Created in 2014, Lemons Architecture & Urban Growth is a licensed full-service Seattle architecture studio focused on ecological, inspired, and efficient urban buildings, communities, homes, and urban growth for cities. We love creating architecture and these projects w/ our principals, team, and clients from conception to completion. The city is an evolving organism, and buildings play an increasingly significant role for people’s lives within the urban landscape as cities grow. We care deeply about making every project unique, beautiful, economical, sustainable, and thoughtful. We emphasize a determined and iterative architectural process, we work smart in our physical studio downtown (including hybrid and virtual on-site setups w/ our team), and we aim to persistently evolve and improve.
In a decade, our architecture studio has created over 130 projects from start to finish at many scales around Seattle, the NW, and the surrounding areas. Honors our architecture studio has received include the Best Design for a Multifamily Home of the Year. We work closely and collaboratively w/ the interdisciplinary team for each building we design including the engineers, reviewers, owner, client, consultants, planners, neighborhood, developer, enclosure team, realtor, city officials, interiors, fire protection, MEP subs, manufacturers, and builders. Over 90% of these buildings are rated 4-star Built Green or higher.
We are licensed to create and design any architectural building of any scale including urban mixed-use buildings, towers, single family homes, multifamily residences, townhouses, rowhouses, tenant improvement projects, remodels, historic preservation projects, master planning, offices, urban infill, hospitality projects, mid-rise buildings, low-rise buildings, university projects, confidential studies or projects, institutional projects, non-profit projects, & government projects. To design and create every building and project, we utilize a project and client specific combination of Feasibility, Schematic Design, Design Development, Construction Documents, and Construction Administration phases from start to finish.
Projects are uniquely and economically designed w/ the client’s goals to help make architecture more accessible to everyone at different project scales and budget targets. These buildings have additionally contributed hundreds of units and much funding for growth in Seattle, affordable housing programs, and the Pacific NW. It is our core belief that ecological, inspired, and efficient urbanization will change the world.