888 Tower

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888 Tower
Alternative names 888 Second Avenue
General information
Status Proposed
Type Mixed-use
Address 888 2nd Avenue
Seattle, Washington
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Estimated completion 2019[citation needed]
Height
Roof 888 feet (271 m)
Technical details
Floor count 60
Floor area 1.3 million square feet (120,000 m2)
Design and construction
Architecture firm NBBJ
Developer Urban Visions
Structural engineer Magnusson Klemencic Associates
References
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888 Tower,[3] also referred to as 888 Second Avenue,[1] is a proposed 888-foot-tall (271 m) skyscraper in Downtown Seattle.[1] It would be mixed-use, consisting of retail space on the ground floor, and offices and condominiums on higher floors; the tower would occupy the full city block between 2nd and 3rd Avenues and Columbia and Marion streets.[4] When completed, it would become the second-tallest building in Seattle and the fifth-tallest on the West Coast of the United States.[4]

In 2013, developer Urban Visions filed preliminary permits for a 77-story, 1,200-foot-tall (370 m) supertall skyscraper that would have eclipsed the Columbia Center as the tallest building in Seattle.[5] A competition was held in 2014 to select a design for the supertall tower, resulting in Urban Visions favoring NBBJ's 60-story proposal over a 77-story proposal from Gensler.[6][7][8] The NBBJ proposal features a 65-foot-wide (20 m) atrium in the middle of the tower that functions like a skylight; the 60-story tower also incorporates floor layouts that allow for 10 to 15 more people per floor despite the loss of a central core, allowing for the height to be reduced.[4][9]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 888 2nd Avenue at CTBUH Skyscraper Database
  2. 888 Tower at Emporis
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