Harbor Urban has big plans for 2013 By NAT LEVY Journal Staff Reporter Harbor Urban has a busy year ahead with eight projects in the pipeline and a new business partner. The development company said it is teaming with the Carlyle Group, a Washington D.C.-based global investment and asset manager, on at least two [...]
Olson Kundig, LMN win AIA honor awards By JOURNAL STAFF The American Institute of Architects recently recognized projects by two Seattle architectural firms in its 2013 Institute Honor Awards. The awards honor excellence in architecture, interior architecture and urban design. The 28 winners were selected from more than 700 submissions. For a complete list [...]
Jansen Art Center By JOURNAL STAFF Jansen Art Center opened in August in the former Lynden City Hall and Fire Hall at 321 Front St It was renovated into gallery for the arts, with studio and workshop space for dance, music, pottery, painting and jewelry. The center is 20,000 square feet by combining space [...]
6 win design awards from NWAIA By JOURNAL STAFF The Northwest Washington chapter of the American Institute of Architects has picked the winners of its 2012 design awards. There are three levels of awards: honor, merit and citation. The Glen Hunt Award recognizes work that integrates architecture and landscape; the young architect/intern award goes [...]
Saturn Building opens, just across the street from the Fremont rocket The office space can be as small as 152 square feet. By JON SILVER Journal Staff Reporter Current listings start at $456 a month, including heat and electricity. Many of the walls aren’t structural so smaller offices can be combined into spaces up [...]
GreenHouse Apartments By JOURNAL STAFF GreenHouse Apartments at 3701 S. Hudson St. is the first new market rate housing to be built in Columbia City since 1969. The building is targeted for LEED gold certification, with irrigated rooftop gardening plots for each resident, a rooftop greenhouse, communal dining space, and edible trees and shrubs [...]
Resmark, Intracorp to build 273 apartments in northeast Seattle By JOURNAL STAFF Resmark Apartment Living said it has teamed up with Seattle-based Intracorp to develop two northeast Seattle apartment buildings. One is a seven-story, 161-unit building at 4545 Eighth Ave. N.E. in the University District, and the other is a six-story, 112-unit building at [...]
Northwest School adds $15M building to Capitol Hill campus By JOURNAL STAFF The Northwest School on Capitol Hill will break ground on a $15 million multipurpose building at 10 a.m. Thursday. The site is at 401 E. Pike St. The 31,000-square-foot, two-story building will house a full-court gymnasium, two-tiered dining room, a 175-seat black-box [...]
Jasper by Alta By JOURNAL STAFF Jasper by Alta is a 91-unit luxury apartment building in the Wedgwood neighborhood at 8606 35th Ave. N.E. in Seattle. It was designed to be a small community surrounded by trees in a low-density residential area. The idea was to offer spacious floor plans as large as 1,400 [...]
Urban agriculture takes root in Seattle With open space at a premium, designers are looking to the rooftops for P-patches and gardens. By BRIAN RUNBERG Runberg Architecture Group Seattle’s urban communities are vibrant enclaves where the idea of smart growth, densification and sustainable lifestyles are on the rise. With public open space at a [...]
