List of Famous Seattle Buildings & Structures
1000 Second Avenue
1000 Second Avenue is a 150 m skyscraper in Seattle, Washington. It was completed in 1987 and has 43 floors. Originally known as Key Tower, it is the fifteenth tallest building in Seattle as of 2012.- City/Town: Seattle, King County, Washington, United States of America, Northwestern United States
- Opened: Jan 01 1987
- Structural Height (m): 150.27
- Floors: 43
1111 Third Avenue
1111 Third Avenue is a 454 ft tall skyscraper in Seattle, Washington. It was completed in 1980 and has 34 floors. As of 2012 it is the 20th tallest building in Seattle, and is operated by Talon Portfolio Services, LLC. It has an award-winning outdoor landscaped area with seating and tables accented by bronze statues by sculptor Robert Graham, and floor to ceiling windows. The exterior of the building is composed of precast concrete with exposed aggregate surfaces and dual-glazed, solar bronze glass.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1980
- Structural Height (m): 138.38
- Floors: 34
1201 Third Avenue
1201 Third Avenue, formerly Washington Mutual Tower is a 235.31 m, 55-story skyscraper in downtown Seattle, Washington. It is the second tallest building in the city, and the eighth tallest on the West Coast of the United States. Developed by Wright Runstad & Company, construction began in 1986 and finished in 1988. 1201 Third Avenue was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates and The McKinley Architects. The building was the world headquarters of the financial company Washington Mutual from the building's opening until the company moved into the WaMu Center across the street in 2006.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1988
- Structural Height (m): 235.0
- Floors: 55
1411 Fourth Avenue Building
The 1411 Fourth Avenue Building is a historic building in Seattle, Washington, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 28, 1991. The 15-story plus basement Art Deco structure is located at the Northwest corner of Fourth Avenue and Union Street. The main entrance is located at 1411 Fourth Avenue. The building was built in 1928 for the Stimson Realty Company under the direction of the Metropolitan Building Company for $1,100,000 by Teufel & Carlson, contractors. Robert C. Reamer was the architect. The building was fully constructed within seven months in 1928, setting a record for a building of its size. From 1997 to 2012 the ground floor housed Tully's Coffee flagship store on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Union Street. The store was among those closed following Tully's bankruptcy protection filing.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1928
- Architect: Robert Reamer
- Created By: Robert Reamer
- Style: Art Deco, Streamline Moderne
Active Voice Building
The Active Voice Building in Seattle, Washington is a reinforced concrete and steel-frame office building with solar bronze exterior window panels. It is located on the southwest corner of 6th Avenue and Lenora Street and abuts the Westin Building to the south, providing direct connections to the Westin's meet-me rooms and colocation facilities. Constructed in 1962, originally for the Internal Revenue Service, the building was named United Airlines Building until 2001. It was renamed "Active Voice Building" in 2005 after Active Voice, LLC, a subsidiary of NEC Unified Solutions, Inc., became the anchor tenant, occupying 42,600 square feet of the building on three floors. The ground floor of the Active Voice is home to a jazz club and a day spa. In 1975 and again in 2001, the building underwent renovations.- City/Town: Seattle, King County, Washington, United States of America, Northwestern United States
- Opened: Jan 01 1962
- Structural Height (m): 47.55
- Floors: 11
Arctic Building
The Arctic Building is a nine-story building in Seattle, Washington located at the Northeast corner of Third Avenue and Cherry Street. The building was built for the Arctic Club in 1916 and was occupied by them from construction until the club's dissolution in 1971. It is entirely faced with cream white terra cotta with submarine blue and orange-brown accents. It is particularly noted for the terra cotta walrus-heads lining the third floor of the building. Recently restored, the building has been adapted for use as a luxury hotel, Arctic Club Seattle. It was listed in 1978 on the National Register of Historic Places.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1916
- Style: Beaux-Arts architecture
Aspira
Aspira is a 400 feet tall skyscraper in the Denny Triangle neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. It has 37 floors, and mostly consists of apartments. Construction began in 2007 and was completed in late 2009.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 2009
- Structural Height (m): 121.92
Ballard Carnegie Library
