Insights
The Future of Retail: Consumer Trends Shaping Design and Experience in 2025 and Beyond
01/31/2025
As part of our mission to help both established and emerging brands navigate the ever-changing retail and customer landscape, Graphite’s Retail and Brand Experience Studio 6B has published its first annual Consumer Insights & Retail Futures Report—an in-depth review of global trends, influences, and emerging shifts shaping the future of brand engagement.
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Amazon Frontier featured in gb&d magazine
01/07/2025
Graphite's Amazon Frontier project was recently featured in gb&d magazine's "12 Outdoor Workplaces We Love" feature.
Awards
West Main wins ENR Northwest Best Project Award
01/02/2025
Graphite's West Main project was recognized by Engineering News-Record with top honors in the Office/Retail/Mixed-Use category in ENR's 2024 Regional Best Projects awards program.
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Amazon Frontier is a Playground for Employees and Neighbors in Seattle
11/17/2024
A profile of Graphite's Amazon Frontier project, including an interview with founding principal Peter Krech, is featured in "Green Building & Design" magazine.
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Graphite-designed Mirra virtual gaming venue featured on GeekWire
10/22/2024
Air hockey, kraken tentacles, and laser rhythm: Inside new virtual-reality entertainment venue Mirra
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Pattern Language: An Exploration of Digital Printing on Architectural Glazing
10/01/2024
Architectural Glazing has long been an important expressive tool which, when selected and detailed thoughtfully can contribute to the successful transformation of architectural concepts to reality. A growing number of glass treatments have expanded aesthetic options in addition to the added performance modern insulated glazing offers.
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Graphite's innovative curtain wall design featured in Construction Specifier Magazine
09/09/2024
The curtain wall design of Graphite's West Main and Amazon Nitro projects were recently profiled in Construction Specifier Magazine.
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Amazon Nitro featured in "Business of Furniture" magazine
07/09/2024
Amazon Nitro featured in "Business of Furniture" magazine
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Graphite Design Group Introduces Brand Experience Ideation Studio
05/14/2024
Award-winning designer Alex Shapleigh joins Graphite to expand the firm’s Retail and Brand Experience capabilities.
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New Office and Retail Development Activates Seattle’s Eastside
05/10/2024
Situated in Bellevue, Seattle's vibrant neighboring city, West Main is reshaping the skyline and symbolizing the city's evolution. The three-tower 1,030,000-square-foot office and retail development designed by Graphite Design Group in collaboration with Compton Design Office for Vulcan Real Estate is attracting some of the world’s largest names in tech and hospitality.
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Sustainable mixed-use districts: Crafting urban communities
04/01/2024
The Denny Regrade neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, shows what a thoughtfully designed mixed-use district can offer for urban life. Graphite's work in the Denny Regrade was recently featured in a profile at Building Design and Construction. Read more about Graphite and our work in the Regrade here.
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Designing a New Frontier in Seattle’s Urban Core
02/20/2024
Completed in March 2021 at the height of the Covid pandemic, three years on Amazon Frontier is now a bustling addition to the Regrade campus and surrounding community. It's innovative office design showcases the uniquely flexible floor and interconnecting “treehouse” stair, a model of adaptive vertical workspace. Read more about this remarkable project here.
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Amazon Office Space Converted Into Supportive Housing for Mary's Place Nonprofit
01/23/2024
Mary's Place Family Center is featured in The Architects Newspaper in recognition of Amazon's gifted space within its Nitro South tower.
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Graphite Sustainability Initiative- Living Building Challenge and Beyond
01/02/2024
Explorative study of sustainable practices and methods to combat climate change and promote carbon reduction in South Lake Union.
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Amazon’s Rooftop Prairie Welcomes Nature into the Heart of Seattle
08/09/2023
Graphite's Amazon's Nitro South project and landscape collaborator Site Workshop is featured in in Seattle Times article. Read the featured story here.
Awards
Mary’s Place Family Center Design Recognized with Award of Excellence by Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
07/31/2023
Graphite’s design for Mary’s Place Family Center – located in Amazon Nitro South at Block 21 - was recently conferred an Award of Excellence in the category of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion by the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
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Graphite Participates in Seattle's Office to Housing Call for Ideas
07/01/2023
Graphite Design Group recently submitted two concepts for the City of Seattle's Office to Housing Call for Ideas program.
On The Boards
Designed to Deliver
01/01/2023
At Graphite, we believe Design is a team sport, and have crafted a process to ensure nobody is left on the sidelines.
Read more about our process here.
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Parque Kirkland named 2022 Multifamily Executive Award Winner
10/04/2022
At the Multifamily Executive Awards ceremony in October 2022, Henbart Development's Parque Kirkland was honored as an outstanding project in the "Garden Style" apartment category.
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Mary's Place Family Shelter at Amazon in the Regrade
06/02/2021
Working in tandem with Mary’s Place, the Amazon Global Real Estate and Facilities team, Seneca Group and GLY construction, the Graphite design team was able to radically re-imagine what a family shelter could be by occupying sections of eight floors in the company’s complex.
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A Sense of Scale
11/24/20
This is the footprint of Alderwood Mall overlaid on Paris, France. We will walk 600 feet through a parking lot to get to the front door of a car-free, walkable shopping experience. In Paris, that 600 feet is an entire block of those very same stores in a walkable safe environment.News/Press
Vulcan explores enrolling office development in Seattle's ultra-green program
11/24/20
By Marc Stiles – Staff Writer, Puget Sound Business Journal Aug 26, 2020, 10:21am EDTVulcan Real Estate is proceeding with plans to build an office tower in South Lake Union, though a company executive said groundbreaking could be several years out.Insights
What is a 'Woonerf' anyway?
11/24/20
Facebook has expanded its Seattle presence again. According to The Seattle Times, this sub-section of the company, with headquarters based in Menlo Park, California, recently moved into a new office building at 1101 Dexter Avenue to house their employees in the epicenter that is South Lake Union.