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If you've ever thought of building your own boat, you are not alone. The road can be long, but the rewards are great Not many events in life are as [...]

Seattle's city librarian, Deborah Jacobs, doesn't pause or equivocate when she's asked what the glittering glass starship newly landed in the heart of downtown celebrates. To her, it represents neither […]

A web of dry desert washes--more mellifluously called arroyos in Spanish--laces the city of Tucson, forming conduits for urban coyotes, dirt-bikers, and, periodically, mocha-brown flash floods of staggering ferocity. Normally--and [...]

The West Seattle neighborhood hated the idea from the start. Habitat for Humanity introduced it as the Roxbury Project, but residents heard only that last word, envisioning 'project housing' rising [...]

Real Seattleites--mossbacks, we might call ourselves--are natural connoisseurs of the color gray. Gray skies, gray seas, a landscape often revealed through a gray scrim of fog or drizzle: none of [...]

CITY Seemingly liberal, tolerant. nonconformist and proud of it. Santa Fe has long been deeply conservative when confronted with issues of tradition and change. In architecture, it has resolutely looked [...]

Driving into Tacoma on a clear day for an international press preview of the Museum of Glass, Arthur Erickson noted for the first time that the peak of Mt. Rainier, [...]

LEARNING FROM WUKOKI Twenty miles northeast of Flagstaff, the great ponderosa forest of the Coconino Plateau evaporates suddenly into a sere desert of pale red sand, black volcanic cinders, and [...]

Desert animals and even plants are smarter than most of us bipeds when it comes to negotiating an accommodation with the environment. Rattlesnakes slither under a rock to wait out [...]

Will Bruder transforms a Scottsdale, Arizona, cinema into a cultural landmark. Enough Will Bruder buildings are sprinkled around Phoenix, Arizona, that people almost know what to expect from the 52-year-old [...]

Age: 33 Education: University of New Mexico Current position: Associate, Antoine Predock Architect, Albuquerque, New Mexico Quirkiest research project at work: Scanning the Internet for images of UFOs to paste [...]

Age: 30 Education: University of Arizona, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Current position: Partner, DeBartolo Architects, Phoenix, Arizona Radical career change: Used to work for desert shaman Will Bruder; now works [...]

'It's a blood-and-guts building from the concept right up,' says architect Robert Hull, whose cheerful appraisal would resonate around woodsy Mercer Island, Washington, like the report of a hunter's rifle. [...]

IT'S NOT HARD TO INVEST AN OFFICE ENVIRONMENT with the spirit of SeattLe: All you need is a jazzy fusion of informality and unpredictability, a tangible sizzle, and staggering ocean […]

by Lawrence W. Cheek Frank Stella and friends gather at Seattle's R.C. Hedreen Company by NBBJ Pocked and scarred and showing every one of their 81 years of service, 25 […]

by Lawrence W. Cheek Firm: Mithun Site: Woodinville, Washington The mood is serene, the materials unpretentious, the geometry sober. "No gratuitous lines" is how Mithun principal Kim Munizza puts it. […]

by Lawrence W. Cheek A sales-and-marketing satellite in Bellevue, Washington, runs an SkB Architects operating system based on fun The private office used to be a perk at Microsoft Corporation, […]

Allied Works demonstrates that modernism, meticulously detailed, makes a good neighbor. When he said that his architectural dream was 'to make a 20th-century building in Portland before the end of [...]

Urban Planning Washington State may have taken as much as a $2 billion hit from the earthquake that rattled Seattle February 28, but architects, geophysicists, and public officials have all [...]

ANTOINE PREDOCK, ARCHITECT Minneapolis, for too much of the year, has a scurry-for-cover environment, which explains why we don't encounter Antoine Predock's usual premeditated complications in the entry sequence at [...]

Microsoft mogul Paul Allen is Seattle's new architecture angel. Lawrence W. Cheek wonders how his patronage will change America's coffee capital. Patronage Seattle pedestrians don't jaywalk. Attribute it to our [...]

Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects/Smith Group Nature, that sly vamp, orchestrated the perfect launch for the audaciously complicated and expensive rehab of Kansas City's once-great beaux-arts train station. On an [...]

Clumsy new condo buildings are threatening a lively and welcoming Seattle neighborhood. Lawrence W. Cheek says enough is enough. Seattle has brewed a new word for gentrification, and it is [...]