The Ballard Carnegie Library, also known until 1963 as the Seattle Public Library – Ballard Branch, is a historic library in the Ballard neighborhood in Seattle, Washington. The library was predated by a freeholders' library in the 1860s, which eventually gave way to a reading room that was organized and funded by a women's' group in 1901. With a grant for $15,000, among other funds, a new library for the then independent City of Ballard was created as a Carnegie library. The building, located at 2026 N.W. Market Street in downtown Ballard, opened to the public on June 24, 1904. Notable as the first major branch of the Seattle public library system, after Seattle annexed the City of Ballard into itself in 1907, and for employing one of the first African American librarians in Seattle, the Ballard Carnegie Library was in service until 1963, when a newer and more modern facility replaced it. After its sale, the old library building housed a variety of private commercial enterprises, including an antique shop, a restaurant and a kilt manufacturer. After being nominated in 1976 for the recognition by Seattle architect Larry E.- City/Town: Ballard, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1904
Bank of America Fifth Avenue Plaza
800 Fifth Avenue is a 166 m skyscraper in Seattle, Washington. It was constructed from 1979 to 1981 and has 42 floors. It is the 9th tallest building in Seattle and was designed by 3D/International. The building has been able to retain a minimum of 98% occupancy since it was opened. In April 2014, its name was changed to 800 Fifth Avenue. The building was previously known as "Bank of America Fifth Avenue Plaza".- City/Town: USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1981
- Structural Height (m): 165.51
- Floors: 42
Brix
- City/Town: Seattle, King County, Washington, United States of America, Northwestern United States
Camlin Hotel
The Camlin Hotel is a historic hotel in downtown Seattle, Washington. The story of the hotel is intertwined with the story of Seattle. The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1926
- Style: Tudor Revival architecture
Clipper Navigation
Clipper Navigation, Inc. is a privately held company based in Seattle, Washington that provides multiple transportation and vacation packages, many of which are offered under the name Clipper Vacations including hotel and tour packages in Victoria, Seattle, Vancouver, Friday Harbor, Portland, Whistler, British Columbia, the Canadian Rockies and Kelowna. The company operates the popular Victoria Clipper high-speed passenger-only ferry service between downtown Seattle and the Inner Harbour in downtown Victoria, British Columbia. The various Victoria Clipper catamarans typically complete a one-way trip in less than three hours.- City/Town: Seattle, King County, Washington, United States of America, Northwestern United States
Cobb Building
The 11-story Cobb Building was the third structure in Seattle's Metropolitan Tract and the only surviving building in the 10-acre tract. The Howells & Stokes architectural firm designed the building and sent Albert H. Albertson to supervise its 1909-1910 construction. Sculpted Native American ornaments at the 9th and 10th floor cornice are attributed to Victor G. Schneider. An early example of a high-rise medical office center, the Cobb Building later became commercial office space and recently was renovated for apartments.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Architect: Howells & Stokes
- Created By: Howells & Stokes
- Style: Beaux-Arts architecture
Coliseum Theater
The Coliseum Theater, a former cinema in Seattle, Washington, opened January 8, 1916. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and is also an official Seattle city landmark. Designed by B. Marcus Priteca, it was Seattle's first theater built specifically for showing movies, and was one of the first cinemas anywhere to strive for architectural grandeur. When it opened, it was advertised as "the world’s largest and finest photoplay palace." In 1931, the Journal of the Royal Institute of Architects called it "the first of the world's movie palaces." The exterior features elaborate terra cotta work, and the original interior was comparably ornate. When it opened in the silent film era, it boasted a 7-piece orchestra plus an organist; the giant organ was made by Moller, and the musicians—all Russians—were reputed to be the highest-paid movie theater musicians in the country. Anita King attended the opening night to give a speech dedicating the theater. The Coliseum continued as a first-run theater into the late 1970s, and continued to show films until 1990. In 1995, the building was rehabilitated as a Banana Republic clothing store.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1916
- Architect: B. Marcus Priteca
- Created By: B. Marcus Priteca
Columbia Center
Columbia Center is the tallest skyscraper in the downtown Seattle skyline and the tallest building in the State of Washington. At 287.4264 m it is currently the second tallest structure on the West Coast. The tower has the tallest public viewing area on the West Coast and west of the Mississippi. It occupies most of the block bounded by Fourth and Fifth Avenues and Cherry and Columbia Streets. It contains 76 stories of class-A office space above ground and seven stories of various use below ground, making it the building with the most stories west of the Mississippi. Construction of this building began in 1982 and finished in 1985. It was designed by Chester L. Lindsey Architects who also designed the Fourth and Blanchard Building in the Belltown neighborhood, and was built by Howard S. Wright Construction.- City/Town: USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1985
- Structural Height (m): 284.2
- Floors: 76
- Architect: Chester L. Lindsey
- Created By: Chester L. Lindsey
Eagles Auditorium Building
