Backyard Cottages: Return of the DADU
Last Wednesday, Councilmember Mike O'Brien hosted a well attended Lunch and Learn at Council Chambers featuring a panel of four detached accessory dwelling unit (DADU)...
Light Rail for Belltown: A Possible Solution
Potential new light rail lines for the upcoming Sound Transit 3 ballot measure were clarified further after a recent Sound Transit board workshop. From...
Incentive Zoning Helps Bring In $45 Million For 809 Affordable Apartments
Seattle's Office of Housing is set to make the largest annual investment to affordable housing in its history, as Mayor Ed Murray's office announced...
Lidding I-5 in Downtown Seattle: Design Guidelines and Moving Forward
In yesterday's article, I went over some of the characteristics of I-5 in Downtown Seattle and offered some temporary solutions for mitigating the effects...
Lidding I-5 in Downtown Seattle: Site Analysis and Interim Solutions
Yesterday's article went over cost estimates and offered three freeway lid case studies across. In this third piece on lidding I-5, I will summarize...
Lidding I-5 in Downtown Seattle: Cost Estimates and Case Studies
Yesterday, I covered the need for lid parks in Downtown Seattle and what they should be used for. In this article, I look at (very...
Lidding I-5 in Downtown Seattle: The Time To Act Is Now
Amid Seattle's rapidly growing inner neighborhoods remains the urban scar of I-5, a massive concrete and steel ribbon that is the lasting legacy of...
Sunday Video: Architecture Turning Dreams Into Reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyNGDWnmX0U
To world-renowned architect Bjarke Ingels, architecture is the fiction of the real world, in which dreams about the way we aspire to live our...