A proposed eight-story development in Interbay with nearly 100 apartments will again go before the West Design Review Board later this month.
A recommendation phase meeting for the project is set for Dec. 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the Queen Anne Community Center (1901 1st Ave. W.), almost 10 months after architects received positive feedback on the plan during early design guidance.
The proposal for 3008 16th Ave. W. currently calls for 93 residential units and 45 parking spaces; down one apartment and eight spots from what was presented in February.
At that meeting, the board expressed its support for the project’s preferred “Jewel Box,” massing option, and how it affected the configuration of its units (providing both a north or south view in addition to one of 15th Avenue West), and a rooftop common room.
The board also encouraged the continued development of an, “articulated, modulated, and textured design expression,” to keep the design from becoming merely a flat cube, and wanted to see a potential blank façade on the building’s north side be further studied, both in terms how it would interact with future development and how to integrate art or another cultural reflection in the meantime.
Pastakia + Associates and Teutsch Partners are the developers for the site, with Urbal Architecture serving as project architects. That firm lists the, “contrasting composition [which] consists of a grounded base and light upper stories with shimmering, airy details,” and, “contemporary facades with a mix of highly transparent materials, vertical metal siding and unique geometric angles,” as among the project’s key features on its website.
Comments on site planning and design issues regarding the development may be submitted through Dec. 12 via email to PRC@seattle.gov, or to City of Seattle – Seattle DCI – PRC, 700 5th Avenue, Suite 2000, PO Box 34019, Seattle, WA 98124-4019.
For more information on the development, and a full list of documents, visit web6.seattle.gov/dpd/edms/ and enter project number 3026027.
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