Exterior rendering of the Pacific building

Parallel

Rooted in Ballard's Nordic tradition. Built to age with the street, not just occupy it.

Off Ballard Ave

56th & 57th · Fall '26

The Philosophy

Architecture is an act of permanence. We built for decades to come, prioritizing the quiet details. The weight of a door, the cast of morning light, the gravity of the streetscape.

Two boutique residential buildings, situated a block apart off Ballard Ave. By splitting the project across two addresses, we maintained a human scale that honors the neighborhood's historic texture, a place shaped by Scandinavian immigrants who valued craft, honesty, and the long view.

Our ground floors are designed as anchors, not pass-throughs. Raw materials that will patina over time. Spaces that feel considered, not decorated. Lagom, the Nordic instinct for just enough. A deliberate sense of scale for those who value the space between.

The Facade

One vocabulary, two palettes

The two buildings share real wood and black metal. Around them, each takes its own color: cream on Pacific, charcoal on Cascade.

Exterior rendering of the Pacific building
Pacific
Exterior rendering of the Cascade building
Cascade

Ephoca

Every residence heats and cools through its own wall unit, with heat recovery. No residence has an outdoor condenser, so there is less machinery on the building and less to maintain.

Inside

The lobby

The rooftop, looking west

Rendering of the Pacific building, corner view

Pacific

Rendering of the Cascade building, street view

Cascade

The Residential Collection

Residences

Unit mix

Pacific48 residences
  • Studio 5
  • Open One Bedroom 13
  • One Bedroom 28
  • Two Bedroom 1
  • Live / Work 1
Cascade76 residences
  • Studio 6
  • Open One Bedroom 25
  • One Bedroom 31
  • Two Bedroom 13
  • Three Bedroom 1

124 residences across both buildings.

48 residences · 5611 20th Ave NW

Specification

In the residences

  • Miele washer, dryer, and dishwasher
  • Ephoca through-wall heating and cooling, with heat recovery
  • Solid wood casework

The buildings

  • Kawneer storefront at street level
  • Solar Innovations sliding doors at the patios, which 15 of the 124 residences have
  • Pivot entry doors

The Fabric

Anchored in Ballard Avenue

Ballard Ave is a landmark district, a street that earned its character over a century and still holds it. Scandinavian fishermen, millworkers, and makers built it up in the 1880s, and its architecture still reads that way: sturdy, unpretentious, built to last. The buildings are low. The storefronts are original. The scale is human in a way that most of Seattle has moved past.

Both buildings were designed to belong here, not to stand apart from it. Two addresses set a block apart, shaped by the rhythm of the street rather than imposed on it.

The kind of street where the walk home is the best part of the evening.

The Ritual

Sunday Farmers Market

Steps from the threshold

The Roots

National Nordic Museum

A five-minute walk

The Anchor

The Olympic Mountains

Visible from upper floors

The Heritage

Ballard Locks

10-minute walk through history

The Coast

Golden Gardens

The city’s edge

The Maritime

Shilshole Bay

The maritime soul of the Northwest

The City

Downtown Seattle

15 min

97

Walk

78

Bike

62

Transit

Nordic Roots

Ballard was once an independent city, founded by Scandinavian immigrants who brought with them a belief that ordinary things should be made well, that a boat, a building, a street should outlast the people who built it.

That instinct still shapes this neighborhood. You can feel it in the low rooflines, the brick storefronts, the Sunday market on the Ave. These buildings are built in the same tradition. Honest materials, human proportion, nothing wasted.

Interested?

We'll reach out within a day. No runaround, just straightforward answers from people who actually know the buildings.

124 residences. Two buildings. Just off Ballard Ave. Built in the tradition of the neighborhood. Fall 2026.

Building

Size

All sources of income are welcome, including housing vouchers and subsidies.