We were pleased to attend the PSBJ's 2023 Economic Outlook at the new Seattle Convention Center. It was a privilege to hear from local leaders and economists, and to take an honest look at the challenging but promising years ahead for our region. 

Despite economic headwinds, Seattle remains one of the most desirable and economically fruitful cities on the West Coast. SABA views shifts in the commercial office market as an incredible opportunity for our city to explore equitable housing, green spaces, hospitality, childcare and a renewed vision for the urban heart of Seattle. 

In addition, we and our partners continue to deliver work for the ever-growing Biotech communities in Seattle, Bothell, and Everette and essential healthcare providers in Washington and Spokane.

The venue serves at as reminder that Seattle is a city ever-opening to the world and the Economic Outlook gave us hope for a Seattle full of potential.  We look forward to exploring these ideas with you in 2023-24.

Path with Art was featured in the DJC this week. SABA is proud to partner with non-profits organizations who are helping to realize Seattle's shared mission of creating a healthier and more accessible city.

Click here for a link to the article. 

Path with Art in the Daily Journal of Commerce

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300 Pine, the 1928 Art Deco building, originally occupied by the Bon Marche, was transformed from a retail space to office space in 2018 for a tech client. The circulating stair connects floors 3-8 and the roof and later extended down to level 2 in 2021. 

The 7’ wide stair is a major connecting element, a center of energy, bringing light down in the heart of the building and serving as a circulating architectural stair for office space. 

Choosing a contemporary expression, referencing the building’s concrete structure the stair is made of precast concrete treads, which was detailed so it visually floats in the opening. Steel plate guardrails with a wood hand rails add a sense of openness, while the wood wall running the height of the stair brings warmth into the building and serves as a back drop for the stair.

300 Pine, the 1928 Art Deco building, originally occupied by the Bon Marche, was transformed from a retail space to office space in 2018 for a tech client, the circulating stair connects floors 3-8 and the roof and later extended down to level 2 in 2021. The 7’ wide stair is a major connecting element, a center of energy, bringing light down in the heart of the building and serving as a circulating architectural stair for office space. 

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Thank you to every who helped us celebrate sixteen years of design, hard work, and friendship. Click the link below to see the video from our party.

Swinerton Builders and SABArchitects are currently expanding our ongoing partnership with the new design/build construction of this 12,500 SF early education center on the UC Santa Cruz campus. The center will serve 140 children in a Family Student Housing development. 

The project presents numerous interesting challenges and opportunities including Triple Net Zero sustainability requirements, energy modeling and stakeholder presentations to increase community comfort with the proposed land use. The design extends the learning environment outdoors to areas of play. In coordination with Eric Nelson, the team has created an outdoor classroom for each age group designed with emphasis on natural exploration. 

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The Early Education Center has been uniquely paired with the Psychology department at UCSC which establishes a direct relationship between the playful learning environment of children and the intellectual world of the University. The design/build team has incorporated research rooms adjacent to each classroom to facilitate observation and analysis of early education environments.

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The ArtHOME design team outside of the space at grand opening event.

An inclusive community arts hub for creation, connection, and restoration

Frank Lloyd Wright designed buildings that respond to their surroundings and function as a unified organism in the landscape. A detailed study of any of his projects reveals a sequence deliberate visitor experiences from the outdoors to a sense of shelter, and frequently strong connections to a hearth or fireplace.

Wright used spatial concepts include changing volumes, a sense of shelter and place, and frequent opportunities to connect to nature, both visually and physically through specific design elements.

Decades later, Roger Ulrich explicitly built on this with focused studies on healthcare spaces, nature, and the impact on recovery. The basis is that well designed spaces with a connection to place and nature reduce stress and relax people and promote better outcomes.

Healthcare also consists of a sequence of experiences. Exceptional health care uses good design to organize a rational geometry to create wayfinding and a sense of place that result in an experience where the visitor feels a similar sense of comfort, shelter and connection to nature that Frank Lloyd Wright’s buildings did.

Corridors that have access to daylight and visual objectives to nature and the outdoors are perceived as much more comfortable than similar lacking daylighting or vistas.

The common theme is deliberate design objectives for the sequence of spaces that is well thought out and enhances the patient experience.

