The Arbor Blocks is a pair of six-story office buildings developed by Vulcan Real Estate in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. Located on either side of a two-lane right-of-way (8th Avenue West) ...

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In architecture terms, diapering is the use of a repeating pattern — a diamond pattern, for example — in brick on a building. The architect C. Emlen Urban incorporated diapering into a school ...

“Marcelo showed me how great the old curving roof was,” the developer recalls. “It became clear that saving the building would be the most beautiful and environmental solution.” In transforming the ...