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Architecture

Sunday Video: Paper City

https://vimeo.com/67658001 Paper City by Maciek Janicki on Vimeo. Just in time for the holidays, a beautiful video of a snowy, paper city.

Tweet of the Week: Mismatch in style and height is A okay

  Last week, yours truly was in New York City. Streetscapes like the one in the tweet below were very typical whether in Manhattan, the...

South Bellevue Final Design

On November 6th, Sound Transit held an open house for the final design of East Link's South Bellevue Station. East Link is a light...

Housing, politics and a basic pride of place

Fifth in an illustrated series about place-decoding from the South of France. What do the politics of urban housing have to do with a seasonal...

Living with yo ‘rents

Multi-generational housing has seen steadily increasing demand throughout Northern Europe, and stateside as well. The concept even hit the NYT late in 2012.  While I don’t...

A new parklet for the U District, fundraising begins

Freshly painted parklet goodness, that's what we spotted a few weeks ago. We got curious about these alien markings in the street and decided...

New parklet opens at 25th and Union this Sunday

This Sunday is the grand opening of Seattle's newest parklet, aptly named the 25th and Union Parklet. In the heart of the Central District, the...

An architect’s perspective: The details of microhousing projects

Editor's note: This is a cross-post by David Neiman, founder of Neiman Taber Architects, a local architecture firm that designs microhousing projects.  We recently designed...