Property Watch: A Vintage Condo Designed by Paul Thiry

Seattle’s own world-famous Paul Thiry was known as a pioneer of American modern architecture. As the principal architect of the 1962 World’s Fair, which brought us major landmarks like the Space Needle, he’s earned his place in the city’s pantheon of greats. But even the most talented of artists start somewhere—which brings us to this one-bedroom condo, filled to the brim with 1920s charm.

This building, originally for-rent apartments before going condo in the 1990s, was among Thiry’s very earliest projects, built when he was fresh out of the University of Washington’s architecture school and before he’d taken up the modernist mantle. It’s considerably more Art

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