The Eagles Auditorium Building is a seven story historic theatre and apartment building in Seattle, Washington. Located at 1416 Seventh Avenue, at the corner of Seventh and Union Street, the Eagles Auditorium building has been the home to ACT Theatre since 1996. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 1983. The current configuration of the building, under the official name Kreielsheimer Place, has two stages, a cabaret, and 44 residential apartments. The elaborately terracotta-covered building has been known at times in the past as the Eagles Temple and as the Senator Hotel. The building was Aerie No. 1 of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. It was one of several places where Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke November 10, 1961 on his only visit to Seattle. The building also served as the home of the Unity Church of Truth from the mid-1950s until 1960, and was a major rock concert venue from the mid-1960s until 1970. Among other groups, The Grateful Dead performed herer 8 times in 1967 and 1968. Besides its NRHP listing, the building is also an officially designated city landmark, ID #112272.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1925
- Style: Renaissance architecture, Neo-Renaissance
Experience Music Project Museum
EMP Museum is a nonprofit museum, dedicated to contemporary popular culture. EMP Museum was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2000. Since that time EMP has organized dozens of exhibits, 17 of which have toured across the US and internationally. The museum, formerly known as Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, has founded numerous public programs including Sound Off! an annual 21 and under battle-of-the-bands that supports the all-ages scene and Pop Conference an annual gathering of academics, critics, musicians and music buffs. EMP, in collaboration with the Seattle International Film Festival SIFF presents the Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Film Festival, which takes place annually every winter at Seattle Cinerama Theater.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 2000
- Architect: Paul Allen, Frank Gehry
- Created By: Paul Allen, Frank Gehry
- Style: Deconstructivism
Fairmont Olympic Hotel
The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, originally Olympic Hotel, is a historic hotel in downtown Seattle, Washington, occupying the city block between 4th and 5th Avenue and between University and Seneca Streets. It was built in 1924; in 1979, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was one of the original Western Hotels, later Western International and today Westin. It was completely restored in the 1980s, reopening as the Four Seasons Olympic Hotel. It retained that name for two decades, until it was sold and the new owners switched the management contract to Fairmont in 2003. Along with other buildings in the Metropolitan Tract, the hotel and the land under it are owned by the University of Washington as part of the University's original campus. The open space on the north side of the hotel that now constitutes a driveway and formal entrance originally was the site of the Metropolitan Theatre. The Olympic's Presidential Suite hosted many presidents including John F Kennedy in 1961.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1924
- Architect: Charles Bebb, Carl F. Gould
- Created By: Charles Bebb, Carl F. Gould
Federal Office Building
The Federal Office Building, Seattle, Washington is a historic federal office building and courthouse located at Seattle in King County, Washington. It is the courthouse for the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Style: Art Deco
Fifteen Twenty-One Second Avenue
Fifteen Twenty-One Second Avenue is a 134 m skyscraper in Seattle, Washington. Designed by Weber + Thompson, it is a residential building with 38 stories, and 143 individual homes. The building is located near the historic Pike Place Market. Construction was completed in late 2008.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 2008
- Structural Height (m): 134.0
- Floors: 32
Fifth and Columbia Tower
Fifth and Columbia Tower is a 660-foot-tall skyscraper that is under construction in Seattle, Washington. It will consist of 44 floors and be completed in 2016. It was designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca and is being developed by Daniels Real Estate. When the building is completed it will be the fifth tallest building in Seattle, and the tallest building completed since 1990. To achieve LEED Gold standards it will have a system to capture rainwater for reuse, a 35-foot-tall "living wall" where plants grown in Columbia Street facade, and a rooftop solar energy equipment. Plans call for the building to be smallest at its base with each floor a different size. Shoring and excavation began in summer 2008 and was delayed due to economic conditions. Construction re-started in the summer of 2014. The tower is being built next to the former First Methodist Episcopal Church. Although the education wing was demolished to make room for the tower, the remainder of the former church building is being preserved and has since been re-purposed into the Daniels Recital Hall.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Structural Height (m): 201.17
- Floors: 43
Fourth and Blanchard Building
