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February 26th, 2014 - 4:14 am § in The Ave Scene

The Seattle Way of Preservng a Neighborhood

  Among the ugliest of new Seattle’s buildings is the structure next to the Ballad Bridge. Imbedded within this concrete blob is a tiny house that once belonged to Edith Macefield. Then in her 80’s, she refused to sell her little house on N. 48th St., despite being offered $1 million by[...]

March 12th, 2012 - 6:24 am § in The Ave Scene

Seattle Public Library Grows Huge in Beijing

Yet for all that, the CCTV headquarters may be the greatest work of architecture built in this century. Mr. Koolhaas has always been interested in making buildings that expose the conflicting energies at work in society, and the CCTV building is the ultimate expression of that aim, beginning with th[...]