SEATTLE | 600 Wall Street (Laconia) | 440 FT | 43 FLOORS
Tall tower on tiny site by Space Needle will be apartments
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Reading Material: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/b...al%29&page=all Slideshow: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/g...9%26page%3Dall Renderings: http://seattle.curbed.com/archives/2...rendsrings.php |
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Thanks for posting. The building plan has improved in some ways like taking out that red at the base and going blue-silver. Still think it's missing a nice crown treatment.
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Didn't a proposal before the recession for this site have a cool crown? Like a circular ring of some sort?
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Yes, it did. They did away with it for some reason. It's missing that opportunity and an opportunity to replace the uneven height rectangles with some other feature.
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If Seattle is so rich, why is their architecture so mediocre? Are they too far from sensitive minds?
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1. Seattle's rents and prices are far lower than Manhattan's, leaving less room for crazy designs and expensive materials.
2. We're a seismic zone, which encourages stronger and more straightforward structural designs including more use of concrete in lieu of or along with steel. 3. We're not a trailblazing city architecturally, and our process doesn't encourage it. Design review is about not offending rather than breaking the mold. 4. Our zoning is very restrictive relative to heights (all buildings in nearly all areas) and floor area ratio (commercial buildings in all areas). This means land in highrise and even lowrise (say 65') zones is very expensive. Developers need to maximize square footage. Nobody does a setback or geometric shape unless it fits with the pro forma. |
DESIGN REVIEW BOARD PDF:
58 Pages with renderings and info. Everything you need to know about this project. PDF: http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/G...endaID4744.pdf I took a couple of images from the pdf. Several more but just some I thought where nice. http://virtual-host-discourse.global...4cf971d3c4.png http://virtual-host-discourse.global...fb8e3eddfc.png http://virtual-host-discourse.global...4ba3d65d4c.png http://virtual-host-discourse.global...dba4f25164.png |
Seattle Project Snags Investment from Chinese Developer
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7/26 to 7/28/2020 Update:
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