"Working with the all-star Seattle food+drink space designers at Graham Baba is a big change from the early days of Tacos Chukis. In 2013, we wrote about its first expansion of its original home inside the Broadway Alley. By 2016, Salmeron joined the rush to feed Amazonians in South Lake Union."
Source: Capitol Hill Seattle Blog
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Read More"This sits on the landscape beautifully and creates space for meaningful community. The oasis among the warehouses is functional, sustainable, spatial and formal. The design idea is integral and cohesive. An idea with depth. Occupied spaces are oriented towards the heart of the place - the courtyard, avoiding views towards the surrounding freeway and industrial warehouses; earth berms surrounding the building focalize views out to the landscape and blurring the boundary of architecture and site."
Source: Architect Magazine
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Read More"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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Read More"Like a sophisticated plate-up, the architecture designed by Graham Baba Architects is also layered, bringing together cooking, woodcraft and metalwork in a 263-square-metre open space to create an all-embracing visual harmony."
Source: Floornature
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Read More"Views throughout the thirty-acre complex are controlled, whether to the courtyard, the distant hills, or to the shallow private office views created between the building and the berms. Everything is curated to create a peaceful environment in which to work."
Source: World Architecture News
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Read More"The architects carefully curated the landscape as well, using excavated dirt from the foundation to block views of a nearby highway and open up the more pleasing vistas in the distance. “There’s a circle of earth berms so you don’t see the horizon, but you see hills beyond – you’re not aware of the surroundings,” he says."
Source: Architects + Artisans
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Read More“The only precedent the owner showed us was a dilapidated barn, with very old, black wood falling off the building,” says Brett Baba, partner in Graham Baba Architects. “You could see the diagonal knee braces – the gabled shape and the weathered, angled wood were the takeaways.”
Source: Huffington Post
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Read More"Jim Graham and Brett Baba’s Seattle-based architecture practice boasts a robust portfolio of eclectic projects that evoke a refreshing, distinctly West Coast vibe. This month, the founders of Graham Baba Architects discuss finding balance, defying expectation, and what really brings a space to life."
Source: Hospitality Design
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Read More“Designed by Graham Baba Architects and built by Dovetail General Contractors, the 6,600-square-foot space features white oak flooring, custom blackened-steel tables and stands, and a 45-foot-long light monitor that allows Tagliapietra’s whimsical suspended pieces to hover above gallerygoers.”
Source: GRAY Magazine
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Read More"Tectonic, a digital experience design studio, desired an open workspace that satisfied their simple office requirements while simultaneously providing space for entertainment—a union of work and relaxation. The modest 2,738-square-foot office space is located on the fourth floor of a six-story, mixed-used building in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood."
Source: ArchDaily
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