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Modern, natural, and sustainable, Method Homes designed by Balance Associates Architects. With styles ranging from the humble cabin styles suitable for the suburbs to the DADUs (modern minimalism at its finest!), Method Homes has a variety of styles to simplify your architectural experience. Their website also has a comprehensive list of pricing all under $300,000 for stylish new home.
Place Houses motto are three terms Seattlelites and environmentally/ aesthetically conscious can relate to: Smart, affordable, and green. The houses consist of pre-designed/pre-fab homes in sizes of tiny, extra small (“accessory”), small, medium, and large. Clients can choose from a range of materials to suite their aesthetic with largely recyclable materials. Their living room designs look so cozy and comfortable!
1880-2010: Two Lectures by Professor Jeffrey Karl Ochsner
Co-sponsored by the Seattle Central Library and Seattle Architecture Foundation
The two lectures will provide an overview of 130 years of Seattle’s architectural history, beginning about 1880 (when the city’s population was only 3500 people) and extending to the present day. The lectures will address broad architectural and urban developments, a range of building types and stylistic directions, and the major architects who shaped the architecture of the city and region. Each lecture will run about 90 minutes allowing time at the end for questions.
Jeffrey Karl Ochsner FAIA has taught at the University of Washington for over 22 years. He is the author, co-author or editor of three books and numerous articles addressing Seattle’s architectural and urban history.
Upcoming Event Date
When: Part I, 1880-1940, Saturday, April 10, 1 - 3 pm
Part II, 1940-2010, Saturday, April 17, 1 - 3 pm
Where: Microsoft Auditorium, Seattle Central Library, 4th & Madison Entrance
Cost: FREE. No registration required.
The Ace Hotel has a swank reputation for offering temporary urban dwellings for the those loathsome of cheap, gaudy interiors prevalent in the arena of affordable hotels. The hotel chain strives to offer its design-conscious clientele a welcoming juxtaposition of industrial metal beams and cabinets with varnished wooden floors and desks. The minimalist lighting shines upon details such as a cot-style bed and vintage sofas.
Seattle’s Ace Hotel has a much more humble function than its counterparts, such its New York branch, a fashion hot spot known for housing parties and an Opening Ceremony. The Seattle Ace Hotel is located at 1st avenue and Wall street, close to fine dining, entertainment, and of course, our famous Pike Place Market. Guests have the option of single or double beds with the convenience of easy access to amenities in their studio-style units.
All This Grace and Charm reviews the hotel:
An Ace vacationer once said, “Ace is everything you need and nothing you don’t,” which is exactly true.
Destined for the real estate boom of the late 1950’s to late 60’s, Hilltop managed to garner investors, an audience, and muscle power of the most innovative architects from the Pacific Northwest during the time. It was formed by progressive-thinking architects and their friends in 1948 and located near Bellevue. The Hilltop community lies within King County’s boundaries but secluded enough to avoid the noise of the city. The creative surge following WWII created an abundance of opportunities for a select group of architects, university professors, and and professionals to set out and pave the way for landscaped design plans. Arguably, the landmark project established many architects that continued to define the landscape throughout the upcoming decades. The Seattle Times has more coverage:
Many of Hilltop’s principles were so forward-looking they are considered modern now: a home and its site should be in harmony with the land, yet contemporary in appearance. Views should be preserved, but nature respected. People should work together for the common good and enjoy the result in common.
Here’s an article and interview with architect, Charles Anderson, a resident of Hilltop: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw10072007/2003916597_pacificpcharles07.html
some images of his home:
Bottomley and Onions spent eight years remodeling the deconsecrated church. They lifted most of the floors by about four feet so that the stained-glass windows would be closer to eye level. “The whole place was built to invoke awe,” Bottomley says. “We had to figure out how to make it work for the psychology of domestic use.”
A Paris : éditions Albert Morancé, 30-32, Paris, 1927, First Editon.
In French. Quarto, 11.5 inches (28 cm.) high.
Each leaf and plate has been individually and carefully attached to a paper hinge, and the hinges were then sewn and bound with marbled end-papers in marbled-paper covered boards with cloth spine and corners. The original portfolio covers were then attached on top of the new covers.
A building by Le Corbusier in Nantes, France.
Local “boutique” design firm darling, HhLoDesigns founded by Henry H Lo creates beautiful spaces for the modern and eco-friendly minded. Henry H Lo has been working since 1991, receiving his Bachelors of Architecture from the California Polytechnic University in Pamona in 1996, and his Master of Architecture in 1998 from the University of California Los Angeles. Lo won the AIA Seattle Honor Award in 2007 for his Live/Work Loft which combined a spacious creative studio area in addition to a living room and resting space.The scale of the firm’s designs range from residential houses to commercial constructions, which has brought them considerable recognition these past few years.
