Join tours of projects and neighborhoods to supplement the learning experience.

TA Tour: Seattle Public Library Branches Tour
Visit the Ballard, Beacon Hill, Capitol Hill and North East Branch Libraries, all built or expanded under the "Libraries for All" bond measure to upgrade the Seattle Public Library.
BALLARD LIBRARY
The building was designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson with a "green roof" planted with more than 18,000 low-water-use plants, sweeping to the north to bathe the interior with indirect light; a lower roof section provides an intimate scale for reading along the north wall.
BEACON HILL LIBRARY
Designed by Carlson Architects, the Beacon Hill Library uses sweeping roof forms, which allow natural light to flood the building, to provide a visual landmark and establish a focal point for the community.
CAPITOL HILL LIBRARY
The Capitol Hill Library, a collaboration by Johnston Architects and Cutler Anderson Architects, focuses on environmental sensitivity given physical form by wrapping the building in a "vertical garden," extending inside the building as well as out. NORTH EAST LIBRARY
The Miller|Hull Partnership designed the expansion of the North East Branch, preserving the pavilion-like feel of the original building by maintaining the roof peak and avoiding the installation of ductwork along the ceiling. The building is naturally ventilated with mechanically controlled windows and recycled material was used wherever possible.
-David Kunselman AIA, Seattle Public Library
Shuttle departs WSCTC lobby 7:45am.
(4 LUs / 4 HSW)

TC Tour: Seattle City Hall Tour
The tour will focus on the project's sustainable design strategies and elements. These include building orientation and design as well as the rainwater harvest system, garden roof, and under-floor displacement ventilation.
- Greg Hepp AIA, Bassetti Architects
Tour to meet in City Hall 5th Avenue lobby 1pm
(2 LUs / 2 HSW)

TD Tour: Concrete, Glass, Steel and Egos - Skyscrapers
Seattle Architecture Foundation leads a discovery of how local skyscrapers were designed, developed and built. Experience how they work, react and even breathe, and find out how the local public, national economics, international philosophies influenced the design, tour ends with a breathtaking view of Seattle and beyond from observation deck of the Bank of America Tower.
Note: this tour wheelchair accessible
(2 LUs / 2 HSW)

FB Tour: Seattle Central Library
Sam Miller AIA, LMN Architects, will lead attendees on a tour of the 362,987sf library, and explain the unique features of the facility that houses 1.4 million books and accommodates a functional, user-friendly program of comprehensive services and informal spaces.
- Sam Miller AIA, LMN Architects
Tour to meet in the Registration Area 10am
(2 LUs)

FC Tour: US Federal Courthouse Tour & GSA Design Excellence Program
The GSA Design Excellence Program includes a two-step architect/engineer selection process and the use of private sector peers to provide feedback to the architect/engineer of record, in order to achieve top quality design. The new United States Federal Courthouse was built under this program, and replaces the Courthouse on Fifth Avenue built more than a half century ago and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The new building contains many interesting design features including a one acre landscaped public plaza running the full length of the Seventh Avenue side and a lobby containing a 15 by 60-foot long reflecting pool, which separates secure and non-secure areas.
-Steve Lewis AIA, United States General Services Administration
(2 LUs / 2 HSW)

FD Tour: International District
Seattle's Chinatown-International District has long served as the cultural hub for Asian Americans in the area. This walking tour will highlight historic and recent projects in one of Seattle's oldest neighborhoods, home to many culturally significant buildings, parks, and other features.
-Clarence Kwan AIA, MulvannyG2
-Steve Arai AIA, Arai Jackson Ellison Murakami LLP
Tour to meet in the Registration Area 3pm
(2 LUs)

SATour1: 9 am - Noon: To Live, Work and Play in Downtown Seattle - Belltown
Seattle Architecture Foundation leads a tour of Belltown, which has become one of Seattle's most energetic and eclectic neighborhoods. Nightclubs, restaurants and high-rise condos now mix with historic buildings and lovingly maintained community spaces such as the neighborhood gardens. Learn how upcoming projects such as the Viaduct replacement, the Monorail and the Olympic Sculpture Park will continue to supply the momentum for Belltown's ongoing transformation.
Tour to meet in the Registration Area 8:30am
(4 LUs)

SATour2: Where Form and Function Elope - Art + Architecture
Seattle Architecture Foundation leads us through downtown Seattle to see the results of one of the nation's oldest and most successful public art programs. From small and intimate to large and elaborate, we'll visit a wide array of projects around the city and we'll discuss how Seattle's revolutionary 1% For Art program, as well as various private collections, have helped weave art and architecture into the fabric of our everyday lives. Note: this tour is wheelchair accessible.
- Mary Kae McCullough
Tour to meet in the Registration Area 8am
(2 LUs)

SB Tour1: The Spaces Between the Places - Parks, Plazas and Gardens
Seattle Architecture Foundation leads the tour of the often-overlooked elements of our city, those spaces that sometimes tell a different story of life and living in Seattle. From wide-open parks to tucked away plazas to gardens you never knew existed, you'll discover the impact of landscape architecture, explore natural barriers as opportunities, and gain a better understanding of those regional planning issues.
Tour to meet in the Registration Area 9:30am
(2 LUs)

SB Tour2: More Than Just a Pretty Fa�ade - Ornamentation
Seattle Architecture Foundation exposes the hidden life of buildings as we explore structures of all shapes and sizes and how they express themselves through whimsical animal forms, geometric designs, intricate adornments and elaborate embellishments. From individual bus stations to seldom-noticed surface street details, find out why it has always been important for architecture to embrace the fashionable as well as the functional.
Tour to meet in the Registration Area at 9:30am
(2 LUs)