“Alaska Airlines is spending $50 million over the next few years to refresh and expand its lounges, including new ones in New York and San Francisco. The airline also just opened a third lounge in Seattle’s airport, its biggest yet, in response to the growth in that airport’s traffic — to 50 million passengers in 2018 from 30 million in 2010.”
Source: New York Times
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Read More“…the design includes a series of space limitations, such as varying heights of ceilings, scale, dramatic elevation changes and complicated shapes. Deep Dive is aesthetically inspired by the old clandestine bars of 1920, with a sophisticated atmosphere with a rich range of materials and objects.”
Source: Metalocus
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Read More“The projects by Seattle-based Graham Baba are Deep Dive, a bar in the Amazon Spheres; Dockside Cannabis, a cannabis product retailer; and Trailbend Taproom, a bar/restaurant. Trailbend was also recognized with an innovation/materiality award. It was noted for creative use of concrete, wood, steel and Richlite, a Tacoma-based paper product.”
Source: Daily Journal of Commerce
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Read More“I love seeing our associates who have been with us since we were founded flourishing and developing into great architects. Several have created amazing bodies of work. Our office offers great opportunities for design authorship to those that share our values. These folks will go on to do great things.”
Source: Portrait Magazine
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Read More“The collaborative efforts of homeowner, interior designer and architect were, in this instance, truly harmonious with the end results as sophisticated and elegant as the vision that first inspired them all.”
Source: Portrait Magazine
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Read More“The restaurant space is designed to capture the Tutta Bella experience in a smaller footprint while honoring 300 years of Neapolitan tradition. To that notion, it will blend modern space with a traditional Italian wood-fired pizza oven on full display.”
Source: Daily Journal of Commerce
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Read More"It's a dark, relic-like space that's tinged with a sense of Victorian magic and mysticism."
Source: CLAD Global
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Read More“When you descend, you enter into this dark relic that’s tinged with a sense of Victorian magic and mysticism,” says lead architect Jim Graham. “It’s a small place with complex geometry. It was like fitting out a boat.”
Source: Hospitality Design
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Read More“Deep Dive takes its aesthetic inspiration from the worlds of Charles Darwin and Jules Verne, capturing the human spirit of curiosity and imagination. Accessed via a nondescript entryway tucked discretely between the two Amazon Spheres, the bar unfolds as a journey.“
Source: Pendulum Magazine
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Read More“Riffing on the idea of shifting uses and planes, the design takes its visual cue from a sliding tile puzzle, also known as a klotski, where the object is to rearrange tiles to solve the puzzle.”
Source: Dezeen
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Read More“Graham Baba Architects took cues from speakeasies and adventure novels to create a dimly lit bar in Seattle filled with oddities and nature-inspired decor, such as dried plants and taxidermy.”
Source: Dezeen
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“Chophouse Row is the last piece of developer Liz Dunn’s 15-year master plan to encourage small-scale “incremental urbanism” in Seattle’s Pike/Pine neighborhood. It features a mix of new and old: retail, restaurant, offices, and housing, all in the same building as well as the greater block.”
Source: The American Institute of Architects
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Read More“We didn’t want it to devalue the spheres by competing with them,” says Jim Graham, Partner and Co-Founder at Graham Baba Architects. “The spheres are a charged space. They’re light and lifting, while Deep Dive is more introspective and calming.”
Source: Seattle Eater
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Read More“Around the corner and down a few stairs is Deep Dive, a place that Eater dubbed the “most dramatic bar” in Seattle. It’s a fair assessment, given the low lights, high velvet banquettes, and pages of cocktail offerings including the Rich & Famous, which includes white truffle.”
Source: Vogue
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Read More“Erickson worked with a team of people to bring Deep Dive to life, including Curtis Steiner, the Ballard gallery owner and art curator, who was commissioned to fill the beautiful space designed by Graham Baba Architects. Amazon’s main request for the space was that it be a speakeasy, one that would be open to the public and have its own entrance.”
Source: Seattle Magazine
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Read More“Located in the downtown Seattle neighborhood of Belltown, Block 41 celebrates the legacy of an historic warehouse while transforming it into a contemporary, multipurpose event space.”
Source: AIA Northwest and Pacific Region
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Read More“When renowned chef Renee Erickson’s Deep Dive opened beneath the Amazon Spheres in August, it immediately became Seattle’s most dramatic bar. Designed by prolific Graham Baba Architects, whose striking work also includes the likes of Mezcaleria Oaxaca and Chophouse Row on Capitol Hill, Deep Dive’s moody atmosphere stands in stark contrast to the bright, naturally lit greenhouses above.”
Source: Seattle Eater
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Read More“The concept for Cloud Room posits that “the best office might not be an office at all.” Cloud Room provides a shared working environment and private member’s club enriched by the people who occupy it.”
Source: Officelovin’
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Read More“Earlier this year, Amazon’s Spheres opened in downtown Seattle, and now local chef Renee Erickson has added a place to imbibe within, adding wood paneling, boho-chic furnishings, and tchotchkes tucked into built-ins.”
Source: Architectural Digest
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Read More“Graham Baba Architects, responsible for such showstoppers as Renee Erickson’s dramatic Deep Dive bar in the Amazon Spheres down the street, designed the space. Striking light fixtures accent the airy, light-filled space, which is divided into two seating areas: one with communal tables and the other a large section of bar seating. There’s also a patio for warmer-weather dining.”
Source: Seattle Eater
Image: Suzi Pratt
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