7 September 2002
Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce

Watertown - Project of the Week

By Journal Staff

The $11 million Watertown hotel opened in May in the University District, offering unique amenities in a stylized environment. Its address is 4242 Roosevelt Ave. N.E.

The 89,500-square-foot building includes 100 guest rooms, no two of which are alike. The rooms, which the hotel calls studios, range from 325 to 545 square feet.

Amenities can be delivered to the rooms on movable theme carts, including an office cart, party cart, literary cart and a "surfing" cart for Internet users.

The studios feature bamboo floors, custom art and cherry-finished woodwork. The bathrooms sport porthole windows.

Other features of the metal and stucco-clad building include a breakfast cafe, meeting rooms, fitness center and two levels of underground parking. A courtyard on the site links Northeast 43rd Street to Roosevelt Avenue Northeast.

Throughout the hotel, metaphors of water remind the guests they are in Seattle. The front desk in a wave, shrouded in translucent glass. Light fixtures drop from ceiling clouds, leaving raindrop patterns on the carpet below. Stainless-steel downspouts from the roof act as fountains, spouting water to pools of stones.


The project team:

Owner: Malcolm Goodfellow, Seattle

Architect, interiors: Degen & Degen, Seattle

General contractor: W.G. Clark, Seattle

Structural, civil: Coughlin Porter Lundeen, Seattle

Mechanical: The Rice Group, Lynnwood

Electrical: Hargis Engineering, Seattle

Landscape: Allworth Nussbaum, Seattle