NEXTHouse / David Vandervort Architects
NEXTHouse is a 2,700 square foot, custom-designed home fusing the northwest modern tradition with the highest quality environmentally sustainable building techniques, features, and finishes. It is a speculative venture on the part of the architect, created to demonstrate cutting edge “green” features and modern design in a “for sale” residence.
Architect: David Vandervort Architects
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Project Area: 2,700 sqf
Builder: Paulsen Construction
Photographs: Michael Jensen Photography
West Seattle Residence / David Vandervort Architects
This custom residence is situated on a 3,450 sqf urban infill lot in an established neighborhood in West Seattle. The house was oriented east and west to take advantage of its southern exposure and reduce heating and cooling loads. A compact stacked floor plan containing 1,523 square feet was developed and organized into 3 major zones—living, working and sleeping. The vaulted ceiling living zone, located on the upper floor is situated to encourage views of the city and Cascades, as well as provide an efficient natural ventilation system.
Architect: David Vandervort Architects
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Project Area: 1,523 sqf
Builder: Stonewood Builders
Photography: Michael Shopenn Photography
Cascadia Center for Sustainable Design and Construction / Miller Hull Partnership
Slated to be one of the most ambitious green buildings in North America, the Cascadia Center for Sustainable Design and Construction will be the world’s most energy-efficient commercial building reinforcing the city of Seattle’s commitment to be at the forefront the green building movement. This exciting new building is planning to achieve the Living Building Challenge (version 2.0), as described by the International Living Building Institute.
The mixed-use building will serve as the future headquarters of the Bullitt Foundation as well as provide office and commercial space for leaders in the green building industry. Thursday, May 4th, at the Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, a free community event will present the Cascadia Center. Further details can be found here.
Architects: Miller Hull Partnership
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Project Team: PAE Consulting Engineers, Point32, Schuchart Construction
WhichCRAFT: Dialogues | 2011 AIA Seattle Design Forum
The Pacific Northwest is renowned for its integration of craft into all things built: from the finest home to the fuselage of the Dreamliner. How does this resource influence our design process? Is our romance with craft constraining our approach to design, or is it a unique platform for innovation that will help us respond to new demands on the built environment? How can we position our command of craft to transform the design and building process? Can we drive design expertise more deeply into the process of making buildings?
Join a day of lively dialog with architects, economists, fabricators, business innovators, technology leaders and more as we explore the role of craft in 21st century architecture. Through panel discussions, a “town hall” discussion, and a curated idea slam asking “what is craft,” this one-day event will consider: Localtecture, Digital Production, High Performance Craft, and Craft and the Economy.
The event will take place on June 23. WhichCRAFT? is part of a year-long investigation of the role of craft in 21st century design. For more information and some related events, please click here.
Urban Design Forum to Discuss Seattle’s Civic Square Development
This coming Monday, April 25th the Urban Design Forum presents the opportunity to hear discussion about the stalled Civic Square development and other “interim use” sites in downtown Seattle. Sean Canady from GGLO, Robert Smith from Foster + Partners and City of Seattle representatives will be present. The Seattle Civic Square project, which completes the final phase of a ten-year civic masterplan, provides a vital new focus for Seattle’s civic life, reinvigorating the south downtown area for the whole city’s benefit.
The Urban Design Committee Forum serves the AIA Seattle membership and the community by bringing forward critical issues facing Puget Sound neighborhoods and cities, in order to inform, engage, and support advocacy by AIA Seattle Members and others who share concern for the quality of the built environment. More information about the upcoming event can be found here.
Modular Arts / Heliotrope Architects
Modular Arts is a Seattle-based company that designs and produces technologically advanced gypsum based 3-dimensional wall panel materials used by designers worldwide. Their growing business recently relocated to a light-industrial building with accommodations for both office and manufacturing functions. Heliotrope Architects was brought in to collaborate on the office interior tenant improvement, which required replacement of all existing finishes, systems and furnishings.
Architect: Heliotrope Architects
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Project Area: 2,200 sqf
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Sean Airhart
Treehouse / SHED Architecture & Design
Treehouse is a single family residence located on a park in Seattle, Washington designed by SHED Architecture & Design. Built on an inaccessible, steep slope lot, the project overcame significant design and construction challenges to create a unique home elevated in the trees.
The project had three primary design objectives: to minimize long term site impacts, design a cost effective and resource efficient building, and use view, light and enclosure to accentuate the experience of living in the tree canopy.
Architects: SHED Architecture & Design
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Photographs: SHED Architecture & Design
Turner Northwest / SABArchitects
Architects: SABArchitects
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Interior Design: Nell Studio
Project team: Steve Erickson, Nell Sanger, Christopher Mosier
Project area: 28,500 sqf
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Sam Van Fleet
Mosler Lofts / Mithun
Designed by Mithun, the 12-story Mosler Lofts were the first LEED Silver certified condos in Seattle. An example of how to create value through innovative, sustainable design beyond an initial development vision, this development was 90% sold within the first 6 months on the market due to its highly sustainable features and contemporary design.
