Market Square Apartments - Tacoma, WA
This eight story mixed-use apartment building features 176 units, multiple common rooms with kitchens, meeting rooms, gym, ample bike storage, roof deck, and ground floor commercial spaces with on-site parking. Three lower levels clad in metal siding ground the building and provide a street-level scale for pedestrians, while the lighter coloring and cantilevering of upper levels let them float overhead. The center of the building has been carved through to provide a sheltered commercial plaza at street level that is connected visually and by stair to a protected courtyard above for residents. Located adjacent to the UW Tacoma campus and the Tacoma Convention Center, these apartments will be ideal for students or urban residents looking to be close to the heart of the city.