courtesy of Johnston Architects

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Envisioned as a new urban model for sculpture parks, this project is located on Seattle’s last undeveloped waterfront property – an industrial brownfield site sliced by train tracks and an arterial road. The design connects three separate sites with an uninterrupted Z-shaped “green” platform, descending forty feet from the city to the water, capitalizing on views of the skyline and Elliott Bay, and rising over existing infrastructure to reconnect the urban core to the revitalized waterfront.

Architects: Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Project Team: Marion Weiss and Michael A. Manfredi (Design Partners), Christopher Ballentine (Project Manager), Todd Hoehn and Yehre Suh (Project Architects), Patrick Armacost, Michael Blasberg, Emily Clanahan, Lauren Crahan, Beatrice Eleazar, Kian Goh, Hamilton Hadden, Mike Harshman, Mustapha Jundi, Justin Kwok, John Peek, and Akari Takebayashi
Structural and Civil Engineering Consultant: Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Consultant: ABACUS Engineered Systems
Lighting Design Consultant: Brandston Partnership Inc.
General Contractor: Sellen Construction
Geotechnical Engineering Consultant: Hart Crowser
Environmental Consultant: Aspect Consulting
Aquatic Engineering Consultant: Anchor Environmental
Graphics Consultant: Pentagram
Security and AV/IT Consultant: ARUP
Catering & Food Service Consultant: Bon Appetit
Kitchen Consultant: JLR Design
Retail Consultant: Doyle + Associates
Project Management: Barrientos LLC
Architectural Site Representation: Owens Richards Architects
Client: Seattle Art Museum
Project Year: 2001-2007
Photographs: Benjamin Benschneider, Bruce Moore, Paul Warchol

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A multiple award winner for design excellence and sustainability, the Ballard Library and Neighborhood Service Center offers a dramatic face along the street and an extended front porch gathering space for its neighborhood.  Designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, the building is located on a gently sloping site diagonally across from a new city park and leads toward Ballard’s center one block away.  Follow the break for further project description, photographs, and drawings of the new library.

Architects: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Location: 5614 22nd Avenue N.W, Seattle, Washington, USA
Principal for Design: Peter Q. Bohlin FAIA
Principal in Charge and Project Manager: Robert Miller AIA
Project Architect: David Cinamon AIA, Associate
Project Team: Zeke Busch, Stephen Gibson, Nguyen Ha, Darren Lloyd, Jessica O’Brien, Steve Mongillo, Eric Walter
Structural Engineering: PCS Structural Solutions
MEP Engineering: Affiliated Engineers
Civil Engineering: Rosewater Engineering, Inc.
Landscape Architects: Swift Company LLC
Lighting Design: Candela
Acoustical Engineering: The Greenbusch Group
Security: Sparling
Cost Engineering: The Robinson Company
General Contractor: PCL Construction Services, Inc.
Owner: The Seattle Public Library City of Seattle, Department of Neighborhoods
Project Area: 15,000 sqf library and 3,600 sqf neighborhood service center
Project Year: 2005
Photographs: Benjamin Benschneider, Nic Lehoux, and Courtesy of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

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The Epiphany School is a recently opened expansion of a Pre-K-5 school in the Madrona neighborhood of Seattle. The project includes a new classroom building and a public art space, and in order to make way for the new building, four houses were removed from the site, with two of them relocated to other parts of the city. The architectural character of the project mimics the scale of the neighborhood and consists of individual roof forms.

More photographs and drawings following the break.

Architects: Miller Hull Partnership
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Owner: Epiphany School
Owner’s Rep: The Warren Company
Contractor: Sellen Construction Company
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Benjamin Benschneider

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The design goal of Graham Baba Architects of Building 115 was to acknowledge the unique site requirements, provide a unique solution to housing in an urban core, and to have a close collaboration with the client, contractor, and architect. The resulting mixed-use building includes 1 retail space, 2 commercial offices, and 1 residential unit. Building 115 recently received a 2010 AIA Seattle Honor Commendation Award.

Follow the break for drawings and photographs of this project.

Architects: Graham Baba Architects
Location: Fremont, Seattle, Washington, USA
General Contractor: D. Boone Construction
Structural Engineer: Swenson Say Fagét
Surveyor: Geo Dimensions
Geotechnical Engineer: Associated Earth Sciences
Channel Glass Manufacturer: TGP Pilkington Profilit
Project Area: 2,640 sqf
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Michael Matisse and Graham Baba Architects

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The seven-story, five unit adaptive live-work space is designed for residents who want to both live and work in the city. Art Stable, is situated on a plot of land previously housing horse stables. A recipient of the 2010 AIA Seattle Citation Honor Award, the urban infill project features large art doors, manually operable by a custom-designed hand wheel and hinge. The 80′-5″ hinge terminates at a rotating davit crane on top of the building.

A collaboration between architect, client, engineer, builder, and fabricator resulted in a hinge mechanism that opens 8 foot tall by 12 foot long steel clad doors on all seven levels. The vertically stacked art doors face the alley side of the building and provide a great ease in moving large materials and/or art pieces into and out of each unit.

