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» yep citytank — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 02:10:15 +0000

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By: AGH

AGH — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:32:52 +0000

Dan,
These before and afters are great. Thanks for taking the time to show how the landscape of our city has changed over the past 12 or so months. Not very often we get this kind of perspective in one place. What do you think of the overall building examples you show here? Is out city moving the right direction in terms of type and design of building?

By: Joshua Daniel Franklin

Joshua Daniel Franklin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:10:02 +0000

A capital idea, my good man! As a control, I’ll also get 50-odd cancer affected families to live in one of Seattle Times’ parking lots.

By: dan cortland

dan cortland — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:53:11 +0000

JDF, you’re a life scientist: it’d be great if in 3-5 years you could post the Kaplan-Meier curves for cancer patients sent to stay in the Pete Gross House along with those for patients who stayed in a building that to some of them might resemble a giant wastepaper basket from Pier 1.

By: Joshua Daniel Franklin

Joshua Daniel Franklin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:41:42 +0000

No love for 2201 Westlake (on the right in the 6.24.09: Denny and Westlake pic)? Decent design, LEED Gold, and PATH moved in today. I’ve seen some lights on in the condos so I assume someone’s living there, too. Also, any reason for no building names (SCCA House, Rollin St, Taylor28, etc)?

@10, yes the John and Pontius building is apts for patient family and recovery housing for Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA), similar to the Pete Gross House. There’s also some sort of office space and unfinished retail on the ground floor. And, just a block from Vivace’s Alley24 location.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:02:56 +0000

Thanks for the compilation, Dan. That took a lot of work.

several buildings strike me as missed opportunities (the blank, unmodulated west facade on west 8th, the 5th and Yesler building facade), but overall a lot of solid development. We certainly won’t have as much to praise or complain about in coming years.

By: JoshMahar

JoshMahar — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:20:04 +0000

To think that developers in the first half of the 20th Century were any more concerned about architectural style and “placemaking” than developers today is simply naive. Just like this decade the majority of developers simply wanted to build something they could sell. You really think that Capitol Hill’s millionaires were excited when the first 4 story brick square went up and blocked their views? Of course not! To them they were “ruining the neighborhood”. We only like them today because they have, as Mahanoy so elegantly put it, “seeped into our collective consciousness of what constitutes “Seattle.””

Only time will tell which buildings attract the sympathy that buildings like Oddfellows Hall does today. Personally I love the look of the John and Pontius project (Cancer center?) and 25 on the Park.

Also interesting to note: As wonderful as many people found the old Vivace space, they are actually doing better in the new digs at Brix.

http://crosscut.com/blog/crosscut/18845/

By: mahanoy

mahanoy — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:41:32 +0000

holz @7: “yeesh. what’s with all the mediocre projects?”

Hey, what’s with all the mediocre commenters?