Expedia Planning Massive Expansion For Interbay Campus
Image: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Expedia announced in April that it was taking it's roughly 3,000 employees and moving from Bellevue to Amgen's former 750,000 square-foot Interbay campus. Now comes news (courtesy of DJC) that they've got big plans for an expansion. The online travel company has field a shoreline substantial development application to add approximately 1.2 million square feet of new office space and 2,070 parking spaces. The plan would mean four existing buildings would be expanded and a new 546,000-square-foot structure would be constructed. Expedia could now end up with as much as 1.9 million square feet of space as well as parking for 3,300 vehicles. That's very good news considering so many of their current employees live on the Eastside. This expansion is the first part of a 15-year plan to improve the campus though it's still to be determined if future phases will happen.
· Expedia plans major expansion on its Seattle waterfront campus [DJC]
· Expedia Relocating From Bellevue to Amgen's Former Campus [CS]
· Expedia plans major expansion on its Seattle waterfront campus [DJC]
· Expedia Relocating From Bellevue to Amgen's Former Campus [CS]
Why Modern Architecture Came Back, and How it Looks Now
Hufft Projects' Baulinder Haus, Predock_Frane Architects' Venice House (photo by Nicolas O. Marquez), and a Neutra addition by Johnston Marklee.
Last year, the Kansas City-based firm Hufft Projects completed their challenging and intricate restoration of the Snower House, designed by famed architect Marcel Breuer in 1954. Located in the upscale neighborhood of Mission Hills, the 1,900-square-foot home is a Modernist gem. With its flat roof, archly rectangular structure, open living areas, and cantilevered first floor, it is a classic example of what Modernist architects were rightly renowned for: light-filled interiors, the use of industrial or readily available materials (in this case, cedar siding), and the creation of small, elegant spaces that were joyously livable. Robert Snower and his wife lived in the house until the former died in 2013 at the age of 90, almost sixty years after moving in. "It is determinedly minimalist," said architect Matthew Hufft, "right down to Breuer's use of color on the exterior." When Snower's family came to sell the house, aware that the lot value in the neighborhood now outweighed the actual value of the house, they found a couple, Robert Barnes and Karen Bisset, intent on preserving it.
Curbed Cup Round 1 Results! Down Goes Capitol Hill
And then there were eight. The first round of competition in the 2015 Curbed Cup is in the books. There were upsets! There were blowouts! There was even one showdown separated by one singular vote!
Top-seed Ballard survived a challenge. Mount Baker continued Capitol Hill's crummy run in the Cup with an upset win. Belltown outlastedLeschi while South Lake Union upset Greenwood on one measly vote. Fremont took down Pioneer Square, The Junction kept West Seattle in this, Georgetown advanced and defending champ Columbia City flexed it's muscle with the most dominating win of the round. The second round starts up on Monday. Get your voting finger ready now...
· All Curbed Cup coverage [CS]
· All Curbed Cup coverage [CS]
Seattle Opposes Ride The Ducks Recommendation; Bertha's Latest Breakage Won't Stop Progress
· City opposes recommendation to allow return of Ride the Ducks [ST]
· Let the 'Star Wars' frenzy begin, Seattle-style [ST]
· Love City Love finds a new home on Capitol Hill [CHS]
· Bertha's broken arm interrupts work on restart tests [ST]
· 19th and Mercer building sells for $25.1M [CHS]
· Is this 9/11 memorial too big for a small Washington town? [MyN]
· Longtime Sisley property near Roosevelt High burns [Kiro]
· An Introduction to RapidRide+ [STB]
· It's time for a transportation revolution east of Lake Union [SBB]
· WeWork to open third location in Seattle with room for 600 new members [GW]
· Sound Wall for Wallingford? [WH]
· Let the 'Star Wars' frenzy begin, Seattle-style [ST]
· Love City Love finds a new home on Capitol Hill [CHS]
· Bertha's broken arm interrupts work on restart tests [ST]
· 19th and Mercer building sells for $25.1M [CHS]
· Is this 9/11 memorial too big for a small Washington town? [MyN]
· Longtime Sisley property near Roosevelt High burns [Kiro]
· An Introduction to RapidRide+ [STB]
· It's time for a transportation revolution east of Lake Union [SBB]
· WeWork to open third location in Seattle with room for 600 new members [GW]
· Sound Wall for Wallingford? [WH]
This Week in Strange, Weird & Terrible Seattle Real Estate Listing Photos
As the weekend approaches, let's take a look around the Seattle real estate listings to find some examples of the strange, the weird and just the plain terrible. (Come across one we missed? let us know…)
Have we ever told you about the whole "first impressions" thing?
