Parkside community takes root. Nestled against the edge of Marymoor, King County’s most popular park, Piper introduces residential apartments to an area traditionally home to warehouses and converted retail spaces. Two distinct buildings – each designed with its own architectural approach and unique materials – respond to the City of Redmond’s vision to create a vibrant community that will in turn become the catalyst for further residential growth nearby.
An Uptown building with World’s Fair flair. Siteline, a development blending residential, office, and retail under one roof, sits at the confluence of Lower Queen Anne, Denny Triangle, and South Lake Union. This mixed-use Uptown community draws inspiration from neighboring Seattle Center—the civic hub originally developed for the 1962 World’s Fair—by weaving in history, context, and arts into the design.
Timeless elegance on First Hill. Nestled between First Hill’s quiet residential streets and Capitol Hill’s energetic Pike-Pine corridor, The Victor joins a neighborhood of eclectic new residential towers and classic low-rise mixed-use buildings. However, the site’s immediate architectural context is a tree-lined avenue of stately brick apartments and Seattle’s First Baptist Church, an ornate chapel built in 1910 that has since been designated as a city landmark. Our goal was to design a timeless, high-quality structure that blends seamlessly with its surrounding area.
We aim for a flexible and responsive process, and we avoid any prescribed aesthetic outcomes. Sensitivity to each project’s context and goals is what makes our projects successful – for our client-partners, for the community, and for us internally. We structure our project teams to support this by keeping them small and cooperative, assuring that our teams are nimble, stay on the same page, and propagate positive relationships with our client-partners. We believe that the integrity of this social fabric is relevant to the quality of our work.
We’re employee-owned, with over half of our staff owning a stake in the firm. All of our shareholders are licensed in-house architects; we want the decision-making in our business to be rooted in on-the-ground thinking. This un-siloed approach to individual ownership results in stronger client relationships, better documentation, and a firm-wide ethos of long-term thinking.
