okay....i havent gotten really an answer about the fifth and yesler office tower....is the design with the curve like cancelled? Are they using that one new design?
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Stalled First Hill project to restart later this month
Construction is set to begin again soon on the First Hill mixed-use project at Eighth and Madison that was stopped just after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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I wonder if they're minimizing the concrete and steel because of cost, requiring boxy designs?
if it's a mall building, rounding off the edges will make it look like something out of the 1960's. I think they're going with more affordable housing than anything else with these smaller projects.
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Progress of 1000 Madison, posted by Joberon in the NWforum:
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I'm reserving judgement on the new Four Seasons Hotel. It would be unfair to arrive at an opinion based on one rather lousy rendering.
Unlike the "old" Seattle Four Seasons - now the Fairmont - which was very traditional elegant - Italianate, lots of frippery, frills and gu-ga - the developers of the new FS are going for a more "zen" feel to the hotel - Asian "minimalist" if you like - clean lines, modern, hip and hushed - very different from what one normally thinks of a Four Seasons Hotel.
Seattle being a gateway city to Asia - this makes good sense, in my opinion. Time will tell if the execution of the "zen" feel of the new hotel is done properly.
Anyone with the ability and free time willing to make a rendering of how all of these new projects will look on the skyline (like from W. Seattle, Queen Anne, etc.) once finished? I'm rather curious to see how these will potentially fill in once completed.
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