Woo-hoo! 1521 is definitely topped out! Took this shot today of the top and the fin skeleton is up. I also went up to the Columbia Tower today and O8 looks amazing from the 40th floor. I couldn't take pictures at the time but I'll get some later on this week.
I just had to post it:
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Just walked down Virginia - looks like the steel at West 8th is up to the 15th floor. The 1918 8th core looks like its up to the 4th floor. Also, over on Stewart - they seem to be close to completing the 3rd floor (there's a Ness crane there while the big one is not in operation).
As the Four Season's exterior gets closer to completion, it seems obvious that the designers should have their acrchitecture credentials revoked. Anybody who stayed at or visited the (Four Seasons) former Olympic Hotel will re very disappointed. The Fairmont will certainly not have to worry about losing too many rooms to the new Four Seasons.
Unfortunately, the Four Seasons will probably be a huge success due to its sweeping view of Puget Sound and closely situated near the Lusty Lady. I'm sure some of the higher floors and the condos can use binoculars to scout out the drug dealers at the park next to Pike Place market.
The designers forgot the Four Seasons is supposed to be a regal and stately hotel. The design does not deliver on this image. The building lacks any personality or concept that justifies the distinction of a 5 diamond hotel (AAA) or 5 star hotel by other publications.
Now I'm heading to the airport to get a view from above. The pictures will be here tomorrow or Friday!
As the Four Season's exterior gets closer to completion, it seems obvious that the designers should have their acrchitecture credentials revoked. Anybody who stayed at or visited the (Four Seasons) former Olympic Hotel will re very disappointed. The Fairmont will certainly not have to worry about losing too many rooms to the new Four Seasons.
Unfortunately, the Four Seasons will probably be a huge success due to its sweeping view of Puget Sound and closely situated near the Lusty Lady. I'm sure some of the higher floors and the condos can use binoculars to scout out the drug dealers at the park next to Pike Place market.
The designers forgot the Four Seasons is supposed to be a regal and stately hotel. The design does not deliver on this image. The building lacks any personality or concept that justifies the distinction of a 5 diamond hotel (AAA) or 5 star hotel by other publications.
Now I'm heading to the airport to get a view from above. The pictures will be here tomorrow or Friday!
I love the Four Seasons-- like I've said before, it's a simple re-imagining of the old brick and mortar style of previous stately hotels. Those that stay in this hotel will more than likely be dot com money and probably have more than a passing appreciation for the fact that this is an iPod-era rehash of the Beaux Arts style. I can see this hotel fitting in well in the Met Tract a few blocks up.
Of course, nobody would complain if this were in Bellevue. It'd be seen as "edgy" and signs of an "up-and-coming city" full of zing and zow
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^I agree, I first thought it was horrendous and then it slowly grew on me. Now I think it's a really nice building. And reading that article on The Stranger made me look at it in a different way.
And I do think it has personality. It's a one of a kind building which takes the green design to a whole new level. It was literally designed to be part of nature not just to help improve it.
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Its growing on me, also. I will never love it, but it is decent. I am so glad they didn't slap on faux history to the tower. It really looks like it "isn't there" if you know what I mean, just sort of blends in and goes away.
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Looks like all activity at 8th and Seneca has been halted. I went by the site Tuesday morning and they're no farther ahead in demo then they were when I went by there in late March.
Looks like all activity at 8th and Seneca has been halted. I went by the site Tuesday morning and they're no farther ahead in demo then they were when I went by there in late March.
Back then they said construction was scheduled for this summer. So it's really not an indication.
Avalon Holdings sells stake in stalled 1 Hotel project
By DAN RICHMAN
P-I REPORTER
Portland-based Avalon Holdings has sold its partnership share in a stalled downtown Seattle building to Starwood Capital Group Global LLC, of Greenwich, Conn.
The partnership has been developing 1 Hotel and Residences, on the east side of Second Avenue between Pine and Stewart streets, which planned to offer condominiums that also were used as hotel rooms. But construction of the 23-story, $250 million project, which was announced in October 2006, was halted in August 2007 when it became clear the hotel-condo concept wasn't proving popular. Fewer than 25 hotel-condo rooms had sold by February of this year, Avalon said at that time.
Of the 176 hotel-condo rooms originally planned, only 44 were included in a redesign in February. The other 132 were to be replaced by 192 smaller, conventional hotel rooms.
The site currently is a hole in the ground. In February, Avalon said construction would begin by July and the building would be completed within two years after that.
Paul Brenneke, Avalon's president, couldn't be reached for comment Monday or Tuesday. Through a PR agency, Starwood declined to further discuss its plans for the project.
But in an e-mail Monday, Starwood expressed confidence in its idea.
"We ... continue to have tremendous long-term confidence in the Seattle market," wrote Dan Schwaegler, Starwood's vice president of asset management. "We believe that Seattle is the perfect location for a 1 ecologically focused hotel and residential project, and know it will not only be successful, but also a welcome addition to the Seattle landscape."
Schwaegler couldn't be reached for further comment Tuesday.
The tallest of the new ones at that spot, at around 500', will be right in the "Space Needle" gap. That area is becoming an extension of the CBD proper. My how things change.
Since the first proposal had a 46 story tower at 550 feet, I imagine this will be 500-520 feet.
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