**606 106th Avenue NE**

**Bellevue, WA // The Onni Group**
LOCI is once again teaming up with Onni Group and IBI on this large-scale multi-use development project, featuring an office tower, two residential high-rises, a hotel, daycare and retail frontages. The highly diversified public realm is comprised of an assortment of public plazas at various levels, streetscapes along a busy 106th Ave NE, a major public open space plaza that is destined to become City’s social heart, and a pedestrian corridor that will become part of a long term, city-wide “Grand Connection” linear greenway that aims to enhance the historic narratives of Bellevue’s past, linking multiple public spaces together.

01 // Urban Design

The shear scope and size of this project from an urban design perspective has necessitated intense studies of form and function, at various scales, between architecture, landscape architecture, city engineers, and planners. Designing and programming for a site this large, to be stitched into the fabric of the larger “open space quilt” of Bellevue, has been a massive undertaking, and a highly rewarding process to be a part of.

02 // Visualize

This project, perhaps more than any other project we’ve worked on in the last few years, has benefitted greatly from 3D modelling and fly-through animations to help communicate design ideas and experiences for our Client, city staff, and the general public.

03 // Bellevue ‘Grand Connection’

A big challenge for this project is the City-led mandate that it become part of a larger pedestrian corridor and linear park known as the “Grand Connection”, a series of linked public spaces that will connect downtown Bellevue with the waterfront. LOCI has worked closely with the architect of the “Grand Connection” plan, Balmori, to ensure the high level design considerations of the overall master plan find their way into our design at the site scale.