loft living at funkylofts.com

       MOSLER LOFTS : “One of the most influential developments shaping the future design of Seattle”       Seattle Homes & Lifestyles Magazine

       Pictured above, a few of the state-of-the-art green features  found at Mosler Lofts, 3rd & Clay. Live a cleaner, greener lifestyle thanks to low maintenance, energy saving design & building materials. 6 remaining homes available for purchase. For more information, send us an e.mail, we are: urbanites@funkylofts.com.

  Deyvis Hugo Condori Cordova is growing up in a rural community in the Andean hills of Peru, where streams run through the irregular terrain. His home is constructed of sun-dried bricks, with a straw roof and a dirt floor. Deyvis was born on September 15th, 2005, and will continue to live with his parents, 1 older sister & brother, despite their struggle to provide for the family. Funkylofts monthly sponsorship commitment as well as a portion of each commission earned from real estate transactions will help provide Deyvis Hugo, his family, and his community with clean water, improved health care, improved farming techniques to increase food production, and help build new schools. Please refer to World Vision link in sidebar to view foto & footprint of funkylofts sponsored child.

Developer:Dunn + Hobbes, LLC

Architect: Miller Hull Partnership

The 1310 east union lofts are located on the east edge of the Pike-Pine neighborhood. This was Dunn & Hobbes’ (Liz Dunn & her Labrador retriever) first new construction project, completed in 2001. It was designed by the Miller|Hull Partnership, winners of the 2003 AIA National Firm of the Year award. The engineers were Swenson Say Faget and the general contractor was Turner Constuction’s Special Projects Division. Its distinctive steel-and-concrete design won numerous local and national AIA awards and the project has been featured in a number of national publications.

As pictured left, the glass exterior features bright red seismic X-bracing which crisscrosses the central bay with balconies and therefore neighborliness on both sides of the steel and glass tower. Inside, the spaces have a raw industrial feel with heated concrete floors, steel ceilings & huge glazed garage doors that roll up to open whole walls of some of the units. (8 units in total with 8 parking spaces made possible by European-style hydraulic parking lift that allows two cars to be stacked in a single space)

Dunn & Hobbes is currently constructing a multi-phased mixed-use project on a highly visible site bounded by 11th, 12th and Pike St., also in the Pike-Pine neighborhood. It is being designed by Weinstein A|U, multiple AIA award-winners and architects of the iconic Banner Building in Belltown. (client/women developer, Koryn Rolstad)The first phase of construction was the renovation of the historic Piston & Ring building, now substantially complete, which is home to Cafe Stellina and Osteria La Spiga. For more info regarding this project, please visit www.12thandpike.com.   

Designed by internationally renowned architects of Ateliers Jean Nouveau, www.jeannouvel.com, the Guthrie Theatre is a 285,000 square foot complex which rises boldly on its riverfront site. The circular form of its thrust theatre echoes the adjacent grain silos, its size in harmony with the volume of nearby flour mills, its metal sheeting evoking the industrial and agrarian buildings of Minneapolis’ past. Three vertical LED signs on top of the Guthrie reflect the vintage signage in the area, and a cantilevered “endless bridge” extending the equivalent of 12 stories toward the Mississippi provides spectacular views of the historic river valley. For more information go to the NY Times Theater Review.
Here are a few words from Ateliers Jean Nouvel describing one of their masterpieces, the Icelandic National Concert & Conferance Centre/hotel in Reykjavik.

Here we have an invented landscape, totally modern, new, artificial, that marries with the familiar silhouette of Iceland’s mountains, borrows its natural materials, rocks and stones, basalt and red lava, moss and lichens in a sort of feigned mimicry. Feigned, because mixed with these natural materials are materials from human industry: glass in various states and colors; bright satin aluminum for cladding the little buildings of the hotel whose forms echo of the domestic fabric of the city nearby. This friction between nature and artifice continues beneath the hill: the meandering public spaces serving the different program functions are treated as a sort of luminous cavern made of undulating walls of wood stripping and supple, gently sloping floors. The functional elements are designed with the preciousness they require. Set like gemstones in their somewhat rough and unpolished gangue, they appear all the more comfortable and refined.

Hljodaklettur is a landscape-object that openly displays its contrasts and contradictions. Serious and relaxed; familiar and strange; mysterious and open; simple and sophisticated. Opaque, luminous, modest, aristocratic, it seeks to intrigue. Like its name: Hljodaklettur.