Architect: Mithun
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Project Area: 242,800 sqf
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Benjamin Benschneider
Olson Kundig Architects wins two National AIA Housing Awards
Olson Kundig Architects shared with us that the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has honored two of the firm’s projects with 2011 National AIA Housing Awards. Located in Seattle, Washington, Art Stable and 1111 E. Pike, which have both been featured on ArchDaily, have received awards in the Multifamily Living category, and are among the eighteen projects recognized nationwide.
The AIA’s Housing Awards Program was established to recognize the best in housing design and promote the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit and a valuable national resource. More images and architect’s description after the break.
AD Classics: Chapel of St. Ignatius / Steven Holl Architects
The Chapel of St. Ignatius, designed by Steven Holl Architects, is a Jesuit chapel for Seattle University. A series of light volume corresponds to a part of Jesuit Catholic worship service, such as the south facing light corresponds to the procession, a fundamental part of the mass.
The chapel is sited to form a new campus quadrangle green space to the north, the west, and in the future, to the east. The elongated rectangular plan is especially suited to defining campus space as well as the processional and gathering space within. Directly to the south of the chapel is a reflecting pond.
Rainier Vista Boys & Girls Club and Rainier Valley Teen Center / Weinstein A|U
This new 40,000 sqf state-of-the-art facility, located along Seattle’s light rail line, anchors Seattle Housing Authority’s (SHA) Rainier Vista housing redevelopment and has become a vital neighborhood community center. In collaboration with SHA the site plan was designed to maximize the neighborhood pedestrian connections and public amenities, including lighted paths, a new public play area and play field, and pedestrian plazas.
Architects: Weinstein A|U
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Design Principal-in-Charge: Ed Weinstein, FAIA
Project Architect/Manager: Jeff Boone, AIA, LEED AP
Principal-in-Charge of Quality Control: Milton Won, AIA
Design Staff: Chester Weir, AIA and Rosa Folla
General Contractor: Sellen Construction Company
Structural: KPFF
Landscape and Civil: SvR Design Company
MEPFP: WSP Flack + Kurtz
Sustainability: O’Brien & Company
Daylight Analysis: Integrated Design Lab
Specifications: Lottie Eskilsson
Cost Estimating: Davis Langdon
Owner: Boys & Girls Clubs of King County
Project Area: 158,914 sqf (site), 40,265 sqf (building)
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Michael Burns, Chester Weir
Architecture City Guide: Seattle
Our Architecture City Guide series heads to the northwest this week featuring Seattle. The futuristic Seattle Space Needle, designed for the 1962 World’s Fair – Century 21 Exposition, is just one of the many can’t miss buildings on our list. What others do you think should be added? Visit our comment section to share your favorites.
The Architecture City Guide: Seattle list and corresponding map after the break!
Wards Cove Marina Warehouse / atelierjones
Wards Cove is located in the urban residential Eastlake neighborhood along the eastern shore of Lake Union in Seattle. For 100 years, the waterfront property was the Seattle base of the salmon packing operation of Wards Cove Packing Company. In 2002, the company decided to develop its waterfront and adaptively reuse the marine industrial warehouse. Site and marina building renovations were completed in January 2009. atelierjones preserved the property’s rich history, incorporating form and material from preexisting structures into the overall site and warehouse.
Follow the break for drawings and photographs of Wards Cove Marina Warehouse.
Architects: atelierjones
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Design Principal: Susan Jones, FAIA
Project Architect: Greg Bishop
Project Team: Brian Gerich, Drew Giblin, Kristin Saunders
Master Planning: NBBJ
Structural Engineering: CPL, Inc.
Civil Engineering: Layton & Sell, Inc.
Electrical Engineering: Gerber & Vail, Inc.
Landscape: Swift and Co.; Brumbaugh & Associates
Lighting: atelierjones
Acoustical: Sparling, Inc.
Artist: Buster Simpson
General contractor: GLY Construction
Owner: Wards Cove Packing Company
Project Area: 19,850 sqf
Project Year: 2009
Renderings and Drawings: atelierjones
Photographs: Lara Swimmer Photography; Lisa Picard
South Park Library / Johnston Architects
The LEED Equivalent South Park Library is a meeting place and focal point for the rich and diverse South Park neighborhood in Seattle. Johnston Architects incorporated the spirit of the community within their design through material choices, colors, and gathering areas such as the courtyard/front porch space for the neighborhood. Follow the break for a full project description, photographs, and drawings of the library.
Architects: Johnston Architects
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Principal Designer: Ray Johnston
Project Architect: Marc Pevoto
Project Team: Alison Walker Brems
Landscape Architect: Lando & Associates
Structural Engineer: Coughlin Porter Lundeen
Mechanical Engineer: Ecotope
Electrical Engineer: A.E.S. Inc.
Civil Engineer: Coughlin Porter Lundeen
Client: King County Library System
Project Area: 5,000 sqf
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Will Austin Photography
Footprint at the Bridge / 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
Olympic Sculpture Park / Weiss Manfredi
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
Ballard Library and Neighborhood Service Center / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
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
Epiphany School / Miller Hull Partnership
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
Building 115 / Graham Baba Architects
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
Gethsemane Lutheran Church / Olson Kundig Architects
