Olson Kundig, Heliotrope earn AIA awards By JOURNAL STAFF Two Seattle firms won American Institute of Architects 2011 Housing Awards for their Washington projects. Designs by Heliotrope Architects and Olson Kundig Architects are among 18 that were honored. The program, now in its 11th year, recognizes the best in housing design and promotes the [...]
Art Stable / Olson Kundig Architects 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 [...]
Bellingham Tech starts $27M Campus Center By JOURNAL STAFF Bellingham Technical College has started construction of its $27 million Campus Center building. The 72,900-square-foot project is located on campus near Building G. Exxel Pacific of Bellingham is the general contractor and HKP architects of Mount Vernon is the architect. Exxel's bid of $16.35 million [...]
How to build a ‘stress-free’ wood building Start by making bearing and non-bearing walls different heights. By MATT STODOLA Exxel Pacific The information in this article is a culmination of research and experience I’ve gained over the last 22 years in the wood-framing field. I’ve combined a simple new framing technique with a simple [...]
Mercedes-Benz dealership starts building Autohaus in Lynnwood By JOURNAL STAFF Mercedes-Benz of Lynnwood is breaking ground today on a 40,000-square-foot car dealership at 17800 Highway 99 in Lynnwood. The facility will meet the new Mercedes-Benz Autohaus design criteria, which includes curved glass facades, steel overhangs, Mercedes' signature blue columns and a high-tech service department. [...]
Real Estate Buzz: New ideas for West Seattle Triangle By MARC STILES Real Estate Editor It's a stretch to call it March Madness, but for development wonks watching how colleges perform in the annual Real Estate Challenge can be pretty exciting stuff, even in these times of diminished expectations. This year's challenge is a [...]
Woodinville project honored for reusing old apartments The Villas apartments at Woodinville Village won the Gold Nugget Grand Award for Outstanding Renovated Multifamily Projects at the 46th annual Pacific Coast Builders' Conference in San Francisco. Tiscareno Associates, MJR Development and Exxel Construction shared in the honor. The team said in a press release that [...]
Joule apartments take shape on Capitol Hill By JOURNAL STAFF Essex Broadway LLC is building Joule, a 295-unit apartment complex on the former QFC site at Broadway East and Republican Street on Capitol Hill. The owners are a joint venture of the Burkheimer family and Essex Property Trust, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based real estate [...]
Harbor Properties plans two projects in West Seattle By LYNN PORTER Journal Real Estate Editor Hewitt is the architect and Exxel Pacific the contractor for the seven-story Mural Apartments in the Alaska Junction area of West Seattle. Harbor Properties plans to build an approximately 200-unit apartment complex in a West Seattle neighborhood that the [...]
Lumen condos: doing more with less By LYNN PORTER Journal Real Estate Editor When Alan Winningham bought his Belltown condo he requested that it come as is, just the shell. Then he and his partner created a home that combines high design and functionality. Room dividers also act as furniture and storage. Some walls [...]
