The design for the Spring Street project for Lennar Development creates a destination center at the crossroads for multiple neighborhoods. The project’s alley serves as the neighborhood center, embracing and integrating the adjacent institution of Town Hall into a lively experience with friendly, active spaces to accommodate concerts and other outdoor activities, lined with retail, coffee shops, and restaurants. With multiple access points, the alley and plazas are protected from the freeway noise, offering a friendly, safe and useful space for residents and neighbors. The architecture is carefully shaped to reflect light and circulate air into an active alley space, while protecting from noise and weather.
A variety of residential living experiences is offered including ground-related townhouses, tower loft units, and a mix of residential units designed with efficiency and flexibility for the future. Units are designed around highly-efficient systems and floor plans, with careful orientation to light and view. The buildings are placed to take optimum advantage of the many spectacular views of the city and the region, from the downtown skyline to Mt. Rainier.
Seattle,WA USA
Olympic Gateway Bremerton,WA
Bremerton’s nautical heritage as a naval station, and depot for ship and submarine building during the wars was significant in the design of the Olympic Gateway Project. In a city where buildings were historically erected and torn down per the needs of local industry, and fluctuation in a corresponding population, few call on the heritage of the place in helping illustrate the building as being specific to that place. The Olympic Gateway draws upon the heritage of Bremerton and embraces its location along the waters of the Puget Sound as a visual entryway to the region and establishes itself as an icon on the city’s waterfront as its tallest building at 240 feet (73m). The project’s two towers reflect a nuanced nautical theme in their materiality and form, with ship-like decks, curved balconies, glass handrails and “crow’s nest” rooftop amenity spaces. Its porthole entry and hotel porch-cochere serve as the project’s front door and as an inviting access point to views to the water beyond.
The building’s podium creates a platform for the project’s two residential towers, containing a 115 key hotel, restaurant/retail and amenity programming. A walkway connecting the project with adjoining properties takes advantage of the project’s seaside location and eastern exposure and stunning sunrise views.
Seattle,WA USA
Crescent 5th & Ash
Tempe,AZ
Tempe’s popularity, fueled in part by a nearby university and growing population of young people is an emergent destination. GGLO’s design response for a mixed use development including Restaurant/Retail, Super Market, Hotel and Apartments in a prime location in the city was to capture some of the vibrancy and enthusiasm, and with a respectful eye on the city’s often harsh and hot weather, develop a refreshing and vibrant urban oasis that enables an active lifestyle, stimulates community connections and celebrates the outdoors with an overarching sense of hospitality. The design approach is based on five urban design principals refined and applied specifically to optimize the unique combination of site location, program and surrounds.
1. Porosity and Pedestrian Scale
2. Leveraging Views and Neighborhood Amenities
3. A Layered Approach – Density as Place-making
4. Design that supports 24/7 Living Maximizing efficiency through design
Seattle,WA USA
WSU Multicultural Center
Pullman,WA
Prominently situated at the main entry to the WSU Pullman Campus, the Multicultural Center expands the notion of what it means to be affiliated with the venerable institution. Cultural awareness and acceptance, celebration of heritage, restoration of native landscapes, and sense of place are all expressed through the unapologetic, yet dynamically illustrative form of the 16,000 sf building, turning the concept of what is building and what is landscape on its head.
With its design inspired by an indigenous philosophy of respect and interdependence between humans and nature, entries and communal spaces spill out into a restored native Palouse Prairie landscape, with floor, roof and walls undulating with the topography of the site.
**Design-Build concept created in partnership with Absher Construction
Seattle,WA USA
Green Oasis The Cascades
Surabaya, Indonesia
The Green Cascades development posits itself as the new icon in the Surabaya skyline, with dramatic features in its 200 m/656-foot height, with cascading sky gardens amidst its façade. The development is distinct amid the mature fabric of the project’s immediate context. The project is comprised of elements of familiar scale and textures to create a new, resolutely modern destination for Indonesia’s second largest city.
The project’s three towers include a 100 meter, repurposed and re-clad structure, resurrected from a previous development endeavor on the site and two new towers reaching 157 meters and 200 meters respectively, all erected a 12 story parking structure. The three towers contain Residential, Serviced Apartments, Hospitality, Office, and Retail programming.
