Building History
The Harborview Medical Center–Ninth & Jefferson Building is a 14-story, 421,838 square foot medical office building completed in March 2009 and located on the northeast corner of the Harborview Medical Center campus. The building provides state of the art labs for the King County Medical Examiner, Harborview Pathology Department, and the UW School of Medicine. It also houses the King County Superior Court Civil Commitment Court, Neurosurgery and Surgical Spine Clinics, UW Medicine Virology, and numerous other Harborview outpatient clinics, various UW Medicine departments, and several King County agencies.
The building exterior is a combination of classic “Harborview” brick at the base, punched window openings and Giallo granite columns at street level. A glass curtain wall along with metal panels, metal grilles and granite are woven together to enclose the tower portion of the building.
Robert Horner created a lunar calendar of inlaid travertine, quartzite, and slate in the granite floor of the building entry and lobby that maps the moon’s radiant movement for one complete revolution of the earth around the sun. The building lobby showcases the aerial sculpture Vereinigung by Connie Watts. This large suspended artwork features three animal figures: raven, bear, and wolf. The sculpture reflects the culture of Northwest Coast First Nations.
The building’s 650-stall parking garage and an expansive loading dock serve the entire Harborview Medical Center campus.
The Harborview Medical Center–Ninth & Jefferson Building was awarded LEED Gold certification in July 2010, by the U.S. Green Building Council.
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