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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Boom City Board Will See "Bauhaus Block" Plans Tonight

Posted by on Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:42 AM

Here's the newly released construction proposal for the Bauhaus Block that would wrap a seven-story, 160-unit apartment building around the old Timken Building and Melrose Building. This is an important, controversial project that tests the city's ability to increase density while retaining the character structures that define Capitol Hill. (We've written about the project here and more recently here).

You can look at Hewitt architects' designs in this fat design packet, and here are a couple images of their preferred design:

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  • HEWITT

melrose_and_pine.jpg
  • HEWITT

Madison Development group will present this and other designs to the city's Design Review Board tonight.

If you care about getting this awesome block's development correct—integrating new construction with an active strip of retail, all while setting good precedent for a slew of new buildings slated for construction in Pike/Pine—you should go to the meeting. It's at 8:00 p.m. in Seattle University's Casey Building, room 500E (901 12th Ave), and you can make comments.

 

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What will happen when the giant baby shows up and knocks those blocks all down?
Posted by Gerald Fnord on July 18, 2012 at 7:33 AM
Max Solomon 2
anything but proposal B - NO DIAGONALS.
Posted by Max Solomon on July 18, 2012 at 7:38 AM
Cato the Younger Younger 3
So it's going to look like a variation on all the other crap they have built on Capitol Hill in the past decade?
Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on July 18, 2012 at 7:50 AM
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Will in Seattle 5
@4 for the Building Blocks Buildings Are Spam And So Am I win.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on July 18, 2012 at 10:05 AM
south downtown 6
bwha ha ha ha. now you're fucked, capitol hill!
Posted by south downtown on July 18, 2012 at 10:53 AM

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