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The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is an international architectural firm with offices in Rotterdam, New York, Hong Kong, Doha, and Australia. The firm is currently led by eight partners - Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Ellen van Loon, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, Chris van Duijn, Jason Long, and managing partner and architect David Gianotten.
Macy's (former Bon Marché), Seattle, 1929; Naval Reserve Armory, Seattle, 1942 [1] Pacific Tower, Seattle, 1932; Sanctuary at Admiral, Seattle, 1929; Schmitz Park Bridge, Seattle, 1936; Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, 1933 [1] Seattle Tower (former Northern Life Tower), Seattle, 1927; SIFF Cinema Uptown (former Uptown Theatre), Seattle ...
The Lake Washington Ship Canal and Ballard Locks (a.k.a. Hiram M. Chittenden Locks), opened in 1917, were funded by Washington state but built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. [174] The Administration Building for the locks was designed by prominent Seattle architects Bebb and Gould and completed 1916.
Historic Preservation in Seattle. Seattle: Historic Seattle Preservation and Development Society. Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl (1994). Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 339. ISBN 0-295-97366-8
The 11-story (185 feet or 56.9 meters high) glass and steel building in the downtown core of Seattle, Washington was opened to the public on May 23, 2004. Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus of OMA/LMN were the principal architects, and Magnusson Klemencic Associates was the structural engineer with Arup. Arup also provided mechanical ...
Partners Charles Herbert Bebb and Carl Freylinghausen Gould were jointly responsible for the construction of many buildings on the University of Washington's Seattle campus, as well as the Seattle Times Square Building (1914), Everett Public Library, U.S. Marine Hospital (1930–32, now known as Pacific Tower and converted to mixed use), and ...
This article lists the oldest extant buildings in Washington (state), including extant buildings and structures constructed prior to and during the United States rule over Washington. Only buildings built prior to 1860 are suitable for inclusion on this list, or the building must be the oldest of its type.
The site of the Hoge building, at 705 Second Avenue, was the location of the cabin of Carson Boren, reputedly the first white man's house in what was to become Seattle. [4] The cabin was later replaced by a row of 1 and 2 story shops facing Cherry Street which would all be destroyed by the Great Seattle fire. [5]