Will the new rules of smart growth turn architects into density entrepreneurs? Lawrence W. Cheek pounds the pavement with a new breed of designer devoted to exploiting underdeveloped sites. Business: [...]

In San Diego architect Public invents a new kind of addition to the suburban tract house. Su Mei Yu and Italo Scanga's San Diego home was a drab, cheaply built, [...]

Civano mixes New Urbanism with green design. Lawrence W. Cheek tests the results. City Over the quarter-century I lived in Tucson, the city doubled in size and died by a [...]

It wasn't conceived as a controversial knockout punch for Seattle's sedate downtown, but Rem Koolhaas' design for a new 355,000-squarefoot central library, unveiled December 15, has inspired at least as [...]

'Truth against the world,' the family motto that Frank Lloyd Wright forged into his own larger-than-life persona, has doggedly endured as the unspoken operating principle at Taliesin and Taliesin West [...]

I live in a vast and meticulously planned community east of downtown Seattle that purports to be an Eden for kids. The public schools in the neighborhood have a good [...]

I asked a builder of $500,000-plus tract houses--spec mansions, really--why a family with readily available funds would buy a generic house instead of hiring an architect and designing a home [...]

Seattle's new symphony hall is easy on the ears, not on the eyes. Deep in the opening movement of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 comes a very low F-natural growl [...]

The article focuses on NBBJ design partner and interior designer Rysia Suchecka's partnership with Heliotrope Architects to redesign her weekend home on Washington's Orcas Island. The structure is described as a transparent boxcar whose long sides are largely floor-to-ceiling glass. A smaller boxcar located between the public space and the master bedroom preserves the home's interior openness by storing utilitarian items such as food and clothes. Most of the furniture was designed by Suchecka herself with some pieces built by an island cabinetmaker.

The article reviews an exhibition of a museum-worthy collection of contemporary art in the 14,000 square foot office of a U.S. Pacific Northwest entrepreneur.

The article describes the design created by the principals of SkB Architects for a studio. Doug McKenzie's fellow principals--Brian Collins-Friedrichs, Kyle C. Gaffney, and Shannon Rankin--designed the new space, and construction took six months. A pair of conventional conference rooms offer seating for eight and 12. Between the two, a smaller, denlike retreat is furnished with a casual low sectional sofa and an amoeboid lens Risom coffee table.

Provides information on the architectural design of the Seattle Central Library in Washington by architects Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Ramus. Information on the library's first day of normal business on May 24, 2004; Background on the design process of the structure; Key to the organization of the building; Description of the interior design of the library.

Provides information on the architectural design of an urban landform for floor protection in Tucson, Arizona. Description of the landform; Benefits of the landform to the city; Overview of the structural design.

Presents the design of the Museum of Glass, International Center for Contemporary Art in Tacoma, Washington. Building's east elevation; Architectural features; Main floor plan.

Focuses on the architecture in Arizona. History of architecture in the state; Description of Phoenix and Tucson; Architects who practiced in Arizona; Examples of architect-designed buildings.

Features architect Jerry Waters' Jeddeloh Guest House in Portland, Oregon. Description of the foundation; Interior design of the country house.

Presents news briefs on architecture as of February 2000. Reopening of the renovated Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, France; Criticisms on Rem Koolhaas' architectural design of the central library in Seattle, Washington; Appointment of K. Michael Hays as adjunct curator of architecture at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, New York.

Focuses on the hillside California house designed by the Daly, Genik architecture firm. Comments from Kevin Daly and Chris Genik; Distinctive feature of the California house; Information on the architectural plan of the house; Description of the house's interior.

Profiles Kira Sowanick, an associate at the Antoine Predock Architect in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Educational background; Her work in Predock's office; Her plans for the future.

Profiles Jack DeBartolo 3, a partner at the DeBartolo Architects in Phoenix, Arizona. Educational background; Radical career change; His view on his role at the company.

The article focuses on the architectural design of several buildings at Arizona State University in Tempe including the Nelson Fine Arts Center by Antoine Predock Architect, the Hayden Library addition by Sasaki Associates and the college of architecture and environmental design by the Hiller Group. It states that the art center contains the university art museum, dance and theater departments. It cites that the exterior of the college of architecture and environmental design building is constructed of a grid of 18-by-24 inch concrete block.