The cascading garden and amenity elements of the project provide outdoor space and a connection to nature for both residents, hotel and office occupants alike. The podium roof-top provides an urban garden environment adjacent to restaurants, lounge/bar and other amenity spaces. These areas provide a casual yet elegant environment for gathering and dining, establishing The Cascades Tower as the new urban hub for Surabayan city nightlife.
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Seattle,WA USA
Mirador
Seattle,WA USA
The highlight of cities updating their zoning guidelines to recognize and accommodate a kinder, more gentle environment for people and moving away from a previous generation’s ideas that the automobile was the mechanism by which guidelines were made and our cities were crafted, is that new architectural forms can be established to accommodate those needs. The Miridor is one of the very first examples of a project designed in Bellevue,WA to
The Mirador project, designed for Beijingbased Create World Development, sets a new standard for residential/mixed-use development in the region, and establishes itself apart from other projects in the surrounding downtown district in several key ways - establishing a generous set back from the street edge, highlighting the project’s retail base and activating the street with circulation for pedestrians; by creating a unique façade for an otherwise normal building envelope with texture, material and form; creating duplex apartments at the project’s top floors to offset the building’s profile and establish generous balconies. The project’s 162 residential units, and a floor of commercial office space sit atop 2 floors of retail on a prominent corner in the city’s retail district.
Seattle,WA USA
5th & Virginia
Seattle, WA USA
This study, for a 490,000 sf | 45,500 sqm tower in a prominent location in Seattle for Douglaston Development, is intended as an iconic intervention into a part of the city where development of this type has not occurred in many years. As a project for the established NYC developer, the project represents a new segue into the market with Residential, Hospitality and Retail programming, helping anchor an important urban corner and create a new “place” in the city for upscale urban living and a destination for the sophisticated traveler.
Establishing an architectural theme for each respective element, Residential, Hospitality and Retail was important in establishing a dialogue to create hierarchy and an understanding of the project’s individual elements as discrete entities, juxtaposed with its complex urban context and dizzying scales.
The three governing scales that makes good architecture a good citizen of a city are: Pedestrian, Urban Room and Skyline
Shanghai, China
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As part of a land acquisition effort for the Shaanxi Culture Investment Group, several studies were developed to help the client garner favour in securing the land for the development of a new project. The studies ranged from simple to the elaborate in its design approach.
As a result, the client has had success with their submission to government and the projects will move forward with full-service contracts for the design of the projectr.
Shanghai, China
Sanya Waterfront Master Plan Mixed-Use Development
Sanya, China
The Sanya Waterfront Mixed-Use Development project was a competition for the development of 430,000 GSM on a promintory between the outlet of the Sanya River and the Ocean on a site overlooking nearby Turning Head Deer Mountain and the adjacent man-made Phoenix Island.
In addition to the project’s main iconic elements (Hotel, Office Tower and Shopping Mall) the real highlight for not only the project, but the district as well, is the newly exposed and reclaimed corniche, providing public access to the water’s edge for the first time in many decades; a much neeeded public amenity.
“A Sea of Green meets a Sea of Blue:”
The “Sea of Green” meeting a Sea of Blue is a wavy-edged tilted roof-plane of vegetation hovering above a retail podium, providing coverage, and much needed shading between the base of the various towers and the retail spaces below. The creation of such an iconic “Sea of Green” is a direct response in re-claimation of a place for nature on what is currently an environmental disaster zone, and providing a unique urban setting for the project along the sea edge.
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Shanghai, China
Chengdu E-Zone Mixed-Use Development
Chengdu, China
The Chengdu E-Zone Mixed-Use Development project is a 184,000 GSM facility on a corner site adjacent to a large uban park in a prominant location within the city. The office towers, raise to a height of 200 and 175 meters respectivly for the South and North blocks, offering views out toward the park to the east.
Three schemes were initially proposed to the client and ultimately one design is to be developed for construction.
The retail component resides within the bottom three floors of both towers, as well as external shopping streets between them.