The Fourth and Blanchard Building, also known as the Sedgwick James Building or the Darth Vader building, is a skyscraper located in the Belltown neighborhood just north of downtown Seattle. The high-rise style construction rises to 105 meters and has 25 floors above the ground. Chester L. Lindsey Architects, notable as the architects of the Columbia Center, designed the building. The building holds commercial office space. The building was completed in 1979 and is clad in reflective glass. Its design is reminiscent of Houston's Pennzoil Place. View from the east of the Fourth and Blanchard Building, Seattle, Washington.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1979
- Structural Height (m): 105.0
- Floors: 25
Fourth and Madison Building
The Fourth and Madison Building is a 40-story skyscraper in downtown Seattle, Washington. The building is located at 925 Fourth Avenue, at the intersection with Madison Street. Upon its completion in 2002, the late-modernist highrise was Seattle's first building to exceed 500 ft in over a decade. In 2007, Fourth and Madison was awarded the BOMA International Office Building of the Year Award in the 500,000–1,000,000 sq ft category. The rooftop garden on the seventh floor is a privately owned public open space.- City/Town: USA
- Opened: Jan 01 2002
- Structural Height (m): 156.06
Georgetown Steam Plant
The Georgetown Steam Plant, now the Georgetown PowerPlant Museum, located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, constructed in 1906 for the Seattle Electric Company, provided power for Seattle, notably for streetcars.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1906
- Style: Classical Revival
Globe Building, Beebe Building and Hotel Cecil
The Globe Building, Beebe Building and the Hotel Cecil are a trio of historic office/hotel buildings in downtown Seattle, Washington. The buildings occupy the entire west side of the 1000 block of 1st Avenue between Madison and Spring Streets. All three buildings were constructed from late 1900 to 1901 for Syracuse, New York investors Clifford Beebe and William Nottingham by the Clise Investment Company, headed by the prominent Seattlite James Clise, as a result of the Alaska Gold Rush which resulted in the construction of many such buildings in downtown Seattle. James Clise made other major contributions to the future of Seattle including convincing L.C. Smith to build the Smith Tower, securing land on Magnolia Bluff to build Fort Lawton and playing a major part in the Denny Regrade which reshaped the city. He was also active in securing the site for the University of Washington campus as well as the Lake Washington Ship Canal. All three buildings were designed in Italian Renaissance Style for Clise by Max Umbrecht, a mostly residential architect who came to Seattle around 1900 from Syracuse, New York where he had worked briefly in the firm of Jeffery & Umbrecht.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
Grand Pacific Hotel
The Grand Pacific Hotel is a historic building in Seattle located at 1115-1117 1st Avenue between Spring and Seneca Streets in the city's central business district. The building was constructed in 1890 during the building boom that followed the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. The building had served as a hotel since its construction, with the Ye Kenilworth Inn, operated by Minnie Hayward, on the upper floors in 1893. The hotel was refurnished and reopened in 1902 as the Grand Pacific Hotel, most likely named after the hotel of the same name in Chicago. It played a role during the Yukon Gold Rush as one of many hotels that served traveling miners and also housed the offices for the Seattle Woollen Mill, an important outfitter for the Klondike. The Grand Pacific Hotel is a substantial four-story brick and stone building designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style and remains a rare example of its kind outside of the Pioneer Square district. The building's original architect is not known. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 around the same time as the adjacent Colonial Hotel.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Style: Romanesque architecture
Henry M. Jackson Federal Building
The Henry M. Jackson Federal Building is a 37-story United States Federal Government skyscraper in downtown Seattle, Washington. Located on the block bounded by Marion and Madison Streets and First and Second Avenues, the building was completed in 1974 and won the Honor Award of the American Institute of Architects in 1976. It received its current name after the death of U.S. Senator Henry M. Jackson in 1983. Architects for the project were Bassetti/Norton/Metler/Rekevics and John Graham & Associates. Among the structures torn down to build the federal building were the Richardsonian Romanesque Burke Building, the Hotel Stevens, and the Tivoli Theater, a burlesque house. It is located across from the Old Federal Building.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1974
- Structural Height (m): 148.0
- Floors: 37
Hoge Building
The Hoge Building is a 17-story building constructed in 1911 by, and named for John D. Hoge, an attorney and real estate investor, on the northwest corner of Second Avenue and Cherry Street in Seattle, Washington. The building was constructed primarily of tan brick and terra cotta built over a steel frame in the architectural style of Second Renaissance Revival with elements of Beaux Arts. During its construction, it was briefly the tallest structure in the state of Washington, until the completion of Tacoma's Key Bank Center later in 1911, and the tallest in Seattle until 1914 with the completion of Smith Tower.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1911
