About the author  ⁄ Jason Thome, P.E., S.E.

Jason Thome is a Senior Associate at Cary Kopczynski & Company, Inc. P.S. (CKC). He is a current member of ACI Committee 374, Performance-Based Seismic Design of Concrete Buildings. (jasont@ckcps.com)

Kiara is a 41-story, 435-foot-tall luxury apartment tower over a seven-level podium with six levels of below-grade parking in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, near Amazon’s global headquarters. This modern, sleek tower features over 460 residential units, 15,600 square feet of retail space, and two rooftop decks – one at the top of the podium with a freestanding outdoor pavilion and the other at Level 41 with lush landscaping and an indoor sky lounge. The project is targeting LEED Silver. Construction started in 2016 and was completed in the summer of 2018 (Figure 1).

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