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 [...]

Harbor designs 160 workforce apartments for Fremont site By JOURNAL STAFF Harbor Urban showed plans for 160 apartments in Fremont earlier this month to a city design review board. The four-story building at 3635 Woodland Park Ave. N. would have a mix of live-work units, studios, one- and two-bedroom units, and townhouses. A two-level [...]

Harbor Urban encouraged by pace of leasing for Alto units Most tenants are in their early 30s, and work for Amazon, Gates, Microsoft and on First Hill. By MARC STILES Journal Staff Reporter The first wave of new apartments are coming on line, and the early results for one project show why developers are [...]