SABA Healthcare: Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Clinic at Kraken Community Iceplex

Virginia Mason Franciscan Health's new clinic at the Kraken Community Iceplex in Northgate is set to open Oct. 18.

"Virginia Mason Franciscan Health's new clinic at the Kraken Community Iceplex in Northgate is set to open Oct. 18.

The 5,400 square-feet facility offers primary care and sports medicine expertise for the Northgate neighborhood, as well as on-site lab and X-ray services, a physical therapy gym and private consultation room inside the $80 million Seattle Kraken training facility, which opened in September.

It's the first clinic to open since Virginia Mason merged with CHI Franciscan Health in early 2021.

"This pavilion ... delivers on our promise to increase access to high-quality health care in our community,” said Virginia Mason Franciscan Health CEO Ketul J. Patel. “Our team is excited to begin welcoming patients to this innovative new space.”

In addition to a neighborhood clinic, the facility will also house the Kraken's medical staff and treat its players, coaches and staff, as the team's official medical provider.

“Virginia Mason Franciscan Health has been a great partner of ours since the beginning, and are already playing a big role in keeping our players and staff healthy,” said Tod Leiweke, CEO of the Seattle Kraken. “The convenience of having them on site, and their commitment to youth hockey, makes this partnership beneficial for our organization and the community.

Planning for the pavilion, designed by Seattle-based SABArchitects, began in June 2020."

- Source: By Joey Thompson  –  Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal

PSBJ - VIRGINIA MASON FRANCISCAN OPENS CLINIC IN KRAKEN COMMUNITY ICEPLEX

SABA is excited to participate in this year's AIA Film Challenge! This year's prompt was 'Blueprint for Better' and encouraged teams to projects with high community impact and focus. ART+HOME is a video focused on SABA's ongoing work with Path with Art.

Path with Art is a Seattle non-profit aimed at helping individuals affected by trauma and homelessness find stability, meaning, and community through art. Now, in partnership with Plymouth housing and SABArchitects, they will finally have a home base in the Seattle area. This 'Art Home' will enable Path with Art to host additional classes, house exhibitions, and drive their mission in support of Seattle's under-served communities.

See the link below to see our video and vote!

New Hire: Michele Sainte-Starbuck, Senior Laboratory Planner

SABArchitects recently hired Michele Sainte-Starbuck as a Senior Lab Planner. Michele holds a Bachelor of Architecture from WSU and has over  37 years of experience. With a deep background in fine art, and graphic and spatial design, Michele appreciates the art of science. She believes that the facilities we build for the brightest science minds of today “must evolve as robust, adaptable and inspirational canvases for tomorrow.” As a Laboratory Planner and Architect, Michele is passionate about the functionality of science-clients’ environments. Her work has focused on laboratory projects of varying types and sizes, on both east and west coasts of the U.S. As an advocate for multidisciplinary design collaboration, her approach is to orchestrate clientele, user groups, consultant teams, and contractors toward a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. At SABA, Michele will bolster a thriving life science team, providing mentorship and project leadership, allowing us to support a rapidly growing life science community in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

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SABArchitects recently hired Michele Sainte-Starbuck as a Senior Lab Planner. Michele holds a Bachelor of Architecture from WSU and has over 37 years of experience. With a deep background in fine art, and graphic and spatial design, Michele appreciates theart of science. She believes that the facilities we build for the brightest science minds of today “must evolve as robust, adaptable and inspirational canvases for tomorrow.” As a Laboratory Planner and Architect, Michele is passionate about the functionality of science-clients’ environments. Her work has focused on laboratory projects of varying types and sizes, on both east and west coasts of the U.S. As an advocate for multidisciplinary design collaboration, her approach is to orchestrate clientele, user groups, consultant teams, and contractors toward a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. At SABA, Michele will bolster a thriving life science team, providing mentorship and project leadership, allowing us to support a rapidly growing life science community in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

SABA Shorts: Life Science Design in the Pacific Northwest

SABArchitect's principals Bob Vizenor and Arthur Furukawa discuss the design, trends, and next steps for life science in the Pacific Northwest.