- Style: Beaux-Arts architecture
Holyoke Building
The Holyoke Building is a historic building located in downtown Seattle, Washington. It is a substantial five story brick structure with stone trimmings. Construction began at the corner of First Avenue and Spring Streets just before the Great Seattle fire of 1889. Completed in early 1890, it was the first permanent building completed and ready for occupancy in downtown Seattle following the fire. Today the Holyoke Building is one of the very few such buildings still standing in Seattle outside of the Pioneer Square district and is a historic remnant of the northward expansion of Seattle's business district between the time of the great fire and the Yukon Gold Rush in 1897. The Holyoke Building housed many social and artistic clubs and organizations throughout its history. As early as 1895 it housed the Conservatory of Arts on the top floor. Later in the 1920s the Seattle Musical Club brought many local artists and musicians together in the building and other private and social clubs shared the building with toiletry manufactures and offices.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
King Street Station
King Street Station is a train station in Seattle, Washington, United States. Located between South King and South Jackson streets and Second and Fourth Avenues South in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, the station is just south of downtown. Built between 1904 and 1906, it served the Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railway from its grand opening on May 10, 1906, until the creation of Amtrak on May 1, 1971. The station was designed by the St. Paul, Minnesota architectural firm of Charles A. Reed and Allen H. Stem, who were later associate designers for the New York Central Railroad's Grand Central Terminal in New York City. King Street Station was Seattle's primary train terminal until the construction of the adjacent Oregon & Washington Depot, later named Union Station, in 1911. King Street Station was added to the National Register of Historic Places and the Washington Heritage Register in 1973. Since the early 1990s the station was in various states of repair to undo remodels done during the middle of the Twentieth Century to "modernize" the facility, including the restoration of the elegant main waiting room.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: May 10 1906
- Structural Height (m): 74.0
- Architect: Allen H. Stem, Charles A. Reed
- Created By: Allen H. Stem, Charles A. Reed
- Style: Italianate architecture, Beaux-Arts architecture
Moore Theatre
The Moore Theatre in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. is a 1,419-seat performing arts venue located at the corner of 2nd Avenue and Virginia Street, two blocks from Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle. It is the oldest still-active theater in Seattle. The Moore hosts a mix of theatrical productions, musical concerts of many varieties, and lectures. It is currently operated by the Seattle Theatre Group, which also runs the 2,803-seat Paramount Theatre and the Neptune Theater.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Dec 01 1907
- Architect: E.W. Houghton
- Created By: E.W. Houghton
National Building
The National Building is a historic warehouse building in downtown Seattle, Washington, located on the east side of Western Avenue between Spring and Madison Streets in what was historically Seattle's commission district. It is now home to the Seattle Weekly. It is a six story plus basement brick building that covers the entire half-block. The dark red brick facade is simply decorated with piers capped with small Ionic capitals and a small cornice, which is a reproduction of the original cornice. Kingsley & Anderson of Seattle were the architects. The National Building was constructed from late 1904 to mid 1905 by the Northern Pacific Railway as part of the road's multi-million dollar plan to improve their many Seattle properties and capitalize on the city's booming commission trade. One of the building's first tenants was the National Grocery Company which at first only occupied two of the building's eight stores and would later occupy the entire building, becoming its namesake. It would occupy the building until 1930. The building was later home to many small manufacturing and distributing firms and has been an office building since the late 1960s.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
Naval Military Hangar-University Shell House
- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
NBBJ Group HQ
Conversion of 5 storey warehouse into NBBJ architect's offices featured in Architectural Record (US Version) May 1984- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1983
- Architect: Stuart Charles
- Created By: Stuart Charles
Nihon Go Gakko
- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
Nippon Kan Theatre
