At 1,200 feet, 888 Second Avenue will become the center of Seattle’s rapidly growing downtown, providing the city’s well-connected core with the residential and hospitality elements it now lacks. This tapering tower’s multiple uses, including retail, office, hotel and residential, make it both flexibile and economically viable. Spiraling, day-lit community atria interconnect the office plates at the building’s base; and the tower’s operable timber-framed curtain wall and residential units with multiple glass exposures draw the outdoors and spectacular views of the Cascade and Olympic Mountains into this vertical urban community.