Midweek Video: The Architecture Trend Dividing London’s Elites

Vox looks into why so many rowhouses in London are getting deep basement additions and why wealthy residents are lashing out.

From Surface Parking to Belltown Mixed-Use

Another Belltown surface parking lot will soon meet its doom. In its place, The Natasha (aka 2134 Western Avenue) will rise up as a modern, eight-story mixed-use...

Two New Landmarks Designated In Capitol Hill

Two buildings in Capitol Hill have officially been designated as city landmarks. The Seattle City Council approved the historic preservation controls for the Gaslight...

Sunday Video: Could Breaking The Rules Create Better Apartments?

Uytae Lee of About Here dives into some highly creative apartment designs that we don’t normally see. Could bending the rules a bit deliver...

About That $210 Million Youth Jail…

Block The Bunker activists celebrated after Mayor Ed Murray backed down and put the $149 million North Precinct police building on hold. But they...

Sizeism: Why Small Homes Belong in Fremont and Seattle-wide

The urbanist community spit-taked last week reading a glib op-ed in The Seattle Times that railed against a project planned for Fremont which includes...

N 45th St Apartments

Wallingford is a hotbed for new development with more than a dozen large-scale development projects in the planning and construction phases. Most of this activity...

Sunday Video: The World’s Greenest Building

EarthFix takes a close-up look at the world's greenest building, The Bullitt Center, which just so happens to be in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. https://youtu.be/kHtgie2t5UI