City Council Fails in First Attempt to Pass Emergency Bill Setting Up Digital Design...
Onlooker and Seattle City Councilmember alike seemed to wonder what just happened yesterday after the city council rejected an emergency ordinance intended to continue...
Women Shaping Seattle: An Interview With Barbara Swift
Barbara Swift, FASLA, founded Swift Company in 1982. Swift Company is a landscape architecture and urban design practice dedicated to creating powerful places for civic...
Explainer: Why Doesn’t Seattle Have Skyscraper Signs?
The code provision that prevents the city from looking like Blade Runner.
In most American cities, the tenants of downtown skyscrapers have their names written...
Nine Totally Necessary Evolutionary Changes for Seattle’s Residential Neighborhoods
This is probably the first of a series of articles specifically looking at "Single Family" zoning in Seattle and how we pivot to smarter...
Mayor Murray Delays North Precinct Project
Yesterday morning, I attended a Seattle Design Commission meeting on the parking design of the North Precinct building. By the evening, Mayor Ed Murray...
City Releases Draft Design Guidelines Changes for South Lake Union
Last week, the Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development released draft changes for the South Lake Union design guidelines. That guidelines have been...
Sunday Video: History Of Seattle’s Smith Tower
Seattle's Smith Tower was once the tallest building west of the Mississippi and among the tallest buildings in the world. Built after Seattle's Great Fire, it is the oldest...
The Deck is Stacked Against Stacked Flats in Seattle
Once plentiful across the city, small apartment buildings with flats stacked on top of one another are incredibly rare in new construction. The reasons behind that are multifaceted, and stemming the tide will take a push on multiple levels of government.