The new 46,000-square-foot CellNetix headquarters

"The Tukwila space, which is expected to open in April, is under a construction redesign of the existing structure by SABArchitects and Turner Construction. Sabey Corporation is leasing the space to CellNetix."

See the link below for the full article in the Puget Sound Business Journal:

CELLNETIX PLANS TO RELOCATE, SPURRED BY SEATTLE CONGESTION

The Tukwila space, which is expected to open in April, is under a construction redesign of the existing structure by SABArchitects and Turner Construction. Sabey Corporation is leasing the space to CellNetix.

The Nature Conservancy- AGC Award Winner 2017

The Nature Conservancy at the Skyway Building wins AGC award for construction excellence in the TI under $5 million category! 

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Duane Jonlin, FAIA, Energy Code Advisor for Seattle's SDCI, highlights a number of new and significant provisions in the upcoming "2018" Washington state and Seattle energy codes, each provision leading towards sharply reduced energy consumption and carbon emissions from our built environment. Daniella Moreano Wahler, PE, of PAE Engineers, suggests the smartest and most economical means of complying with (or exceeding) these requirements, so that we will all feel comfortable discussing options with our clients and consultants.

Duane Jonlin, FAIA, Energy Code Advisor for Seattle's SDCI, highlights a number of new and significant provisions in the upcoming "2018" Washington state and Seattle energy codes, each provision leading towards sharply reduced energy consumption and carbonemissions from our built environment. Daniella Moreano Wahler, PE, of PAE Engineers, suggests the smartest and most economical means of complying with (or exceeding) these requirements, so that we will all feel comfortable discussing options with our clients and consultants.

During the period that the Flagship Macy’s (previously Bon Marche) store occupied this historic building, this room functioned as the alterations shop where tailors worked to customize clothes. They used a variety of equipment like mechanical sewing machines, a large seam press, and more to creatively complete their work.

What was once a workshop for craft and creativity has now been transformed into a workplace common area, where people can collaborate and enjoy each other’s company. Pairing something old with something new, SABA was able to create a modern and vibrant space while paying homage to the cultural history of the building it occupies. 

The entrance to the Tailor Shop features a historic photo of tailors from 1948 paired with a bright neon sign that serves to preserve the original name of the historic Tailor Shop space. The long hallway graphic is a recreation of vintage sewing patterns overlaid with a glossary of sewing stitches; the vintage patterns reappear on the glass graphics inside the space in a collage format that also provide privacy as needed. 

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Arthur Furukawa, one of SABA’s founding principals will be speaking at the Bisnow Seattle Life Sciences event. He and 3 other panelists will be talking about innovations in construction in the life sciences sector.

More information found here.

What You'll Learn: 

What makes Seattle an attractive cluster for life science developers, investors, and tenants? Does it measure up to national leaders like Boston and West coast neighbor San Francisco?

How and where has the market grown over the last 18 months? How does the area's vast technological community affect everything from initial research to manufacture?

With record-low vacancy rates, what is being done to meet the current demand for specialized space? How have incubators fit into the market? What assets are being repurposed into specialized lab and manufacturing space? What is in the pipeline for large tenants looking to move from research to large-scale product development?

How have submarkets, like Bothell, emerged as activity leaders in the area? What is hot right now and what are the plans for the future?

Seattle's life science cluster has grown exponentially with the development of tens of millions of square feet and hundreds of millions of dollars flowing through the area. Join us to discover where Seattle ranks among other coastal and central national leaders, and identify what opportunities are available for expansion and entry into this explosive market. 

Owners, operators, developers, investors, brokers, city and government officials, business consultants, architects, engineers, lawyers, accountants, bankers, and more!

Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to identify opportunities, build your network and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business more than us. Join Bisnow as we jump into the market in Seattle to analyze its strengths and strategize on its areas of opportunity.

Seattle's life science cluster has grown exponentially with the development of tens of millions of square feet and hundreds of millions of dollars flowing through the area. Join us to discover where Seattle ranks among other coastal and central national leaders, and identify what opportunities are available for expansion and entry into this explosive market.

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ArtHOME, an inclusive community arts hub for creation, connection, and restoration had its grand opening on 9/24/22. SABA is proud to have participated in the design of an exciting new resource to Seattle's community.

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