The 787: Not the plane of the future
Posted Mon, Nov 16, 6 a.m.
Boeing's new Dreamliner reflects the tiny gains that can still be extracted from the old technology arc, and the conservatism of airliner design.
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Posted Mon, Nov 16, 6 a.m.
Boeing's new Dreamliner reflects the tiny gains that can still be extracted from the old technology arc, and the conservatism of airliner design.
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Posted Thu, Nov 5, 8:39 p.m.
The tight budget creates some disappointments at the new Whatcom Museum, but Jim Olson's bold curved glass wall is an inspired "lightcatcher."
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Posted Mon, Oct 12, 6 a.m.
September's demolition of state landmarks leaves Washington preservationists reeling.
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The elaborately designed new Bravern complex is a pastiche of ideas drawn from European public spaces. As architecture, it's all very tasteful, but it lacks whimsy, unpredictability, and Northwest context.
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Posted Sun, Oct 4, 7:10 p.m.
The University of Washington's Nuclear Reactor Building has won a place on the National Historic Register, a key step in saving this wonderfully designed structure from demolition.
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Posted Fri, Oct 2, 6 a.m.
The patron saint of livable, walkable cities is being invoked on both sides of the debate over Seattle's Viaduct solution. Would Jacobs be a tunnel supporter, or a surface option fan?
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Posted Mon, Sep 21, 6 a.m.
Backyard cottage housing is a benefit, not a threat, to single family neighborhoods, and in keeping with the values that shaped Seattle. Let's have more.
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Posted Sun, Sep 20, 5:36 p.m.
An expert on cities distills the Portland DNA. Most of all, it's a city that is comfortable with being an urban place.
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Posted Tue, Sep 15, 6 a.m.
The Future Shack awards suggest some design principles that could help us shape the city and region for the better.
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Posted Wed, Sep 9, 9:24 p.m.
An art exhibit in Port Angeles displays creative responses to the Cascadia dream.
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Posted Wed, Sep 9, 6 a.m.
There are plenty of land-use controversies to heat up the election. But some cities are jumping beyond these block-by-block skirmishes and proposing sweeping new forms of zoning and urban design. Our turn?
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Posted Fri, Aug 28, 6 a.m.
The state directs such small accessory units, to increase housing in cities. But cities get to regulate the local conditions. The fight in Seattle is joined in a few weeks.
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Posted Wed, Aug 26, 6 a.m.
A look at Seattle's densest and most intensely developed neighborhoods, the least dense, and Pugetopolis' fastest growing towns.
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Posted Tue, Aug 11, 6 a.m.
The common claim that the city's population will double by 2040 is bogus. Historic factors and our own failures at building to a broad market are the main reasons.
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Posted Tue, Jul 28, 6 a.m.
You can go for a gorgeous ramble along the St. Charles River in Quebec City and get lost in thoughts of how Seattle might pull off something similar.
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Posted Mon, Jul 27, 6 a.m.
The City wants to allow them all over town, in effect creating duplex zoning. The City has a long way to go to earn enough confidence in the neighborhoods for this experiment.
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Posted Mon, Jul 20, 6 a.m.
Seattle has acquired light rail and a strongman mayor, but that doesn't put us in the big leagues. In fact, we were more mature a few decades ago. And Seattle's civic DNA is about not imitating other cities.
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Posted Fri, Jul 17, 6 a.m.
An architect counts the ways, environmental, economic, and architectural, for avoiding the wrecking ball now aimed at Building 18.
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Posted Tue, Jul 14, 6 a.m.
Two panels wrestle with the future of Washington's residential architecture, and especially the fabric of a growing Seattle. An overriding question: How much can good design solve the problems of density?
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Posted Tue, Jul 7, 6 a.m.
The loss of an historic church in Tacoma and the saving of several in Seattle offer lessons about the particular problems, and opportunities, of saving urban religious sanctuaries.
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The nearly 100-year-old "city beautiful" plan for the city, never adopted, still holds a worthy reminder.
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With a new fundraising campaign kicking off tonight, the history museum hopes to be in its new Lake Union digs in 2012.
MOREPosted Thu, Nov 5, 2:24 p.m.
Memo to Mayor Newbie: Don't concentrate on monuments, but instead see that a dozen or so small public buildings are joys to behold and glories of the neighborhoods.
MOREPosted Thu, Sep 24, 5:32 p.m.
You can't just block off vehicles and expect a public space. Here are some do's (Boulder, San Antonio) and don't's (Eugene).
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The re-imagining of Skyway Park, in a multicultural part of south Seattle.
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A Vancouver, BC architect will represent the USA at the Shanghai expo.
MOREPosted Tue, Jun 30, 6 a.m.
More thoughts from the Seattle and Vancouver urban debaters on what makes their cities livable, or not.
MOREPosted Tue, Jun 23, 8:57 a.m.
And what it tells us about local design problems
MOREPosted Mon, Jun 15, 6:31 a.m.
Central District landmark that hosted Billie Holiday, Jimi Hendrix, and Martin Luther King will find new life as an updated performance hall.
MOREPosted Wed, May 13, 6 a.m.
It's a soulful neighborhood, but its extreme diversity and building restrictions make it a little tougher to weather a downturn
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