The Nippon Kan Theatre is a former Japanese theater in Seattle, Washington, USA. Built in 1909 as a hotel, it was boarded up in 1942 during the Japanese American internment, but reopened in 1981 through the restorative efforts of Seattle architect Edward M. Burke and his wife Betty. It is located in the Kobe Park Building at 628 S. Washington Street, in the former Japantown section of Seattle's International District. In 2005 it was sold to ABC Legal Services and was used as converted office space. A replica of the curtain hangs on the wall along with several historic photographs. Its original closure has been attributed to the decreasing number of people of Japanese descent in Seattle. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The theater's original stage curtain survives, and now serves a similar purpose on the stage of the Tateuchi Story Theater of the nearby Wing Luke Museum. The curtain covered with advertisements was rediscovered in the 1970s. Because it used an asbestos material, it is now encased in a resin.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1909
Olive 8
Hyatt at Olive 8 is a 39-storey, 140 m, mixed-use skyscraper featuring 229 residential condominium units above the Hyatt Hotel at Eighth Avenue and Olive Streets in downtown Seattle in Washington state. The hotel opened January 5, 2009 and the first homeowners were scheduled to close on their homes in what is the largest residential building in the city in late February 2009. The tower has one of the largest green roofs in downtown Seattle, 8,355 sq ft, and was developed by R.C. Hedreen and designed by Gluckman Mayner Architects, the architects for The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. JTM Construction of Seattle managed the construction of the building. The complex was designed in an effort to reach LEED Silver Certification with its energy-efficient glass facade, low-flow plumbing fixtures, dual-flush toilets, rooftop garden between the towers, and efficient condensing boiler.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 05 2009
- Structural Height (m): 140.0
- Floors: 39
- Created By: Gluckman Mayner Architects
- Style: Modern architecture
Panama Hotel
The Panama Hotel in Seattle, Washington's International District was built in 1910. The hotel was built by the first Japanese-American architect in Seattle, Sabro Ozasa, and contains the last remaining Japanese bathhouse in the United States. Since 1985 the Panama Hotel has been owned by Jan Johnson. It is also known as being the namesake of the novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. It was declared a National Historic Landmark building in 2006.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1910
- Architect: Sabro Ozasa
- Created By: Sabro Ozasa
Paramount Theatre
The Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Washington is a 2,807-seat performing arts venue at 9th Avenue and Pine Street in Downtown Seattle in the United States of America. The theater originally opened March 1, 1928 as the Seattle Theatre with 3,000 seats, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 9, 1974. It is also an official City of Seattle landmark. It is currently owned and operated by the Seattle Theatre Group, a 501 not-for-profit performing arts organization, which also runs the 1,419-seat Moore Theatre in Belltown and the Neptune Theater in the University District. The Paramount was built expressly for showing film and secondarily, vaudeville. As of 2009, the Paramount is currently operated as a performing arts venue, serving a diverse patron base that attends Broadway theatre, concerts, dance, comedy, family engagements, silent film and jazz. It is considered to be one of the busiest theatres in the region.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Mar 01 1928
- Architect: B. Marcus Priteca
- Created By: B. Marcus Priteca
- Style: Beaux-Arts architecture
Pierre P. Ferry House
The Pierre P. Ferry House is an historic home in Seattle, Washington.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Style: American Craftsman
Queen Anne High School
Queen Anne High School was a Seattle Public Schools high school on Galer Street atop Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, Washington, United States. The building was converted to condominium apartments in 2007. The school was built in 1908 with additions in 1929 and 1955, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is also an official City of Seattle landmark. QAHS closed in 1981 due to decreasing enrollment. Students in the school's attendance area transferred to various high schools in the district. The school facility underwent renovation to become a residential apartment building in 1986, with 137 apartments. In 2006 the residential apartments underwent renovation and conversion to condominium units.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Architect: Floyd Naramore
- Created By: Floyd Naramore
- Style: Classical Revival
Qwest Plaza
Qwest Plaza is a 32-storey, 152 m skyscraper in Seattle, Washington, completed in 1976 and designed by John Graham & Company. As of 2012 it is the 14th tallest building in the city. Qwest Plaza was originally known as the Pacific Northwest Bell Building, and later 1600 Bell Plaza, and US West Communications. In April 2012, a year after acquiring Qwest Communications, Centurylink sold the Bell Plaza/Qwest Plaza property to New York real estate investment firm Clarion Partners for $137 million and is now leasing floors 3–15 to Centurylink and floors 16–32 to Nordstrom. Centurylinks NW Regional President, Brian Stading issued a statement claiming that the tower was not a fundamental component of their business strategy. Seattle real estate company, The Urban Renaissance Group, represented Clarion in the sale and will operate the building for the new owner.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1976
