Our fractured metropolitan regions are the big problem in creating sustainable solutions for climate challenges. High-towered, dense city living is only a small part of the solution, which is to develop "ecological urbanisms."
An architect and former City Council member argues for compact urban design, but not at the expense of livability. Density doesn't have to be a dirty word.
Like the skinny houses of two decades ago, dense townhouse projects seem to be everywhere, and they look terrible. An architect and former Seattle City Council member says Seattle can do better.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer architecture critic Lawrence Cheek makes some excellent observations [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/ae/349055_architecture29.html] about the new urban renaissance of residential high-rises in downtown Seattle, praising design qualities of the recently completed 5th and Mad
For 40 years, the exterior of the 1916 building has been blighted by 1960s-era aluminum panels. There had been $109,000 in the $4.9 billion King County budget to study restoration of the exterior, but it was vetoed by Executive Ron Sims. In his debut as a Crosscut writer, architect and former Seattl
