Take a tour of our recent site visit to the Metropole Building.

Our renovation of the historic Metropole Building is designed to have an Energy Use Index (EUI) that is about half that of a new office building in Seattle. As our most ambitious adaptive reuse project to date, Metropole has high-impact goals for environmental stewardship, social justice, and historic preservation. It will have a mixed-use program of community spaces focused on social justice and equity, coupled with sustainability goals designed to meet LEED Platinum, aspects of the Living Building Challenge, The Seattle 2030 District, and Salmon-Safe Certification.

Owner: Satterberg Foundation
Structural Engineer: @swensonsayfaget
LEED Consultant: O’Brien 360
Mechanical Engineer: Ecotope
Electrical Engineer: TFWB
Civil Engineer: LPD
Landscape Architect: KKLA
Acoustic Consultant: @ssa_acoustics
Masonry Consultant: Speweik Preservation Consultants
Envelope Consultant: @Rdhbuildingscience
Lighting Designer: @weare_darklight
Specifications: ABI. General
Contractor: W.G. Clark

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The reality versus the rendering—our Washington Park project is complete.

Our design of the Washington Park Building blends contemporary functionality with historic architecture. Located in the Pioneer Square Historic District, we designed a facade renovation and a seismic retrofit that includes steel-braced frames and concrete shear walls. A new mezzanine serves double duty as additional tenant space and mid-floor support for the unreinforced masonry walls.

Washington Park Developer: @lakeunionpartners and @unicoproperties
General Contractor: WG Clark Construction 
Structural Engineer: @cpl_inc 

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The new Lakewood Interim Library demonstrates creative problem-solving and design innovation to deliver public infrastructure to the community.

When the Pierce County Library system closed the aging and dilapidated Lakewood Library, the library system secured a nearby site for an interim library. We proposed using modular, prefabricated construction to implement the new interim library as quickly as possible. This strategy allows site and building construction to happen concurrently, minimizing the time Lakewood is without a library. Our design features 13 modular units that are currently under construction in Oregon but will soon be trucked to Lakewood where they will be craned and set on the prepared site. We designed the building so that after its intended use, the library system will be able to disassemble, add, or remove units to modify the library's size or reassemble it on another site within the system.

Swipe for a behind-the-scenes look at where the units are being created. 

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