Rooftop pool at Aurelia
Rooftop pool at Aurelia

01 — The idea

Built to be inherited

01 — The idea

Built to be inherited

A tower that gets quieter as it rises.

A tower that gets quieter as it rises.

Shops and gardens at the ground, the club above them, homes above that — the building sorts its own noise, so the higher you live, the stiller it gets.

40

Storeys

214

Residences

2.1

Acres of garden

128 m

To the roof

The tower, alone

02 — The silhouette

Halvorsen & Park, architects

02 — The silhouette

Halvorsen & Park, architects

Three setbacks, one silhouette.

Three setbacks, one silhouette.

The tower steps back at the club floor, the twenty-eighth and the penthouses — each setback makes a terrace below and a slimmer floor above.

Looking up the facade

“We wanted a tower that ends three times before it ends — the skyline gets a pause, and two hundred homes get a terrace.”

Mette Halvorsen

Founding partner, Halvorsen & Park

Height

128 m · 40 storeys

Structure

Post-tensioned concrete

Facade

Triple-glazed, self-shading

Setbacks

Floors 3, 28 and 38

03 — The materials

Five, no more

03 — The materials

Five, no more

A short palette, used everywhere.

A short palette, used everywhere.

Five materials run from the lobby to the fortieth floor — chosen to wear in, not wear out, and repeated until the building feels inevitable.

01

Roman travertine

02

Fumed oak

03

Brushed bronze

04

Lime plaster

05

Basalt

Material, in place

01

Roman travertine

The stone the building is remembered by — lobby walls, lift lobbies and the pool deck, cut from one quarry so every floor matches.

Used

Lobby, lift lobbies, pool deck

Finish

Honed, unfilled

Source

Tivoli, Italy

01

Roman travertine

02

Fumed oak

03

Brushed bronze

04

Lime plaster

05

Basalt

Material, in place

01

Roman travertine

The stone the building is remembered by — lobby walls, lift lobbies and the pool deck, cut from one quarry so every floor matches.

Used

Lobby, lift lobbies, pool deck

Finish

Honed, unfilled

Source

Tivoli, Italy

04 — Who made it

Four practices, one table

04 — Who made it

Four practices, one table

Who made it.

Halvorsen & Park — work

Halvorsen & Park

Architecture

Copenhagen and Seattle. Towers in four countries; this is their tallest.

Studio Vane — work

Studio Vane

Interiors

The residences, club and gallery — and the three furnishing schemes.

Land & Linden — work

Land & Linden

Landscape

The 2.1 acres of ground, the podium terrace and the orchard walk.

Corven — work

Corven Engineers

Structure

The post-tensioned frame and the wind engineering that keeps floor 40 still.

Halvorsen & Park — work

Halvorsen & Park

Architecture

Copenhagen and Seattle. Towers in four countries; this is their tallest.

Studio Vane — work

Studio Vane

Interiors

The residences, club and gallery — and the three furnishing schemes.

Land & Linden — work

Land & Linden

Landscape

The 2.1 acres of ground, the podium terrace and the orchard walk.

Corven — work

Corven Engineers

Structure

The post-tensioned frame and the wind engineering that keeps floor 40 still.

05 — The build

Photographed monthly

05 — The build

Photographed monthly

Rising, floor by floor.

Rising, floor by floor.

The core is past halfway. Buyers get the site camera and a monthly letter from the project director — the same one the bank gets.

The site, this month

26

of 40 floors formed

Groundworks and basement

Complete, 2024

Core and frame

Underway — floor 26

Structure tops out

Late 2026

Facade and fit-out

2027

Keys

2028

06 — Running costs

Engineered down

06 — Running costs

Engineered down

Cheaper to run than to build.

Cheaper to run than to build.

A tower is bought once and run for a century — the service charge is designed as carefully as the lobby.

Heating demand vs. code

−68%

Grey water recycled

61%

Lighting on daylight sensing

100%

Facade sound attenuation

44 dB

Measured against the 2024 Seattle energy code baseline for residential towers.

What that means monthly

$1.40

/ft² /month

Projected service charge, fixed to 2030 — heating, cooling, the club floor, the gardens and the staff below, all in.

Comparable towers

$1.95 — $2.60

Ground rent

None

07 — The service

Day one, fully staffed

07 — The service

Day one, fully staffed

Staffed like a small hotel.

Staffed like a small hotel.

Twenty-one people work in the building — hired and trained a year before opening, run by a house manager who lives ten minutes away.

4

Concierges

5

Housekeeping

2

Engineers, resident

6

Club & pool staff

3

Gardeners

1

House manager

08 — In print

Their words, not ours

08 — In print

Their words, not ours

What others have said.

2026

“The rare tall building that seems to have been designed from the inside out.”

Architectural Record

2025

“Green Lake’s skyline gets its first genuinely good argument for height.”

The Seattle Times

2025

“A materials lesson: five finishes, endlessly repeated, never boring.”

Dezeen

2024

“The most convincing case yet that a tower can be a good neighbour.”

Monocle

Come and see the model in person.

The 1:100 model, the material table and the show residence — all at the sales gallery.

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