Nestled within vineyards and wheat fields in Walla Walla’s Southside district, Everen Wines’ new tasting room is conceived as a quiet retreat in which to taste and experience the culture of wine and hospitality of the region.
Project name
Everen Wines Tasting Room
Architecture firm
Wittman Estes
Location
Walla Walla, Washington, USA
Design team
Matt Wittman, Jody Estes, Angela Yang
Collaborators
Structural Engineer: J Welch Engineering; Builder: Mountain States Construction; Civil Engineer: PBS Engineering; Mechanical Engineer: Routh Consulting Engineers
Visualization
Wittman Estes
Client
Matthew Aksel, Hope Trumbull
Typology
Hospitality Architecture
Rapidly escalating construction costs in Seattle have resulted in high volume, low quality market rate housing. 2018 construction costs in Seattle were among the highest in the world, averaging $280/SF, and the high cost of construction has led to a proliferation of housing severely lacking in character, transforming Seattle into neighborhoods of...
Project name
Tsuga Townhomes
Architecture firm
Wittman Estes Architecture+Landscape
Location
Seattle, Washington, USA
Photography
Miranda Estes
Design team
Matt Wittman AIA LEED AP, Jody Estes, Naomi Javanifard, Ashton Wesely, Jen Sutherland, Faith Swickard, Julia Frost
Structural engineer
Joshua Welch Engineering
Construction
Witttman Estes
Typology
Residential › Housing
Multi-Family Housing that Engages the Neighborhood The Othello Gardens’ neighborhood in Seattle is in the middle of a transformation from singlefamily to a denser, multi-family mid-rise neighborhood. The rapid change has created an acute need for quality middle-income housing. The neighborhood has always been socially, and economically diverse but...
Project name
Othello Gardens
Architecture firm
Wittman Estes
Location
Seattle, Washington, USA
Photography
Miranda Estes
Design team
Matt Wittman, AIA LEED AP. Jody Estes. Ashton Wesely, AIA LEED AP
Interior design
Wittman Estes
Civil engineer
Taylor Engineering Consultants
Structural engineer
J Welch Engineering LLC
Construction
Ted Pederson
Material
Brick, Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Residential › Housing
The new 6,100-square-foot Highland Park Improvement Club (HPIC) Celebration Center will provide a welcoming social focal point for community activities, and for building community connections and resilience. HPIC will offer residents a renewed sense of civic identity, reinforced by ties to history and the broader urban context.
Project name
Highland Park Improvement Club - Celebration Center
Architecture firm
Wittman Estes
Location
Seattle, Washington, USA
Design team
Matt Wittman AIA LEED AP. Jody Estes. Heather Crain AIA. Nikki Sugihara. Brandon Patterson
Collaborators
Frank Company (Structural Engineer)
Visualization
Wittman Estes
Client
Highland Park Improvement Club
Typology
Cultural Architecture
A Retreat that Speaks in Stillness on Whidbey Island, Washington. Floating above a meadow, Whidbey Uparati seeks to minimize visual and physical impact on the natural landscape by blending into the site rather than asserting itself upon it. Upon approach, the meadow vegetation and flowering trees surround a winding path up a steady slope to the hou...
Project name
Whidbey Uparati
Architecture firm
Wittman Estes
Location
Whidbey Island, Washington, USA
Principal architect
Matt Wittman, Jody Estes
Design team
Matt Wittman, Jody Estes, Nikki Sugihara
Collaborators
Builder: JADE Craftsman Builders LLC. Structural Engineer: J Welch Engineer
Visualization
Wittman Estes
Typology
Residential › House
Designed by Seattle-based architecture firm Wittman Estes, the project involved the complete remodeling of an apartment in an early 1960s-era condominium building (the apartment building was designed by John Graham, the architect for the Seattle Space Needle).
Project name
Lakeside West Apartment
Architecture firm
Wittman Estes
Location
Seattle, Washington, USA
Interior design
Wittman Estes
Environmental & MEP engineering
Construction
Sparrow Woodworks
Typology
Residential › Apartment
Aldo Beach House transforms a 1940s beach house into a new multi-generational home—doubling the livable area while lightly touching the delicate ecology of the waterfront. Two shifting wings hover over the hillside and beach supported by thin steel columns and pin piles.
Project name
Aldo Beach House
Architecture firm
Wittman Estes
Location
Hood Canal, WA, USA
Design team
Matt Wittman AIA LEED AP, Jody Estes, Ashton Wesley
Structural engineer
J Welch Engineering LLC
Construction
Jack Colgrove Construction
Typology
Residential › House
Designed by Seattle-based architecture firm Wittman Estes, the Yo-Ju Courtyard House is located in Clyde Hill, Washington (a suburb of Seattle). Through a series of thresholds from opaque to transparent, Yo-Ju Courtyard House, which means “secluded living” in Mandarin Chinese, embraces the future of suburban density by establishing a private experi...
Project name
Yo-Ju Courtyard House
Architecture firm
Wittman Estes
Location
Clyde Hill, Washington, USA
Principal architect
Matt Wittman
Design team
Matt Wittman AIA LEED AP, Jody Estes, Ashton Wesely
Interior design
Henrybuilt (Kitchen)
Structural engineer
Malsam Tsang Structural Engineering
Construction
DME Construction Inc.
Material
Wood, Concrete, Glass, Steel, Stone
Typology
Residential › House
