Grant Building: Let it breathe, baby...

If you've wandered by Post and Riverside lately, it's no secret that SRM and Dunn & Black's overhaul of the three-story Grant Building is well underway.  The fences are up, the facade is down, and the renderings dropped in our inbox give us tremendous hope for design downtown.  The architects at Nystrom-Olson-Collins have taken what was a looming windowless void and opened it way, way up.  Add in some muted colors, plenty of glass on the street (our fav) more up above, and this building is (finally) giving something back to this street corner.

More renderings below...

Comments

[MK]

Love it!

[dan/Spokane]

What will go on the street level? Hopefully some retail space?
Looks good!

[Silent Bahb]

I like this design too.

I love to see any building downtown that avoids the vertical lines and large sterile planes of many recent constructions/reconstructions downtown (look at the new Davenport tower for an example).

[Rachel]

they took this down quick. I just drove down there yesterday and I was amazed that they had it all torn up already.

[Alberto]

i remember seeing a different rendering of this building not too long ago on this blog, it was way cooler looking and very different from the other buildings in the city. this isn't bad, but it was as daring as the first rendering I saw.

[J]

So it looks like Banner Bank will be taking space in the building (based on their logos in the render). If so, I wonder if their will be any retail in addition on the main floor.

[benJAMMIN]

Check it out.

http://www.spokanejournal.com/index.php?id=article&sub=3339&keyword=Grant%20Building

[El Corte]

They just destroyed the last vestige of modern architecture in downtown Spokane- but at least it will be occupied by something other than a display of oversized charity bears.