Architecture

Midweek Video: Seesaws In The Middle Of NYC’s Broadway

https://vimeo.com/384352456 Streetfilms shows Manhattan’s Broadway continues to evolve as a people place. It now features people riding seesaws in the middle of the street instead...
Rendering of residential towers and mixed industrial maker space with proposed salt water marsh. BE 405/505 project group “Urban Assemblage.”

Armory Development Authority Could Unlock Visionary Interbay Plans

Last week, the Washington Department of Commerce released a report about the future of the Interbay Armory site. After months of deliberation, their blue...

Midweek Video: In Search of Effective Pedestrian Malls for U.S. Downtowns

https://youtu.be/-Tg9IMCKa5M In the 1960s and 1970s, pedestrian malls were seen as a way to save struggling shopping districts in cities across America during the rise...

In Pursuit of the Affordable Backyard Cottage

Last summer when the Seattle City Council passed legislation that encouraged development of backyard cottages across the city, the move was generally met with...

Downtown Seattle Association Zeroes In on Third Avenue Pedestrian Improvements

Third Avenue is easily the most important transit corridor in all of Seattle. The street carries more than 52,000 passengers on weekdays via bus....

Architects to Honor Best New Seattle Buildings November 4th

As summer turns to fall, so turns our lives from a season of sunny exuberance to one of cool reflection. Vacation is over and...

A New Skyline for a New Seattle

“Beyond a certain critical mass each structure becomes a monument, or at least raises that expectation through its size alone, even if the sum...

Midweek Video: Why Europe Doesn’t Build Skyscrapers

https://youtu.be/EVJ_rgEUSJE In this video, The B1M explains why European cities do not typically build skyscrapers while the rest of the world is increasingly doing so....