When it comes to new housing, Seattle is not beating the function-over-form allegations. Here, as in many other major US cities faced with a housing crisis, the admirable goal of creating more places to live has led to some ironically lifeless buildings.
Some of the blame lies with the city’s stifling design review process, and some with developers’ more-or-less inevitable desire to scale up while keeping construction costs down. Whatever the reason for our little boxes made of ticky-tacky, a townhome in Ballard and a five-over-one in Capitol Hill kind of look just the same.
And that’s exactly what makes this Orange Place townhome, part
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