Charles Smith Wines Jet City Seattle Building, Georgetown Winemaker, Washington
Charles Smith Wines Jet City Seattle
New Architecture in Georgetown, Washington, USA ? design by Olson Kundig Architects
May 12, 2017
Charles Smith Wines Jet City Seattle Building
Design: Olson Kundig, Architects
Location: 1136 S Albro Pl, Seattle, WA 98108, USA
Charles Smith Wines Jet City Seattle Building
Originally constructed to house a Dr. Pepper bottling plant and later a recycling center, the design of the new Charles Smith Wines Jet City preserves much of the building?s hard-won industrial patina.

The design team was inspired by winemaker Charles Smith?s in-your-face attitude to create a raw space that highlights the original aesthetics of the building and surrounding Georgetown neighborhood. The transformation of this 1960s-era building involved replacing a portion of the exterior street-side façade with a span of 19-foot-by-60-foot windows, opening the building to the neighborhood and views of Mount Rainier ? and plane after plane alighting on the tarmac at King County International Airport.
Nearly seven-foot-tall letters wrap the top of the building in billboard fashion, announcing ?Charles Smith Wines Jet City.?

The 32,000-square foot building is composed of two structures, a two-story building and a contiguous open-structure steel truss warehouse. Together, they provide space for everything from grape crush, barrel storage and bottling to tasting rooms and sales space.
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