What a great way to start the New Year! One of our projects was featured in Seattle Magazine! Thanks Eggleston Farkas Architects & Lzl Constructionfor all your hard work on the Piacitelli House. Well done!
Read the whole article HERE.
Bedrooms & More’s new flagship store is located in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle at the corner of 4th Ave NE and NE 45th street. The new five level, 24,000 square foot store has a grand entry that opens up to four stories of retail space where customers can enjoy spectacular views of Seattle while shopping for environmentally friendly mattresses and bedding accessories. The basement level provides added showroom and storage space while the fifth level houses a private offices and community spaces. The roof supports two gardens, a large PV array and mechanical equipment for the VRF cooling system. The structural system for the retail levels is composed of tongue and groove decking over a grid of glulam beams and girders that are supported by glulam columns and wood stud walls. The floor for the private living space above is conventionally framed with plywood sheathing over wood I-joists. Structural steel elements were used at isolated locations as needed. The main floor is framed with a reinforced concrete slab supported by concrete columns and perimeter concrete basement walls and the lateral system is composed of plywood sheathed walls and concrete shear walls.
Architect: Stuart Silk Architects
Quantum Consulting Engineers provided structural engineering for the 50,726 square-foot Abbey Lincoln Court Apartments. The 68-unit building was developed by the Low Income Housing Institute, targeting workers making up to 60% of the area’s median income. Located in Seattle’s Central District, the six-story building include studios, apartments with up to three bedrooms, and townhouses. It shares a common courtyard with the adjacent Ernestine Anderson Place. It was built to meet the Washington State Evergreen Sustainable Development Standard. Energy efficient features include water-conserving fixtures and an enhanced building envelope design. It was named in honor of Abbey Lincoln, an American jazz vocalist, songwriter, actress and civil rights activist.
Seattle University’s new bookstore is prominently located at the northeast corner of campus at 12th and Madison. The store occupies ground floor of a five-story, 82,000 square foot, reinforced concrete storage building that was originally built for the Bekins Storage company in 1910. The structural retrofit of the storage building involved removing a concrete mezzanine to create a high retail space, framing a new opening in the ground floor to provide a new entry and then seismically retrofitting the building to current code standards. The seismic retrofit of the building was done using shotcrete shear walls at select opaque perimeter walls, removing or bracing unreinforced masonry partition walls and installing buckling restrained braces (BRB’s) at open window bays. The BRB’s were used in part to keep the brace and end connection sizes to a minimum to reduce their impact to the windows. The construction took less than a year to complete, all while the building was still occupied by the storage tenant.
Quantum Consulting Engineers provided the structural design of a one-story, 7,500 square foot transportation hub for both train and bus in Mount Vernon, Washington. Dramatically shaped roofs and shelters are reminiscent of historic train stations, and at the same time provide a strong modern Northwest connection to the outdoors. The structure blends exposed steel and wood elements throughout the interior and additional framing includes steel-braced frames, steel columns, and perimeter beams.
This project received the AIA Project of the Month Award.
Architect: Arai Jackson Ellison Murakami