A one-stop shop provides comprehensive health-care services to patients in northwest Seattle.

For a global firm like Perkins+Will, each year offers the chance to rethink spaces as leases expire and real-estate needs change.

In a retail center about 20 miles south of Seattle, just off the interstate, a former Circuit City has found new life as an outpatient clinic for Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Secrecy and privacy. Hiding in plain sight. These are themes Mike Mora of Heliotrope Architects toyed with while drawing up the designs for this Portage Bay residence, a 2,500-square-foot home for a bachelor that replaced an existing structure.

The owners wanted a compact single-family home on a sloping site that would afford views of the natural surroundings, including Lake Washington and Mount Rainier.