"One of the primary aspects of the project is its flexible design: it was designed to morph depending on weather or functional requirements and flexible enough for multiple uses and purposes. This emphasis on versatility was one of the main intentions for the project, according to Leann Crist, the project manager and architect at Graham Baba."
Source: The Registry
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Read More"Block 41, a party and event space, has opened in a former warehouse at 115 Bell St. in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood The 15,000-square-foot building has three indoor event spaces on two levels and a courtyard. It can accommodate more than 800 people."
Source: Daily Journal of Commerce
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Read More"The building's plan frames views of nearby hills. An expansive use of glass, overhangs, and arcades creates a strong relationship between indoors and out. The warm material palette contrasts with the more industrial structures elsewhere on the site. It's a handsome building and a very inviting place to work."
Source: Gray Awards
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Read More"The scissor columns comprise two Douglas fir glulam members angled at different directions—one lists inward toward building and the other stands perpendicular to the roof slope. Delicately crossing each other before tying into twin steel posts, the columns anchor into concrete piers."
Source: Architect Magazine
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Read More"Part arts initiative and part residential development, 325 Westlake merges old and new structures to create a building that preserves the character of the existing building and the site, while ensuring its continued usefulness."
Source: AIA Seattle
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"The Hangar is a civic building with a 1,000-square-foot cafe operated by Diva Espresso and rentable community spaces with integrated storage. The building has a prominent canopy, porch-like stoop, an operable window wall, geothermal heating and a green roof."
Source: Daily Journal of Commerce
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Read More"Both tenants and customers are attracted by the funky charm of these spaces, as well as the shops, bars and restaurants that fill them. Jim Graham said the projects work because the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. They also provide an antidote to the vanilla spaces big chain outlets tend to occupy. There are buildings, such as Melrose Market, that have a charm “that we don't want to bulldoze over,” he said. “Those buildings just need a little bit of care and thought to become something special, and Graham Baba has shown an ability to do so.”
Source: The Daily Journal of Commerce
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