This project renovated a pair of 1920s brick and heavy timber buildings on Capitol Hill and combined the two development sites into one. The building to the east has been home to Pagliacci Pizza’s offices for 20 years. The building anchoring Crawford and Pike to the west was a commissary kitchen and storage. Both buildings required substantial renovations, including seismic upgrades, changes of use, MEP and energy improvements. The commissary kitchen became Pagliacci’s new flagship restaurant. The surrounding structures were redesigned to create a new call center, test and training kitchen, offices, a gym and two new retail storefronts.

Our design for Pagliacci’s flagship restaurant resulted in the most recognizable changes. We stripped back decades of prior remodels to expose the building’s original structure. We introduced new steel moment frames, X-bracing, grouted micro piles and anchors to strengthen the building design. We created a new recessed entry at the street corner with planters and doors that feature custom pulls – a pair of exposed aggregate concrete cylinders cored from the building’s foundation. We clad the building in a mix of brick and wood siding to tie it aesthetically to its neighbor. We designed new floor to ceiling windows to brighten the dining space and increase visibility from the street. We designed the signage and collaborated with local art and craft masters, such as Resolute Lighting and Ames Bros, to create design elements that highlight Pagliacci’s 40 year history, including the heirloom Vespa light fixture which hangs over the office entrance and a new Squatch mural facing Crawford. The original structure is on display again, redefined as Pagliacci’s flagship restaurant