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Hey Jen, the top of the WaMu tower should be credited to (or debited from) NBBJ. Allied Works is responsible for the SAM tower alone.

Almost nothing is as satisfying as the feeling of loving a new building. I'm so accostomed to the opposite. God bless you, WAMU tower.

Eric -- you sure? Thanks for writing.

Also, duh, Tyler Green reminded me -- the De Young is by Herzog and de Meuron; I'll fix.

Esthetic judgements by politicians, and you're cheering? I don't get it. You had it right with clueless. Concrete can be great in the right hands, brutal in the wrong ones. Daley is an idiot.

eric is correct. nbbj.

You take a Capitol Hill view of this tower. From a distance it looks nice at the top. But have you been down on First Avenue lately? The new building has a brutal metal cladding reminiscent of the downtown post office. Truly horrific...I can only think it was designed to make the car wreck that is SAM's current building look better.

Just confirmed it all with SAM -- my apologies, and thanks again, Eric and The One Who Knows. I had no idea the office tower wasn't also by Allied Works. What a strange (non-?) distinction. I'll be looking at the relationship between the two with fresh eyes. Naturally, WaMu workers will be inside the Cloepfil tower until the museum does its final planned expansion in a few years.