Articles Tagged with ''Seattle''

With more than $33 billion in its asset trust endowment, the Gates Foundation is the wealthiest charitable entity in the world. But it wanted to send the right message with the architecture of its new home: bold but not arrogant, global but also a good neighbor.

A two-story, 218,500-square-foot public high school with classrooms, a student activity center, a multipurpose forum for presentations and lectures, a library, TV and radio studios, a gymnasium, and offices.

A storefront from the early 1900s, which had served as a drugstore and soda fountain, is converted into a live/work space for a couple in the real-estate business.

Built on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, Seattle boasts a history of fishing and nautical trade.

The Seattle Streetcar was created in an effort to transform Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood into a vibrant urban community.

Ano-nonsense brick structure built in 1910 to house Chinese laborers, the East Kong Yick Building lacked the kind of architectural features that provide excitement when an old building becomes a museum.