The proposed apartment building at 3031 Western Ave. by Martin Selig is continuing with their permits to develop. Along with some concern over lost views from those at the Alexandria across the street, the project has also been somewhat topical based on information reported at Seattle Condos and Lofts back in July.
Land Use Application to allow an 8 story (at Western Avenue) residential building in an environmentally critical area. Structure will contain 64 units, including three townhouse units that will be accessed from Elliott Avenue and two levels of parking for 46 vehicles to be accessed from Western Avenue. Project will include 4,000 cu. yds. of grading and demolition of the existing two story structure on site.
Currently, the Martin Selig websites describes the property as:
The formerly barren site of the Olympic Sculpture Park has been recently transformed into a significant landscape organized around public art. This bold intervention by the Seattle Art Museum has awakened the slumbering site to the north and created an opportunity to frame the open space with a contemporary building edge. Luxury apartments are planned to take advantage of the unique mix of southern exposure, frontage on the Sculpture Park, and views to Elliott Bay and Seattle’s skyline beyond.
A major design goal is to create a built edge that responds to and enhances the public experience of the Sculpture Park while maintaining a sense of privacy within the dwellings. While the project is in an early programming and conceptual stage, the vision calls for layers of glass “veils” with various degrees of translucency and transparency to create an ephemeral and ever-changing canvas for light and shadow as viewed from the park. Balconies of each unit will feature floor-to-ceiling glass, blurring the boundaries between interior and exterior spaces while providing further solar shading and privacy. Various strategies are proposed to maximize the building’s energy efficiency, including solar shading provided by the glass layers, a significant green roof, and redevelopment of a former public right of way into a pervious hard surface and green space.
Ben displays a much cooler rendering of the office building on his post (same as above).
