First Light by Westbank in Seattle WA | Livabl (2024)

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Building Type:Condo

Ownership:Condominium

Selling Status:Selling

Construction Status:Construction

Estimated Completion:Fall/Winter 2023

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Package Service

24/7 Concierge

Residents' Salon

Secret Garden

Screening Lounge

Residential Gallery

Wellness Center

Lobby

Sky Pool

Bike Clubhouse

Pet Services

The residential interiors at First Light echo the three core themes of industrial materiality, elevation of craft and purity of design that are expressed throughout the project. The corridors and public spaces of the building are kept simple and pure; with recessed cove lighting along the halls, minimally expressed door frames and fine-grain minimal details, even in such touch- es as the suite numeral fonts and door finishings. Inside each residential home, a cool, natural palette extends throughout with subtle yet starkly contrasting design details. Residents will be able to choose one of two offerings. The first features raw architectural concrete columns, white oak floors, matte white cabinetry and millwork with black inserts. The second features a matte black lacquered kitchen with white inserts. JKMCA collaborated heavily with a custom kitchen manufacturer from Italy, sourced by leading furniture maker B&B Italia, to achieve a design that reflects the beautiful aesthetic of the homes. The primary washrooms, with integrated Kohler custom plumbing fixtures, will feature terrazzo tile, with the vanity countertop and tub surround in honed Super White quartzite, a frameless glass shower enclosure, luminous-mirror medicine cabinets, matte black hardware and bath accessories (with gold and fluted glass in the penthouse units). Every detail in the residences will express an elevated and sophisticated minimalism; over-height door frames cradle glass partitions and custom matte black finishes and lighting will define these spaces as not only homes but total works of art.

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As any painter knows, having the right palette prepared is half the work of art. When Westbank and the interior designers at James KM Cheng architects began the design process for First Light, they started off by asking a series of questions. What is the nature of light here, and which colors are most inspiring under them? How could the textures and details within a new tower build on connections to Seattle’s strong maritime and aviation heritage? How could the finishes and furnishings of the building’s interiors express the sentiment that this is a design for Seattle, and nowhere else?

Some of the answers to these questions came together quickly. As a city mainly built in the twentieth century, concrete has long been the construction material of choice for such beloved institutions as the Pike Place Market, high-rise towers, college and university buildings, and the infrastructure of airports and overpasses. The design team decided that concrete building elements should be celebrated, shown with pride in public lobbies, even within private spaces of suites. Moreover, when concrete appears, it should be uncovered and unvarnished – direct and simple. Coupled with the exposed concrete, a rough aggregate warm-toned terrazzo is used as a highlight on some balconies and garden decks, including the lobbies.

The Ship Canal has always been one of Seattle’s most vital spaces, ringed by machine-shops, boat-makers and foundries. The direct and powerful shapes produced by the industrial legacy of areas such as Ballard has inspired the Seattle architecture of Tom Kundig and Steve Badanes, which the design team studied. Seattle’s current astonishing success as a place of corporate creation and innovation arises directly out of these heritages of craft in concrete and metal, so a contemporary look was needed, but one just over the horizon of contemporary taste. In setting a range of colors, James Cheng reminded his team of his mentor Arthur Erickson’s philosophy for buildings in the northwest – that a range of greys, with tiny highlights of color and the framing of nature, would evoke every color in the rainbow under the grey vault of rainy days. Hot colors work in the southwest, and quiet pastels are right for the Midwest, primary colors excel on the bare shores of the arctic and Canadian Maritimes, but a range of greys seems inevitable here, west of the Cascades.

Source: First Light

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