May 14, 2008

AIA Project of the Month: Live Aboves: A wise, modest project meets its lofty goals

Photo by Arellano/Christofides Architects [enlarge]

At the street level, large doors with sheltering overhangs send a distinctly commercial message. In the rear, garage doors open out to usable open space.

Columbia City Live Aboves call out to those searching for the perfect loft. But there’s something very wise and modest about the project, tucked onto a back street in a rapidly redeveloping South Seattle neighborhood.

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Previous columns:

• AIA Project of the Month: Flexibility, durability and a place kids call their own, 04-09-2008
• AIA Project of the Month: The winery gets reinvented in Woodinville, 03-12-2008
• AIA Project of the Month: A shell and more that 'parties fantastically', 02-13-2008
• AIA Project of the Month: Agnes Lofts: it's the windows, 01-16-2008
• AIA Project of the Month: Alley 24: A lab for redevelopment, 12-12-2007
• AIA Project of the Month: Bringing science and sea together, in the woods, 11-14-2007
• AIA Project of the Month: SSCC center: a zipper to bring campus together, 10-10-2007
• AIA Project of the Month: Marysville restroom makes a simple statement: ‘Wow', 09-12-2007