The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features glass lifts designed by Olson Kundig for Seattle's Space Needle. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features double-decker elevators for Seattle's Space Needle
As part of the ongoing renovations to the Space Needle in Seattle, American architecture studio Olson Kundig and engineering firm Otis Elevators have collaborated on all-glass, double-decker elevators on the tower's exposed core. More about Olson Kundig designs double-decker elevators at the Seattle Space Needle
US architecture studio Grzywinski + Pons has completed a 31-storey residential building in downtown Seattle that features a light olive-coloured facade and glazed boxes that pop out from the tower's edges. More about Boxy "sky lounges" protrude from Seattle skyscraper by Grzywinski + Pons
Local studio SHED Architecture & Design has renovated a 1920s building into a compact two-level home with a black exterior and interior references to its history in Seattle. More about SHED Architecture & Design renovates home for Seattle restaurateur
A retired mother enlisted the help of her daughter, a principal at Best Practice Architecture, to convert a neglected home into a wooden shingle-clad "multigenerational home base" with a basement level that can serve as its own apartment. More about Best Practice Architecture adds scalloped shingles to renovated 1950s house in Seattle
Architectural studio GO'C has converted a 1970s houseboat into a contemporary, multi-level residence called Blatto Boat, which features a variety of space-saving strategies and three outdoor decks. More about GO'C designs Seattle houseboat as a study in "tiny living"
Local studio SHED Architecture & Design has created a house clad in vertical wood siding and a sloped roof in in Seattle, Washington that evokes the steep peaks of Swiss mountains. More about SHED creates wood-clad house with "jagged peak" in Seattle
US studio SHED Architecture and Design has converted a former information centre into a colourful children's play space for a preschool at Seattle's Pike Place Market. More about SHED creates indoor-outdoor play space in downtown Seattle
Architecture studio LMN Architects and landscape studio Field Operations have opened a wood-clad aquarium extension topped with a public park that acts as a bridge between the city and Seattle's waterfront. More about LMN Architects and Field Operations open aquarium extension and park in Seattle
Heavy timber, wood and brick are among the materials used by US studio Heliotrope to create an extension to a historic 1930s home that was originally built by a Norwegian ship captain. More about Heliotrope uses "warm and subdued" materials for Seattle house extension
A mezzanine and rooftop lounge are among the enhancements by Robert Hutchison Architecture to a former warehouse that has been reborn as a multipurpose venue called Stone Way Auto. More about Robert Hutchison Architecture converts 1950s Seattle building into event space
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a stone home in Scotland by local practice Izat Arundell. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features a "wonderful little retreat from the world"
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a residential block in downtown Seattle by Hewitt. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features "another glass mirrored angular box"
Local architecture studio Hewitt has unveiled the 33-storey-high Skyglass residential block in downtown Seattle, which was informed by an offset stack of magazines. More about Hewitt creates residential tower in Seattle informed by stack of magazines
US studio The Miller Hull Partnership has completed the Health Sciences Education Building in Seattle, which features corrugated metal cladding and a warm interior that departs from the "hospital-like environments found in most university medical buildings". More about Textural metal skin wraps University of Washington building by Miller Hull
Salvaged wood and colourful murals by local artists are among the decorative features in the NBBJ-designed Odessa Brown Children's Clinic, which combines medical services with public amenities like a basketball court and community kitchen. More about NBBJ creates pediatric clinic in Seattle with "no blank walls"
Local studio LMN Architects has completed a convention centre in downtown Seattle with a six-storey central atrium and large wooden staircase. More about LMN Architects creates six-storey convention centre in downtown Seattle
Local studio Best Practice Architecture has used punchy colours, glass bricks and dichroic glass inside an optometry store in Seattle's Leschi neighbourhood. More about Glass blocks divide Eye Eye optical store by Best Practice Architecture
Local studio GO'C drew on the aesthetics of a 1930s gas station to create Mini Mart City Park, a community arts centre in Seattle that aims to show the potential of remediated brownsites. More about GO'C places arts centre on former Seattle gas station site to "heal an urban problem"
American startup Recompose has opened a funeral home in Seattle designed by architecture firm Olson Kundig, where human remains are composted and turned into a nutrient-rich soil that can nurture new plant life. More about Recompose human composting facility "transforms your loved one's body into soil"