Photo by Honna Briggs Kimmerer The Ninth and Jefferson Building, completed in 2009, has a brick base and granite columns at street level.

This 14-story, 450,000-square-foot medical office building provides space for King County, the University of Washington and Harborview Medical Center.

The ground floor has an active street facade facing James Street, with retail shops and a main lobby adjacent to Jefferson Street. The first floors include research labs, pathology labs, outpatient imaging, the county medical examiner’s office, and the county civil commitment court.

The exterior is a combination of classic “Harborview” brick at the base, punched window openings and Giallo granite columns at street level. A glass curtain wall along with metal panels, metal grilles and granite are woven together to enclose the tower.