- Structural Height (m): 151.79
- Floors: 33
Puget Sound Plaza
Puget Sound Plaza is a 21-story skyscraper in the Metropolitan Tract of Seattle, Washington. The building is located on 1325 Fourth Avenue. It contains a parking garage with 334 parking stalls. The building has 271,000 rentable square feet. The lower two stories were remodeled in 1988.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1960
- Structural Height (m): 88.0
- Floors: 21
R. D. Merrill House
- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Architect: Charles A. Platt
- Created By: Charles A. Platt
- Style: Colonial Revival architecture
Rainier Club
The Rainier Club is a private club in Seattle, Washington; it has been referred to as "Seattle's preeminent private club." Its clubhouse building, completed in 1904, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was founded in 1888 in what was then the Washington Territory. As of 2008, the club has 1,300 members.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Style: Tudor Revival architecture
Rainier Tower
Rainier Tower is a 31-story, 156.67 m skyscraper in the Metropolitan Tract of Seattle, Washington, at 1301 Fifth Avenue. It was designed by Minoru Yamasaki, who designed the World Trade Center in New York City as well as the IBM Building, which is on the corner across the street from Rainier Tower to the southeast. Its construction was completed in 1977. The skyscraper has an unusual appearance, being built atop an 11-storey, 37 m concrete pedestal base that tapers towards ground level, like an inverted pyramid. Beneath the tower is Rainier Square, an underground shopping mall connecting with One Union Square that is owned by the University of Washington. Both the mall and tower were originally named after Rainier Bank, which was merged in the 1980s into Security Pacific, which was eventually merged into BankAmerica. Locals often refer to it as the "Beaver Building" as its physical appearance looks like a tree being felled by a beaver. It has also been referred to as the "golf tee" building.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1977
- Structural Height (m): 193.55
- Architect: Minoru Yamasaki
- Created By: Minoru Yamasaki
Raymond-Ogden Mansion
- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Style: Colonial Revival architecture
Richard A. Ballinger House
- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Style: Colonial Revival architecture
Samuel Hill House
- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Style: Classical Revival
Samuel Hyde House
Samuel Hyde House is a building at 3726 East Madison Street in Seattle, Washington, United States listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The building, built in 1909–1910 for liquor magnate Samuel Hyde, now houses the residence of the Russia consul-general. The two-story brick house is fronted by a portico with Corinthian columns; there is a brick carriage house in back. It is believed that the grounds were laid out by the Olmsted Brothers. The Olmsteds played a prominent role in designing Seattle's system of parks and boulevards, and were responsible for landscaping the grounds of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition on the campus of the University of Washington.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Style: Classical Revival
Seattle Central Library
The Seattle Public Library's Central Library is the flagship library of The Seattle Public Library system. The 11-story glass and steel building in downtown Seattle, Washington was opened to the public on Sunday, May 23, 2004. Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus of OMA/LMN were the principal architects, Magnusson Klemencic Associates was the structural engineer with Arup; Arup also provided mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering, as well as, fire/life safety, security, IT and communications, and audio visual consulting; and Hoffman Construction Company of Portland, Oregon, was the general contractor. The 362,987 square foot public library can hold about 1.45 million books and other materials, features underground public parking for 143 vehicles, and includes over 400 computers open to the public. Over 2 million individuals visited the new library in its first year. It is the third Seattle Central Library building to be located on the same site at 1000 Fourth Avenue, the block bounded by Fourth and Fifth Avenues and Madison and Spring Streets.- City/Town: USA
- Opened: May 23 2004
- Architect: Joshua Prince-Ramus, Rem Koolhaas
- Created By: Joshua Prince-Ramus, Rem Koolhaas
Seattle Civic Square
The Seattle Civic Square is a proposed 520-foot tall, 43-story skyscraper in Seattle, Washington, that was approved by the city in 2009. The building will include space for retail, offices, and residences. The development will also include a 30,000 square feet public plaza. The site has been vacant since the previous structure, the Public Safety Building, was demolished in 2005. As of November 2012, the Civic Square project is on hold as the developers search for financing or a tenant.- City/Town: Seattle, King County, Washington, United States of America, Northwestern United States
- Structural Height (m): 158.5
- Floors: 40
Seattle Municipal Tower
