Ramble down the garden path and you will discover City Cabin. In among the dense green shrubbery dotted throughout the yard, and seamlessly blending with the golden-brown trunks of the trees, is a twobedroom dwelling that celebrates nature — right in residential Seattle.
“The surrounding houses are mostly lowrise ramblers built in the 1960s and ‘70s,” says Jim Olson, design principal at Olson Kundig. “It feels a little bit suburban. Overall, the neighbourhood doesn’t have a strong sense of architectural character, though the gardens tend
