Tech Amazon's new campus: stiff architecture that stints on the fun Seattle artist Ann Gardner's glass-tile mosaic, "Convergence," is on a facade of the NBBJ-designged building on the Amazon complex. by Lawrence Cheek / August 3, 2011
Politics Gates Foundation campus: Can everyday function and global ambition coexist? The cantilevered ends of hallways are like compact glass nests, some with stunning views. by Lawrence Cheek / June 2, 2011
Culture Why does Seattle have so many bleak public spaces? This city has enough gray in its sky. We don't need more on the ground. by Lawrence Cheek / May 17, 2011
Politics The tyranny of the right, architecturally speaking NBBJ's 505 Union Station building: trying a little too hard. by Lawrence Cheek / March 28, 2011
Best of 2010: Three new buildings point up 'The Skyscraper Problem' 2201 Westlake, a LEED Gold status winner by Lawrence Cheek / December 26, 2010
Environment Seattle's live-work spaces: Commuting is such a breeze Architect Tom Kundig likes gears. by Lawrence Cheek / November 17, 2010
Culture Lake Union Park, trail: Seattle could have done so much more Lake Union Park: a visual airway for the city, but a bleak landscape for a park. by Lawrence Cheek / October 20, 2010
Politics Finally, a renaissance on UW's Gothic campus The "back" side of the UW's Paccar Hall, showing how the various boxes and planes fragment the large scale of the building (and make it a better neighbor). by Lawrence Cheek / October 14, 2010
Paul Thiry: pioneer of architectural modernism in Seattle Architect Paul Thiry, a proponent of modernism, designed the original Seattle Center Coliseum, now called KeyArena: This is structure as sculpture. by Lawrence Cheek / June 23, 2010
Culture In modern church architecture, the magic of sacredness is rare A service inside the new First United Methodist Church by Lawrence Cheek / March 2, 2010