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Some highlights of Lo’s designs:
Capitol Hill Residence
HhLoDesigns Live/ Work Loft
We are simply in love with local design firm superstar, Pb Elemental. The company made it to Seattle Magazine’s Top 50 Northwest Architects list in January 2009, having completed an array of residential, commercial, and landscape projects. As stated by Dominic Holden in an article about the firm last year for The Stranger, “They have released some of …the most striking conceptual design work in the city—a welcome relief from the nondescript crap around town.” Stylistically, we have seen an increase in innovative, modern, and space-efficient residential additions in such neighborhoods as Capitol Hill, Ballard, West Seattle, and Rainier influenced by the popularity of the firm’s solutions. (The years of homogeneous Seattle townhouse hell are a thing of the past!)
This upcoming year, Pb Elemental is set to finish construction on several private residences with a hotel and landscape projects in the works. The proposal for the Trophy condo building is also still in the planning stages, but we anticipate to hear much more about the construction plans this year.
Below are some highlights taken from Pb Elemental’s homepage:
Crockett Residence (2008)
Lake Part Condos (2009)
Dearborn Lofts (2008)
Today’s focus is on local Ballard architecture firm, Heliotrope, whose designs are vibrant as the color their firm is named after. Past clients of theirs include Spring Hill restaurant in West Seattle, the interior architecture of Alchemy Collections, and the restoration of the Madrona library. The firms private residences, however, are the true gems highlighting their skills for innovative solutions that truly “provide a haven for the type of creative thought that leads to inspiring design.”
Below are a few highlights of our favorite designs from Heliotrope. You can view the rest on their site.
Passive House
North Beach
Doe Bay
Free Time Industries believes that all aspects of your life can be comprised of beauty and well-designed objects. Our backgrounds range from Industrial Design [Kate Bailey], Architecture [Amber Murray], and Printmaking [Ariana Budner]. We’ve come together to design products and concepts that will, ideally, make life more splendid.
Their work (48 Popular States & Laser Nature) can be seen at BoConcept’s Pop-Up Gallery, til Jan 31st.
All photos via/For more info: http://freetimeindustries.com
ADAMS MOHLER GHILLINO Architects.
The three principals work closely with a small staff and remain personally involved in every phase of every project. While small in size, the firm has been recognized for its work in a broad range of project types. Projects include custom single-family houses and remodels; restaurant and retail interiors; and commercial adaptive reuse and renovation. The different project types inform and influence one another in a symbiotic manner to form a single body of work. Four values are central to the practice of the firm: Collaboration, Design, Service and Environment.
(Photo above, via Lotushaus)
One of my favorite places in Seattle is Remedy Teas on Capitol Hill, I recently discovered that it was designed by a firm, just upstairs from where I work. The space is very modern, unique to the city, and with an emphasis on typography in their aesthetic…not to mention their tea (they have tea cocktails!) and snacks are great!
ADAMS MOHLER GHILLINO Architects is located in the Maritime Building (same building as BoConcept!), at 911 Western Avenue, Suite 550, Seattle, WA, 98104.
The firm’s work has been recognized for its inventive and intelligent solutions. The team engages structure, space, landscape and surface to find intelligent and inventive opportunities in the art of building. Space, site, context, structure, and finish are repeatedly balanced, unbalanced and rebalanced during the design process in search of the best fit.
Underlying all E.Cobb Architect’s projects is a commitment to modern design. The freedom of this abstract vocabulary enables extraordinary flexibility in the making of space, defining circulation,opening for light, and composition of materials. The work is program driven, abstract open, fluid and light filled, carefully detailed.
E. Cobb Architects Inc. is located in the Maritime Building (same building as BoConcept!), at 911 Western Avenue, Suite 318, Seattle, WA, 98104.
Filmmakers Michael Bernard and Gavin Froome will take us on a journey from Los Angeles to Vancouver; from 1922 up to the present exploring modernist architecture on the West Coast. A core group of architects embraced the Coast with its particular geography and values and they have left behind a legacy of beautiful and inspired dwellings. Today, architects have picked up the thread and they continue to explore and celebrate the principles established by their predecessors.
Interviews with architects, photographers, and dwellers of modernist houses will be featured.
The modernist houses themselves will take centre stage, shot in high definition: the open plans, simplicity of form and integration of site will awe and inspire.
View the trailer here: Coast Modern Film
