Just West of Seattle City Hall is the proposed Civic Square project that’ll encompass an entire city block between 3rd and 4th Avenues and Cherry and James Streets.
Civic Square will feature an open plaza with an amphitheater, water features, retail space, a Metro/Light Rail station and a 40-story office & residential tower. The curved lower 22-levels will house office space and the upper 17-levels will be condominium homes. From the latest renderings, the design reminds me a little of Smith Tower with a skinny tower atop of a wider base.
Civic Square Plaza
The project is aiming for LEED Platinum certification and will incorporate sustainable features such as using a concrete subterranean garage as a big heat sink that could serve as a radiator for the entire building, photovoltaics cells, graywater filtration and harvesting rainwater for irrigation and to generate electricity via microturbines.
