seattle’s new civic square team announced

after months of working on the competition submittal for the new seattle civic square project, our team from gglo made the short list.  today mayor nickels announced that we won the lead architect for the project!  the project is aiming for LEED platinum as well as being a carbon neutral site.

Seattle Times, Residential, office tower could rise across from City Hall:

In another move to create a residential neighborhood in downtown Seattle, Mayor Greg Nickels said this morning the block-wide hole in the ground across from Seattle City Hall will be turned into a $300 million “civic square” with a 32-story condo and office high-rise.

“This will give our city a new iconic landmark,” Nickels said at a news conference.

The square will also include a retail area and more than half the block will be designed as open public gathering space. The buildings will use solar power, recycled rain water and wind turbines. A transit station for the bus tunnel will run underneath.

The lead architect is Seattle-based GGLO and project design will be lead by London-based Foster + Partners, best known for working on the German Parliament building in Berlin, the new master plan for Trafalgar Square in London, the Hong Kong airport and the Millau Viaduct in France.