Seattle Municipal Tower is a 62-story, 220.07 m skyscraper at 700 5th Avenue at the corner of 5th Avenue and Columbia Street in downtown Seattle, Washington. It is the fourth tallest building in Seattle. At its completion in 1990, the building was named AT&T Gateway Tower and later changed to Key Bank Tower reflecting the names of former anchor tenants AT&T and Key Bank. The City of Seattle purchased Key Tower in early 1996 to house utilities and general government functions. The purchase price was $124 million, or $124 a square foot. The City purchased the property during a downturn in the economy, citing recommendations from two panels: the citizens' group, Capital Finance Review Board, concluded that purchasing the building would cost a minimum of $47 million less than constructing new facilities new construction and a minimum of $121 million less than renovating existing city facility; and the Citizens Advisory Panel concluded that the building " the great majority of the city's space needs." On 17 May 2004, the tower's name was officially changed to the current moniker.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1990
- Structural Height (m): 220.07
- Floors: 62
Seattle Public Library
The Seattle Public Library is the public library system serving Seattle, Washington, USA. It was officially established by the city in 1890, though there had been efforts to start a Seattle library as early as 1868. There are 26 branches in the system, most of them named after the neighborhoods in which they are located. Also included are Mobile Services and the Central Library. The Seattle Public Library also founded, and until July 2008 administered, the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library. All but one of Seattle's early purpose-built libraries were Carnegie libraries. Although the central Carnegie library has now twice been replaced, all the early 20th century purpose-built branches survive, although some have been subject to significant alterations. Ballard's former Carnegie library has held a number of restaurants, antique stores, etc., but the others have been modernized, and remain in use as libraries.- City/Town: Seattle
- Architect: Rem Koolhaas
- Created By: Rem Koolhaas
Seattle Tower
The Seattle Tower, originally known as the Northern Life Tower, is a 27-story skyscraper in downtown Seattle, Washington. The building is located on 1218 Third Avenue and is known as Seattle's first art-deco tower. Its distinctive, ziggurat exterior is clad in 33 shades of brick designed to effect a gradient which lightens from the bottom to the top of the building. This is said to have been inspired by local rock formations. According to the US National Park Service website: The Northern Life Insurance Company was founded in Seattle by D. B. and T. M. Morgan, with assets of $170,232 and a 12 by 12 foot office in the Colman Building. As the firm prospered, it was moved to larger offices where it remained until, after the death of T. M. Morgan in 1919. D. B. Morgan then decided to construct his own building "finer than anything on the Pacific Coast." The plan to construct the building at a cost of $1.5 million was announced in April 1927.- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1929
- Structural Height (m): 105.7
- Floors: 27
- Style: Art Deco
Showboat Theatre
- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
Skinner Building
- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
Smith Tower
Smith Tower is a skyscraper in Pioneer Square in Seattle, Washington. Completed in 1914, the 38-story, 149 m tower is the oldest skyscraper in the city and was the tallest office building west of the Mississippi River until the Kansas City Power & Light Building was built in 1931. It remained the tallest building on the West Coast until the Space Needle overtook it in 1962. Smith Tower is named after its builder, firearm and typewriter magnate Lyman Cornelius Smith, and is a designated Seattle landmark.- City/Town: USA
- Opened: Jan 01 1914
- Structural Height (m): 141.0
- Floors: 38
- The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, a landmark of the Pacific Northwest, and an icon of Seattle. It was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair, which drew over 2.3 million visitors, when nearly 20,000 people a day used its elevators. Once the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River, it is 605 ft high, 138 ft wide, and weighs 9,550 tons. It is built to withstand winds of up to 200 miles per hour and earthquakes of up to 9.1 magnitude, as strong as the 1700 Cascadia earthquake. It also has 25 lightning rods. It has an observation deck at 520 ft and a gift shop with the rotating SkyCity restaurant at 500 ft. The downtown Seattle skyline, as well as the Olympic and Cascade Mountains, Mount Rainier, Mount Baker, Elliott Bay and surrounding islands can be viewed from the top of the Needle. Photographs of the Seattle skyline often show the Space Needle prominently, above skyscrapers and Mount Rainier. Visitors can reach the top of the Space Needle by elevators that travel at 10 miles per hour. The trip takes 41 seconds. On windy days, the elevators slow to 5 miles per hour.
- City/Town: Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Opened: Apr 21 1962
- Structural Height (m): 158.12
- Floors: 6
- Architect: John Graham Jr., Victor Steinbrueck, Edward Carlson
- Created By: John Graham Jr., Victor Steinbrueck, Edward Carlson
- Style: Futurist architecture
Stimson-Green House
- City/Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
