Seattle Architecture & Design Summit
Centering People and the Planet: Strategies in Placemaking, Tenant Experience, Carbon Reduction, and Regeneration
Event Ended On: Wednesday November 19 2025
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Speakers and Panels
Designing What’s Next for Urban Living
Strategies in Placemaking, Experience, and Design Innovation Driving Seattle’s Built Environment
Designing for Impact: Seattle’s Path to Sustainability & Regenerative Performance
Navigating Embodied Carbon, Electrification, and Building Codes to Deliver High-Performance Design
What You'll Learn:
What You’ll Learn:
- Gain insights into how Seattle’s leading architects are shaping the city’s next chapter through adaptive reuse, placemaking, and community-centered design strategies.
- Explore how design professionals are transforming underutilized assets — from vacant offices to public spaces — into vibrant, human-focused environments that support evolving urban lifestyles.
- Understand how architecture firms are approaching electrification, regenerative design, and high-performance strategies to meet both regulatory requirements and long-term sustainability goals.
- Stay informed on updates to Seattle’s building codes, energy regulations, and performance standards — and how architects are navigating these shifts in real time.
- Discover how firms are addressing embodied carbon, material transparency, and system electrification to drive measurable environmental impact.
- Learn how collaboration across disciplines — from engineering to development to product manufacturing — is helping design teams deliver innovative and cost-effective solutions.
- Identify the tools, technologies, and mindsets architects are using to design for a more resilient, equitable, and carbon-conscious future.
Who You’ll Meet During Networking: Owners, developers, investors, brokers, city and government officials, business consultants, architects, engineers, lawyers, accountants, and bankers.
Why You Should Attend This Session: Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to help you identify opportunities, build your network, and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business more than we do.
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Venue
Hilton Motif Seattle
1415 5th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
Ballroom Name/Floor: Emerald Ballroom - 3rd Floor
Parking Information:
Hotel - $28 Hilton Motif parking.
Additional Garage Parking Near Hotel
US Bank Centre Garage
1420 5th Ave, Seattle WA 98101
Average Daily Rate: $35
Rainier Square
409 Union St, Seattle, WA 98101
Average Daily Rate: $30
Puget Sound Plaza Garage
315 Union St, Seattle, WA 98101
Average Daily Rate: $23.53
Meridian Garage West
606 Pike St, Seattle, WA 98101
Average Daily Rate: $21.41
Agenda
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8:00 AM 9:00 AM |
Breakfast & Networking
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9:00 AM 9:45 AM |
Designing What’s Next for Urban Living
Strategies in Placemaking, Experience, and Design Innovation Driving Seattle’s Built Environment
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9:45 AM 10:00 AM |
Networking Break
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10:00 AM 10:45 AM |
Designing for Impact: Seattle’s Path to Sustainability & Regenerative Performance
Navigating Embodied Carbon, Electrification, and Building Codes to Deliver High-Performance Design
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10:45 AM 11:15 AM |
Closing Networking
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