Top 25 of 2000 -- Seattle DJC.COM

#1. Justice Center(Seattle)

Project cost: $92 million

The new Justice Center in Seattle is part of a Civic Center campus that includes a new City Hall.
(Rendering courtesy of NBBJ)

Project address:
East side of Fifth Avenue, between James and Cherry streets, Seattle

Start of construction:
July 19, 2000

Expected completion date:
Fall 2002

Owner:
City of Seattle

GC/CM contractor:
Hoffman Construction,
1200 Westlake Ave. N., Suite 200,
Seattle, WA 98109,
(206) 286-6697

Architect:
NBBJ,
111 S. Jackson, Seattle, WA 98104,
(206) 223-5555

Description The Justice Center will replace the 50-year-old Public Safety Building, which is nearing the end of its useful life. It will house the city’s municipal courthouse and police headquarters, and will be located in a key position in Seattle’s new Civic Center campus, which includes a new City Hall building that will get under way later this year. The building has been designed with two distinctly different sections to separate the courts and police programs. The combination of programs within one building yields a structure with two different parts: a primarily glass courts and public portion that occupies the southern part of the block and a primarily masonry and office police portion on the northern part. Aligning with the future City Hall across Fifth Avenue, larger public gathering spaces are located along the southern edge of the site, while office spaces are located on the north. The courts portion of the building will be set back 34 feet east of the property line along Fifth Avenue to create a plaza, steps and landscaping to reflect the public nature of the courts function of the building, inviting people inside. The courts entry is located off the plaza, highlighted by flags, steps and a water feature fronting Fifth Avenue. In addition to these features, the public space is targeted for a significant integrated work of public art. The police entry, also off Fifth Avenue, is smaller and more discrete in nature and is signified by an entry canopy that relates to circulation along the north side of the Civic Center along Cherry Street.

PROJECT PARTICIPANTS


Gustafson Partners	Swift & Company Landscape Architects	Pam Beyette
Hurlen Construction	Valley Electric	Hoffman Structures Inc.
R.W. Rhine Inc.	Columbia Stone Inc.	Holaday-Parks
Aztech Electric Inc.	KLB Construction	Emerald Services
Condon-Johnson	Fought & Company	Ming Surveyors