This building features 75,917 square feet above ground (five comfortable floors) and 110 parking spaces below ground (three floors).

The formerly barren site of the Olympic Sculpture Park has been recently transformed into a significant landscape organized around public art. This bold intervention by the Seattle Art Museum has awakened the slumbering site to the north and created an opportunity to frame the open space with a contemporary building edge. Luxury apartments are planned to take advantage of the unique mix of southern exposure, frontage on the Sculpture Park, and views to Elliott Bay and Seattle’s skyline beyond.

A major design goal is to create a built edge that responds to and enhances the public experience of the Sculpture Park while maintaining a sense of privacy within the dwellings. While the project is in an early programming and conceptual stage, the vision calls for layers of glass “veils” with various degrees of translucency and transparency to create an ephemeral and ever-changing canvas for light and shadow as viewed from the park. Balconies of each unit will feature floor-to-ceiling glass, blurring the boundaries between interior and exterior spaces while providing further solar shading and privacy. Various strategies are proposed to maximize the building’s energy efficiency, including solar shading provided by the glass layers, a significant green roof, and redevelopment of a former public right of way into a pervious hard surface and green space.

This three-story, 70,000-square-foot boutique office building will define the new direction of office development in Seattle’s emerging Belltown neighborhood. Surrounded by residential and retail amenities, the building will house discerning tenants seeking a distinctive identity at a smaller scale than other neighborhood offerings. To optimize the low scale of the project and allow it to nestle into the neighborhood, the third floor is set back along its primary façade facing Third Avenue. In addition, the planted green roof is designed to maximize visual interest from the adjacent taller buildings.