On Seattle’s First Hill, across from the Frye Art Museum, Perkins&Will has designed a pair of 33-story residential towers for Westbank. The twin structures, known as Museum House, lean slightly away from one another as a result of incremental stepping at each floor. The offset produces a tapered void between them that frames a slice of sky and culminates in a glazed skybridge linking the uppermost levels. The complex, opened earlier this year, was designed to establish a dialogue with the Frye through its facade. Sliding aluminum screens wrap both towers, with perforations derived from artworks in the Frye’s collection. As the panels shift across the windows, the images align or break apart, creating different patterns throughout the day.
