SEATTLE | Downtown Projects: Completed, U/C, Proposed/Approved - Page 90

alexjon · #**1781** Posted **Aug 20, 2008, 8:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by colemonkee

That's a nice skyline shot there, alexjon.

Thanks! Went on the locks cruise with my workplace-- it was nice.

Anyway, I just picked up the DJC and it seems Security Properties is going to 40 stories officially on its 8th and Pine Street property.

Aleks · #**1782** Posted **Aug 20, 2008, 8:20 PM**

That's the building proposed for the lot next to the Convention Center right?

alexjon · #**1783** Posted **Aug 20, 2008, 8:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Aleks0o01

That's the building proposed for the lot next to the Convention Center right?

Yeah, which is great since it'll add to the overwhelming feeling of that particular corner.

mhays · #**1784** Posted **Aug 20, 2008, 10:49 PM**

Are you thinking the intersection a block west? This one will still have the vacant lot by the Camlin on the NW corner, and the Convention Place Station void on the NE corner.

alexjon · #**1785** Posted **Aug 20, 2008, 11:11 PM**

Nah, you get a nice perspective looking up from that particular corner with Tower 801 and 2 Union Square in one direction and Olive 8 and (hopefully Ava) in the other.

Hoodrat · #**1786** Posted **Aug 21, 2008, 1:52 AM**

I don't remember that one at all. Is there a render for the 8th & Pine proposal?

Aleks · #**1787** Posted **Aug 21, 2008, 2:30 AM**

There's no official rendering but there's a massing rendering on Urbancondominiums.com. I don't think it's correct though because alexjon pointed out that it will be 40 floors so around the size of O8 and AVA. In the rendering it looks to be a little above 500 feet. It's the orange highlighted one:

Urbancondominiums.com

Has anybody else noticed that Olivian is turned backwards on this image?

genghis · #**1788** Posted **Aug 21, 2008, 8:10 AM**

In response to AleksOoO1's post on 8/04:

(nice pics, btw)

The core on 5th & Yesler is pretty long, but then so is the site. However, it gets reduced somewhat above the 11th floor. (Also, that's where the low-rise elevator bank ends...it's a two-zoned system). As soon as they're done with the 4th floor concrete deck it's going to change over to a steel structure (except for the core). The amount of shear walls below that level needed to hold up "Goat Hill" above was pretty amazing.

I've got a photo of the curtainwall mock-up but I think I'll hold off on posting it for now. The mock-up's on-site though, near the northeast corner of the site so there's nothing preventing anyone else from taking a pic. (at least it was a few days ago) Sadly, most of the interesting curtainwall features got value-engineered out of the project a long time ago.

Aleks · #**1789** Posted **Aug 22, 2008, 4:13 AM**

1521 is nearly complete!

And Escala which is on the 12 or 13th floor.

alexjon · #**1790** Posted **Aug 22, 2008, 5:28 PM**

It's like a mini 2 Union Square now!

seaskyfan · #**1791** Posted **Aug 22, 2008, 7:23 PM**

^ I had that same thought as I was walking down Howell yesterday and could see both of them. It's kind of a 2 Union Mini-Me in darker blue.

Hoodrat · #**1792** Posted **Aug 23, 2008, 6:48 AM**

agreed...not a bad tower to imitate, imo

elysium · #**1793** Posted **Aug 23, 2008, 7:25 PM**

This is out of nowhere, but would anyone else mind if we changed the color of the Colombia Center? I like its look, but black just doesn't reflect Seattle's aesthetic. How about emerald?

Hoodrat · #**1794** Posted **Aug 23, 2008, 9:56 PM**

Keep it black!!!

Aleks · #**1795** Posted **Aug 23, 2008, 11:48 PM**

Black=Intimidating. Intimidating=Big. Black+Big=Columbia Tower.

About 1521, I like it too. I noticed that the fins at the top are the same shape and size they just point different directions. I would've like the West fin to point North instead of South since the building would look much more appealing from West Seattle/Elliot Bay.

James Bond Agent 007 · #**1796** Posted **Aug 24, 2008, 12:55 AM**

I always thought Columbia Center woulda looked better if it was green.

Then we could *really* be called the Emerald City.

Urban Zombie · #**1797** Posted **Aug 24, 2008, 1:35 AM**

Well, if we really wanted to celebrate Seattle's aesthetic sense, we'd change the color of the Columbia Tower to beige.

Hoodrat · #**1798** Posted **Aug 25, 2008, 2:51 AM**

Oh, gawd no!

Funny you should mention that, though. I saw a draft of an altenate proposal for the Columbia Center that hade beige stone cladding. Dunno why the black version won out, but I'm glad it did. The massing and setbacks were pretty similar to what got built, but there wern't the curves. The windows were squarish.

Don't know where I could find that book now, I had my mother the librarian borrow it from another library (maybe the UW) on a loan back in the 80's. It would be cool to see that render (actually it was a model) again.

alexjon · #**1799** Posted **Aug 25, 2008, 3:25 PM**

Line it with green argon lights!

Aleks · #**1800** Posted **Aug 25, 2008, 10:20 PM**

That's what I always wanted to see! Or the "Darth Vader" building. Sometimes I'd like our skyline to have a little bling bling and sparkle. It would make it look even cooler than it already is. But then I think about the energy it would take and about other people who would think it's a bad idea.