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Architects: The Miller Hull Partnership
- Area: 800 ft²
- Year: 2008
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Sky Ranch / The Miller Hull Partnership
Ritual Room / goCstudio
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Architects: goCstudio
- Area: 1315 ft²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: FritsJurgens, Edge, Europly, Regency, Wood Concepts
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Professionals: J Welch Engineering
325 Westlake / Graham Baba Architects
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Architects: Graham Baba Architects
- Area: 19910 ft²
- Year: 2018
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Professionals: Sparling, Brian Paquette Interiors, Inform Interiors, JRS Engineering, Lighting Designs Inc., +2
Westside School / SKL Architects
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Architects: SKL Architects
- Year: 2017
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Professionals: RDH, Gibson Traffic Consultants, JMB Consulting Group, Kirtley‐Cole Associates LLC, Pace Engineers, +3
Hillside Midcentury / SHED Architecture & Design
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Architects: SHED Architecture & Design
- Area: 2250 ft²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: AXOR, Hansgrohe, Miele, Subzero/Wolf, Kohler, +1
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Professionals: Ambrose Construction
Grasshopper Studio and Courtyard / Wittman Estes
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Architects: Wittman Estes
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: Daly's Wood Stain, Pacific Resources, Smooth Face, Taylor Metal Products, Vancouver Bay
University of Washington West Campus Utility Plant / Miller Hull Partnership
Architecture's Evolving Role: How Community-Engaged Design Can Encourage Social Change
The role of the architect—and even architecture itself—in society today is changing. A lack of interest in critical social issues from a profession that holds such high responsibility within a community is a problem that should no longer be avoided.
In an exhibit currently on show at the Center for Architecture and Design in Seattle titled "In the Public Interest," Garrett Nelli Assoc. AIA challenges the profession of architecture to establish a focus on more community-engaged design. With the help of the 2017 AIA Seattle Emerging Professionals Travel Scholarship, Nelli traveled to Los Angeles, rural Alabama, Haiti, Italy and New Orleans, all the while analyzing how the built environment has the ability to influence social change.
Read on for an edited interview with Nelli about his research and how you can begin to implement elements into your design practice to help promote social change in your own communities.
Substantial HQ / goCstudio
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Architects: goCstudio
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Blu Dot, Crystalite, Emtek, Muuto, Schoolhouse Electric
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Professionals: Montlake Associates llc
Gentrification, Alienation, and Homelessness: What Really Happens When Amazon Moves to Town?
This article was originally published by Common Edge as "A Seattleite Reflects on the City in the Age of Amazon."
At first, it was just a crane or two, a little urban renewal down on Westlake, a rumor that Paul Allen was cleaning things up, wanted a huge park with bike trails. I thought that might be nice and didn’t think about it again for a while.
No park happened, but one day I went down to the new Whole Foods below where I work and noticed that a whole habitat had sprung up on Westlake, an expensive Mexican chain restaurant and an expensive Italian place and an expensive Thai place, and some expensive after-work bars. I also noticed small groups of men, all white or Indian and all wearing lanyards. These groups moved around the streets, talking animatedly, freshly out of their cubicles and going to lunch, oblivious to whomever else was on the street.
Arena at Seattle Center Aims for NHL Expansion Team with $600 Million Populous-led Renovation
Seattle’s historic KeyArena is set to receive a $600 million renovation that will transform the venue into the region’s “premier sports and entertainment destination” as part of plans to launch the city’s first-ever NHL team.
Designed by Populous, the renovation will open up the arena to its surroundings, specifically the 72-acre Seattle Center, site of the 1962 World’s Fair and home to the currently under-renovation Seattle Space Needle. As part of the project, the sports venue will be rebranded as “The Arena at Seattle Center.”
Amazon's Futuristic Checkout-Free Convenience Store Opens with Just a Few Kinks
Amazon’s innovative, checkout-free convenience store concept, Amazon Go, has opened to the public in Seattle.
Located in the base of an existing Amazon office building, the 1,800-square-foot (167-square-meter) store offers grocery and convenience items. To begin shopping, customers simply scan an Amazon Go smartphone app and pass through a turnstile.
Using machine learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence technologies (incorporated into the software powering cameras and weight sensors), the store can then track the actions of customers as they remove items from the shelves, creating a virtual shopping list as they go. When a customer is finished shopping, they simply exit the store through the turnstiles and the user’s Amazon account is automatically charged.
Sound Transit U Link University of Washington Station / LMN Architects
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Architects: LMN Architects
- Area: 157 ft²
- Year: 2016
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Professionals: Northlink Transit Partners
400 Fairview / SkB Architects, Kendall/Heaton Associates
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Architects: Kendall/Heaton Associates, SkB Architects
- Area: 337000 ft²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Big Ass Fans, Morin Corp., Americlock, Arcadia Inc., Concrete Collaborative, +6
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Professionals: Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Shen Milsom & Wilke, PanGeo, Swift Company
House for a Mother & Daughter / Robert Hutchison Architecture + Tom Maul Architecture & Design
Capitol Hill House / SHED Architecture & Design
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Architects: SHED Architecture & Design
- Area: 2458 ft²
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Professionals: Dolan Built, Harriott Valentine Engineers
The Top 10 Predicted Cities for Amazon's HQ2 (And Why HQ2 Will Be a Major Urban Catalyst for the Winner)
The bidding process for HQ2, Amazon's second headquarters in North America, reached a crescendo last week as the submission deadline drew close. While 238 American cities scrambled to submit proposals and run campaigns in the hope to woo Amazon—or as Slate witheringly described the process, "The Bachelor: Corporate America Edition"—the internet abounded with all sorts of discussions on the project. Does our city have what it takes to house the second headquarters? How would HQ2 affect the selected city? Why are smaller cities submitting proposals when they clearly don’t meet the criteria? Can we predict which cities are more likely to make the cut?
Unique Scaffolding System is Lifted into Place for Olson Kundig's Space Needle Renovation
Construction has begun on the Olson Kundig-led $100 million renovation of Seattle’s most iconic structure, the Space Needle.
With work taking place 500 feet above the ground, the project demanded a unique alternative to traditional scaffolding: a 28,000 pound platform surrounding the tower that was hoisted to a position just below the observation Tophouse.
New drone footage shows how this platform, manufactured by scaffolding company Safway, was constructed at 100 feet above the ground, and then lifted into place and secured. According to Century Project, the structure represents “one of the largest lifts of Safway scaffold ever completed and it’s one of the company’s biggest scaffolds in circumference.”