Cornerspotted: Hanging Out on 20th & Alder
Yesterday, we asked you to guess where this 1925 Central Seattle street scene is located is located. It's a pretty tough one. Matt M. entered a guess of 19th & Cherry which was very close so we'll give him half-credit. But it's actually 20th & Alder.
Image: Seattle Municipal Archives
Pretty cool to look around at that and the surrounding blocks and see some of the same houses that stood back then. But of course, it's mostly new buildings, especially in the distance. Time marches on.
· All Cornerspotter coverage [CS]
· All Cornerspotter coverage [CS]
Get To Gardening This $3.4M French Country Farmhouse Estate
Maybe it is possible for one person, or one couple to tend gardens so pristine, formal, and regimented; but maintaining sanity may require maintaining a gardening staff. This French Country Farmhouse is 5,900 square feet; which may be more appropriate for someone named Louis or Marie, than for a peasant growing some grapes. The house sits on 1.38 waterfront acres in Des Moines. Location may explain much of the $3,388,000 price. Luxury explains a lot of it, too. The wine cellar isn't just a cellar but a wine tasting room; and then there's a wine counter to complete the wine experience. The wine counter is accompanied by a pie counter and a cheese island. Food plays a big role, evidently; and the house has a kitchen to match. If it was all about the dirt and the food there'd be a lot more pragmatism to the rest of the house; but the rest is expressions of luxury and formality. Chandeliers and ornate fireplace mantels are the counterpoint to the earthier parts of the residence. It was built in 1937, but major modern touches are now included, like the 12 seat, luxury upholstered theater. The house only has 3 bedrooms and 4.5 baths, so if a dozen are watching the movie you're probably entertaining them with more than a movie and popcorn. How about some pie, cheese, wine, and maybe something from the garden? But, no cake. Don't let them eat cake. That's why there's that pie counter. So why hasn't such a jewel sold in over a year? Maybe someone's still trying to find enough folks to tend that garden.
WSDOT Is Having Some Fun With Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Unless you've been hiding inside a dead tauntaun to keep warm for the last month, you know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens today. If you're looking for someone, you can probably find them at the local multiplex wearing 3-D glasses and looking up at the screen slack-jawed. WSDOT decided to have some fun on Twitter today and broke out their best Star Wars puns and memes. Plus, each account has adopted it's own theme, with WA Ferries apparently turning to the Dark Side.
Here's a look at I-90 Snoqualmie Pass. Chains are required for all vehicles except all wheel drive & AT-ATs. pic.twitter.com/6SQ2pXAG68
— WSDOT Traffic (@wsdot_traffic) December 17, 2015
P-I Globe Officially a Landmark; City Council Considers I-5 Lid
· It's official: P-I globe is Seattle landmark [ST]· Portland's Dignity Village cleared path for Seattle's housing for homeless [ST]
· Northwest real estate find: Whidbey Island estate with views and more views[PI]
· Seattle City Council talks I-5 lid [K5]
· TBT: Back When Seattle Had Streetcars [ish]
· Fana Group buys site in Bellevue for 2 towers with hotel, housing [DJC]
· 25 million reasons it's good to have a Linda Derschang restaurant in your apartment building [PSBJ]
· PLU And UW Say They'll Consider An Outside Bid For KPLU [KPLU]
Image: [Seattle Municipal Tower as seen from The Columbia Tower, via clydefr0g]
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10 Important Buildings We Lost in 2015
Clockwise from top left: Orange County Government Center (Goshen, New York); Portland Gas & Coke Co. Building (Portland, Oregon); Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital (Morris Plains, New Jersey); Harry Sythe Cummings House (Baltimore, Maryland); Belleview-Biltmore Hotel (Clearwater, Florida); Hotel Okura (Tokyo, Japan)
As architecture publications use the end of the year as a signal to anoint the year's best designs—or, in the case of Curbed architecture critic Alexandra Lange and Mark Lamster, create a more entertaining and exhaustive list of superlatives—it's also a good time to re-examine and remember great architecture that's been lost. New designs traffic in optimism and excitement, and while you can see the fresh facade and almost smell the coat of new paint in project photos, the building's ultimate impact on the environment is still an unknown. Landmarks or great structures that are destroyed leave no such mystery; the understanding of how they fit into the community makes their destruction that much more unpleasant. We asked Docomomo, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Curbed editors to identify some of the most noteworthy preservation losses of 2015.