Architects: Olson Kundig Architects
Location: Seattle, Washington
Design Principal: Tom Kundig, FAIA
Managing Principal: Kirsten R. Murray, AIA
Project Manager: Kudo-King, AIA LEED AP (Construction Documents and CCA) and Jim Friesz, AIA LEED AP (Schematic Design through Design Development)
Project Architect: Jeff Ocampo, LEED AP
Project Team: Sky Lanigan, LEED AP, Wing-Yee Leung, LEED AP, Ming Yuan
Graphics: Kevin Scott
Project Area: 25,556 sqf
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Point32, Tim Bies/Olson Kundig Architects

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Lost in Nature: The Architecture of Jarmund/Vigsnæs opens September 17 and runs through November 14, 2010. Contemporary Norwegian architecture is among the most vibrant in the world today, and this exhibition features a collection of work by the renowned Oslo-based architecture firm Jarmund/Vigsnæs (see their projects right here). Through photographs and models, the exhibition highlights architectural projects that focus on close relationships with Norwegian nature. Lost in Nature is supported in part by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The exhibition will take place at the Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, USA. For more information, visit the museum’s official website.

The Global Design Competition of Seattle, WA USA calls for entries of integrated function, high efficiency, low carbon restaurant designs toward the goal of creating a shareware reference resource of design solutions and services directory for participating design teams. Our design objective is low carbon restaurants, by any means possible, including but not limited to reduction in the need for electricity, food menu and ingredient choices, localized power generation and waste energy capture and reuse.

For more information, please visit the competition’s official website.

What is FutureShack? While many think of architecture as grand, historic buildings or the latest artistic showpiece, it is more often found in the dwellings that we see every day. What is the future of home design? How will it affect you and how can you get involved? FutureShack helps us discover, through examples around our city, what makes good design work. A panel of design professionals and public advocates will lead a discussion focusing the key issues facing our communities when it comes to design.

The event will take place September 15 starting 5:00pm, at Seattle Center Fisher Pavilion. For more information and tickets, go to the event’s official website.

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Architects: Workshop Architecture|Design
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Principal in Charge: Steve Bull, AIA, LEED
Project Team: Dan Rusler, James Steel
Interior Design: LairDesign
Structural Engineering: HSV Engineers
General Contractor: Lair LLC
Project Area: 3,750 sq ft
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Workshop Architecture|Design

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Architects: Lead Pencil Studio
Location: Queen Anne Neighborhood, Seattle, USA
General Contractor: SR Company – Redmond, WA
Project Area: 3,600 sq ft
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Ben Benschneider

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Architects: Olson Kundig Architects
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Design Principal: Tom Kundig
Managing Principal: Kirsten R. Murray
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Tim Bies & Francis Zera

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Architect: Floisand Studio
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Owner: Name Withheld
Contractor: Wilcox Construction
Project Area: 1,800 sq ft
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Matt Vaagsland

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PIQUE often engages in the practice of Guerrilla Architecture. In an effort to exercise their design process, critical eye and interest in the urban fabric, they undertake subversive interrogations & interventions. This latest research project for the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park is one such project that is beginning to get some real traction.

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HyBrid Architecture + Assembly‘s building system, coined “Cargotecture”, offers a sustainable, modular and affordable alternative to traditional construction methods.  The Seattle-based architecture and general contracting firm recently created the first cargo container buildings for Seattle in the design district of the Georgetown area.

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Architects: Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Principal in Charge: Rick Sundberg
Year: 2008
Photographs: Lara Swimmer

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This is -by far- one of the most inspiring projects I know. And it´s not just the skin or the structure. It´s the new program relations, that make of this more than a mere library, but an enhaced public space around knowledge.

Architects: OMA + LMN
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Key Personnel: Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus (Partner-in-Charge), with Mark von Hof-Zogrotzki, Natasha Sandmeier, Meghan Corwin, Bjarke Ingels, Carol Patterson
Consultants: Arup, Bruce Mau Design, Davis Langdon, Dewhurst Macfarlane, Front, HKA, Hoffman Construction, Inside/Oustide, Jones & Jones, Kugler Tillotson, Magnusson Klemencic, McGuire, Michael Yantis, Pielow Fair, Quinze & Milan, Seele
Client: Seattle Public Library
Program: Central library for Seattle’s 28-branch library system, including 33,700 sqm of hq, reading room, book spiral, mixing chamber, meeting platform, living room, staff floor, children’s collection, and auditorium, and 4,600 sqm of parking.
Project year: 1999-2004
Constructed Area: 38,300 sqm
Budget: US $169.2 M
Photographs: Ramon Prat, Philippe Ruault, Iwan Baan, Fernando Herrera

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The guys from Pb Elemental Architecture sent us their latest house in Queen Anne, Seattle.

More pictures & architect’s description after the break.

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Architects: Pb Elemental Architecture
Location: Seattle, Washington, US
Structural Engineer: Pangeo
Landscape: Volz Landscaping
Constructed Area: 2.940 sqft (273 sqm)
Project year: 2007
Construction year: 2008
Photographs: Pb Elemental Architecture

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