Lawrence W. Cheek

September 10, 2015 at 7:00 am

Very vertical Seattle: The city builds up to create more homes downtown | PNW Magazine VIEW

What does the skyscraper express? Along with ambition, importance and money, we can add costly, constricted building space and teeming crowds who want to live...

• Pacific NW Magazine

January 10, 2014 at 12:03 pm

What modern architecture is worth saving in Seattle? VIEW

THERE IS A place smack in the middle of Seattle where mid-20th-century modernism, generally the most reviled and rebarbative period in the history of architecture,...

• Pacific NW Magazine

September 13, 2013 at 12:17 pm

Small-scale solutions to Seattle’s huge urban-housing needs VIEW

BILL PARKS IS hanging out there on an edge with his next housing project, soon to arise in Ballard at 24th Avenue and 65th Street....

• Pacific NW Magazine

May 3, 2013 at 10:00 am

The rewards of small boats VIEW

No mechanical contrivances intervene between the natural forces acting on the boat, and the human mind and muscles at the controls.

• Pacific NW Magazine

January 25, 2013 at 12:00 pm

The Bullitt building follows nature’s lead in elegant efficiency VIEW

If all systems work as planned, the building will draw all its power from sunlight falling on the roof, all its water from rainfall on...

• Pacific NW Magazine

May 1, 2010 at 7:00 pm

A wooden boat’s beauty lies in its reflection of nature VIEW

Whether consciously or not, a wooden-boat builder taps into of nature, relying on its inherent order to guide the builder to a thing of beauty....

• Pacific NW Magazine