Is Amazon Turning Seattle Into The Next Detroit?
Jim Russell recently published a piece at Pacific Standard that could probably be taken one of two distinct ways. His theory is that Seattle is primed to be the next Detroit. Now, if you're first thought is that Detroit doesn't look so hot these days, you might think this is all doom and gloom. But he actually means it the other way. That Detroit was the American city that dominated in the machine age thanks to it's partnership with a massive game-changing company: Ford. In recent years, it's been Silicon Valley and Intel that dominated the computer age.
Cornerspotter: Hanging With The Boys in 1925
Cornerspotter is the Curbed Seattle feature in which we show you a historical photo taken somewhere in the city and you identify the location. Impress fellow Curbed readers with your knowledge by leaving guesses in the comments or send them to our tipline: seattle@curbed.com. We'll post the answer on Friday. And hey: no cheating!
Seattle Municipal Archives
Back in 1925, you could find the boys just hanging out on this street corner doing...whatever it is the boys did in 1925. Today this Central Seattle block is way more tree-lined but it's cool to see some of those exact houses straight-ahead still standing. It's also a central spot with a high school just a few blocks one way and a college a few blocks the other way. So we suppose it wouldn't be too surprising the find a similar scene to this in 2015 as well. Any idea what intersection we're at?
Curbed Cup 1st Round: (8) Green Lake vs. (9) Georgetown
The Curbed Cup, our annual award for the Seattle neighborhood of the year, is kicking off with 16 locales, hubs and 'hoods vying for the prestigious (fake) trophy. This week we'll have two matchups per day, and all the results and the full tournament bracket will be reviewed on Friday. Voting for each pairing ends 24 hours after it begins. Let the eliminations commence!
Green Lake made it to the second-round last year, it's best showing to date. Will it be able to move further this year? Sure, Green Lake has the shops and restaurants and trendy places to hang out, but it's also got a big-ass lake. How many Seattle neighborhoods can say that? It's also got a bunch of classic Victorian houses mixed with modern renovationsin a family neighborhood that's updating itself slowly but surely. There may be trendier places to be in Seattle on a weekend, but few places nicer.
Curbed Cup 1st Round: (7) Columbia City vs. (10) Alki
The Curbed Cup, our annual award for the Seattle neighborhood of the year, is kicking off with 16 locales, hubs and 'hoods vying for the prestigious (fake) trophy. This week we'll have two matchups per day, and all the results and the full tournament bracket will be reviewed on Friday. Voting for each pairing ends 24 hours after it begins. Let the eliminations commence!
Columbia City comes into the 2015 Curbed Cup as the defending champso there's clearly a target on their back. That's fine, CC has been playing the role of underdog long enough to know what to do. Seattle is known for its mix of cultures, but few places in the nation are as diverse as Columbia City. It's also one of the greenest communities in the country. For some reason, everyone wants to build their eco-friendly home here. Despite that, there's also still bargains to be found. That's an impressive accomplishment all things considered. It also doesn't hurt to have Columbia City Theater, Geraldine's and a convenient light rail station at your disposal as well.
Out of The Local Logs Came This $700K Duvall Cabin
Here's one approach to sustainability: build a log cabin from trees logged on site. Someone did that in 1989 for this 3 bedroom, 1.75 bath rustic home. That may be unconventional in 2015, but that's the way log cabins began. They're asking $699,000 for the 1,774 square foot house and the 5.23 acre property. With that much land there's plenty of room for the 32 x 32 shop, the 10 x 12 garden shed; and of course, the garden. Rustic means you can relax. Rustic means fewer worries about nicks, scratches, and occasional splinters because they'll blend in with the others from 26 years of being lived in. Relaxing may be the greatest luxury. The other luxurious feature for the buyer is a $200,000 price drop from the initial listing. A few months on the market will do that. In the meantime, the trees are growing, the firewood is probably aging nicely, and any buyer gets the opportunity appreciating what it takes to fell a tree, slice it up, split it, haul it, and burn it - or build yet another log cabin. There's more than enough wood, and proof that it can be done.
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