523 Broadway Ave. E. Developer: Essex Broadway LLC Architect: Matt Driscoll* Broadway’s going beige and soon to be renamed Belltown Hill. Here’s one side of the new condos across the street from Brix, and what we have to look forward to in the future. Yes, something needed to be built on the lot, but why [...]
1605 E Pike St. Developer: unavailable Architect: Weber + Thompson Quality contemporary design. See, it can be done. You’d think it was rocket science . . .
Brix condominiums – 530 Broadway E Developer: Schnitzer West / Architect: Mithun Gallery condominiums – 2911 2nd Ave Developer: Schnitzer West / Architect: Mithun Twenty-Five on the Park condominiums, (unfinished) – 1800 11th Ave Developer: The Dwelling Company / Arctitect : hiding Auction Madness!! Bargain Insanity!! All Out Bidding War!! So what went wrong here, [...]
752 Bellevue Ave E Developer: Urban Seattle LLC Architect: Urban Seattle LLC It’s just amazing what you cannot do with paint and corrugated metal. You cannot turn a 1950′s motel lowrise into “live urban.” You cannot obscure the fact that what it really needs is a little swimming pool, an ice dispenser, a Coke machine [...]
Pine and Belmont St. Developer: Murray Franklin How’s that Pike/Pine lifestyle working out for all of you? By now, many of you know how this story goes. Once there was a great historic block of bars, small shops and no Cingular, Subway sandwiches, Starbucks, suburban sprawl ugliness etc… All was torn down to make way [...]
