PLACE architects is an award winning Seattle architecture/ interiors/ urban design firm dedicated to shaping environments that celebrate and nurture the way people work, play and live in them. Collaborators by nature, we work side by side with our clients to develop ideas and dreams into new built places. We are convinced that the best projects come from a respectful sharing of talent and vision, drawing on the diverse perspectives of every member of the team.

Our expertise spans a wide range of project types from adventurous modern housing to public recreation, arts and cultural centers, and neighborhood retail, cafes and clubs. Commercial projects, office buildings, and technical work such as healthcare and technology projects make up the balance of our work. The focus is always on weaving community, enhancing constructed and natural ecology with every project.

We have a deep interest in the urban realm, recognizing the critical relationships between interior and exterior; building, city, and region. Every new building creates new outdoor space. Those spaces are essential components of our built environment, and our built environment is, in turn, part of the ecology of the region in which it exists.

As we become increasingly aware of the impact that human activity has on our planet, PLACE has redoubled our efforts to immediately and definitively become a part of the solution. Nothing less than the survival of our way of life here depends on this commitment. We have ever more tools and choices available to us that allow us to make the built environment a positive force in the ecology of our world as well as in users’ day to day lives. PLACE architects is committed to advancing the cause of healthy community; integrating our work with the living systems of our urban and rural contexts, and respecting the impacts and connections between our built environment and the natural world.

Place making is a dynamic process that occurs when energy is invested in a space. People can work together to make new places, or it can happen over time organically. However it happens, spirited places have meaning and character. Our goal as architects is to make good places, and have peoples' lives be better for experiencing them.