Posted Fri, Sep 16, 9:12 a.m.

I hope that I never have to sit next to any of these people on an airplane. Airplanes (like schools, public transportation, workplaces, etc) should be a place where you don't have to listen to a minister tell you why you need to go to church. I suspect that the ...

Posted Fri, Aug 5, 7:33 a.m.

@Rniemi, There are many great examples of commercial architecture in our city: *The WaMu tower (the newer one, now Russell Investments)by NBBJ. I love this building. I look out my office window everyday, appreciating the way the mass of the building is shaped by different volumes with subtly varied textures. ...

Posted Thu, Aug 4, 1:41 p.m.

Thanks for calling attention to the let down in public process, urban design and architecture that is SLU. It's office park meets urban scale. Who cares if Paul Allen was willing to donate land to make a park. When voters said they didn't want to pay to build and maintain ...

Posted Wed, Jun 15, 9:32 a.m.

@Tom9, I'm totally with you on the bad aesthetic sensibilities of city planners, and the insane codes they try to place on design. And I love mid-century modern design and communities like Hilltop, my point was just they aren't examples of Landscape Urbanism as it has recently been defined. Seattle ...

Posted Mon, Jun 13, 3:51 p.m.

My comments above were for @Tom9 as well. But thanks Andy, I agree!

Posted Mon, Jun 13, 2:24 p.m.

There seems to be quite a bit of misappropriation of landscape urbanism in what you have written. I too followed the debates between “new urbanists” and “landscape urbanists”. I’ve never heard of any landscape urbanists opposing urban growth boundaries (UGB’s) carte blanche. It would be wonderful to read how you’ve ...

Posted Thu, Mar 31, 8:46 a.m.

Thanks for "elevating the design discussion" in Seattle. Seriously, this article has sparked speculatively discussions about the value of curves verses right angles and the whether light fixtures shall always be within OSHA accessible heights. How do they change all those hard to reach lightbulbs, like on the Space Needle? ...

Posted Fri, Feb 4, 11:38 a.m.

- thoughts, well said. contrasts, whether architecture or art, enrich.

Posted Thu, Feb 3, 8:43 a.m.

Sea-to-ski. Makes perfect sense to me. Everyone I know who attended WWU chose it for the regional aspects, not for the view from campus. Skiing/snowboarding at Baker is a big draw for the school. The new logo capitalizes on this. And it looks a lot cooler than the stodgy old ...

Posted Wed, Feb 2, 12:10 p.m.

BAM has other faults, at a detail level, that can be assigned to error by either the local architect of record or Holl's office. Passing off bad detailing as the fault of the contractor is just not acceptable, especially in publicly bid construction projects (which I'm assuming the library was), ...

Posted Wed, Oct 27, 8:50 a.m.

GaryP, you rock! I think Crosscut should give you your own column.

Posted Tue, Oct 26, 1:26 p.m.

Many of these "commment" arguements are terrific. Allow me to make a ridiculous anecdotal arguement as well... Russel Investments moved from Tacoma to Seattle because it was better for their bottom line? Yeah right. These arguments that companies would leave Washington or never start up in Washington, purely because of ...

Posted Mon, Oct 25, 7:46 a.m.

Normfox, you're right on. This article was of no help in sorting the conflicting arguments and complex facts of R-52. Voters need more and better information. Sustainable and healthy schools are important and should be a no-brainer vote, but this article did nothing to help me decide if this is ...

Posted Mon, Oct 18, 12:53 p.m.

Has Crosscut been taken over by the DJC? What a great marketing story for LMN. If LMN hasn't already written their pledge drive check, I certainly hope that they are right now. I know times are tough, but is pandering to local businesses the answer? What of architecture criticism? Comparing ...

Posted Sun, Sep 5, 9:11 a.m.

i love bungalows, used to own one that i restored. and i love backyard cottages. and i love the idea of greater density, for a lot of reasons. but what really gets me are "design guidelines" that include aesthetic requirements. what knute described as "giving the folks next door the ...

Posted Thu, Sep 2, 11:19 a.m.

CaresAlot, you bring up some really good points, let me respond. cost: sure it could be expensive for the design team members to be flying over frequently, but in the scope of the whole project cost, it doesn't even register. i'm with you though, flying that much is expensive and ...

Posted Thu, Sep 2, 7:07 a.m.

field op's is the dark horse, really? i would say that they should be the front runner. diller scofidio might be the "architect" of the highline, but james corner (field op's) was the one driving the project, from the get go. here's my summary: ggn - too cute. their work ...

Posted Thu, Mar 19, 1:47 p.m.

Mr. Cheek, I've listened to you on KUOW in the past and thought you were quite skilled at maintaining a conversation about architecture. But to be honest, I've never been very impressed with your writings of "criticism." When you called the Mosler Lofts by Mithun "the most interesting and provocative ...