A modern house on view property with 3,800 SF of living space and a 925 SF detached garage. Primary materials include concrete, steel, and glass. A concrete wall up to twenty-four feet high organizes the site and the house: the garage, entry and service spaces are on the street side of the wall, while providing privacy for the main living space which is a curtain wall-enclosed pavilion.
The wall is also the organizing element for the circulation including the stairs with cantilevered steel treads. Supported on steel frames and triangular steel trusses, the roof swoops over the concrete wall capping the pavilion. Eight by sixteen foot sections of the curtain wall pivot for ventilation. The stair has demountable guardrails which are normally in place but were removed for the photographs.
The master bedroom is in a loft space above the kitchen, while a family room, media room, children’s bedrooms and bathrooms occupy the daylight basement level. There is additional living space above the garage accessible via stair or future elevator.
JTR, now that is one cool house….your best example yet!!!! Seattle is a great city.
Another great selection to raise the standard.
Wow, just wow! Congratulations to all the subcontractors (who rarely get kudos) for the absolutelly beautiful, stunning work.
Jim, who’s the lucky owner or is it for sale?
Nice house.
Aren’t there a lot of depressed people in seattle cause all the rain?I would much prefer ca or Az.
More deals being cut, warming up for the MERS settlement in next 12-24 months?
From WSJ:
Bank of America Corp., after vowing to fight requests that it repurchase certain loans, has begun potential settlement discussions with some of its largest mortgage investors.
The 17-member group now in talks with the nation’s largest bank as measured by assets includes the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, government-owned mortgage company Freddie Mac, BlackRock Inc., and Allianz SE’s Pacific Investment Management Co., or Pimco.
The bank’s approach with this group appears to signal a change in tone for Chief Executive Brian Moynihan, who in November pledged to engage in “day-to-day, hand-to-hand combat” on investor requests to repurchase flawed mortgages made before the U.S. housing collapse.
Bank spokesman James Mahoney said the decision to engage in talks with the investor group isn’t inconsistent with Mr. Moynihan’s previous approach.
“Our strategy hasn’t changed,” he said. “For both Bank of America and the investors, resolving these issues quickly is in everybody’s interest. Whether resolution comes through a protracted process or it can be expedited, time will tell.”
The investors, some of whom are acting on behalf of clients, sent a letter in October alleging that a Bank of America unit didn’t properly service 115 bond deals comprised of residential mortgages. It gave the bank 60 days to respond.
The disclosure of the letter sent Bank of America’s stock tumbling 4.4% on Oct. 19, as investors grappled with concerns that the bank could be overwhelmed with such investor requests. The group has since expanded and now includes 17 investors and 167 bond deals.
Total new mortgage repurchase claims amounted to $12.8 billion at the end of the third quarter, up from $7.5 billion in the year-ago quarter. The bank has set aside $4.4 billion in reserves for these put back attempts.
Mr. Moynihan told analysts Oct. 19 he wasn’t interested in a large lump sum payment to make the repurchase issue go away.
“We’re not going to put this behind us to make us feel good,” he said. “We’re going to make sure that we’ll pay when due but not just do a settlement to move the matter behind us.”
The house is alright, but…
Location, location, location!
Stunning view.
A simply gorgeous view, but the house itself reminds me of a utility (gas, electric) substation. Very cold. Just me I guess.
Is the architect Seattleite Mark Millet?
To all readers: Seattle is rainy ALL the time, the cold chill will pull the marrow out of your bones. And it is very overcast so depression or SAD as it is called, is a very real problem there. Great place to visit, tough to live. Especially if you have lived in California or Arizona. The adjustment will be very hard. IT also snows there and the gale force winds are severe many months of the year. Beware. Better to put up with the range of seasons in the midwest or east than that.
Here’s the architect:
http://www.lawrencearchitecture.com/
I’ve visited the Pacific North West many times during all seasons. There aren’t many days those “walls” will be open to let the natural breeze inside.
That said, very nice home.
Beautiful location, striking house.
The house is impressive to look at, but how would it be to live in it? With all those hard, flat surfaces, the acoustics are likely to be problematic.
I lived in NW Washington for many years. The walls could be beneficially opened up on about 60 to 90 afternoons a year.
Seattle has a far larger number of interesting houses than SoCal, and a huge amount of real ocean view property for far less than SoCal as well. So anyone who doesn’t mind an average 5 to 10 degree drop in temperature over the year and digs clouds should consider it.
I live in West Seattle. Nice house but look at the carnage building this house has caused to the the hillside.
http://westseattleblog.com/2010/12/update-beach-drive-closure-will-continue-at-least-till-tomorrow