Strategy To renovate a vintage 1926 brick and terra cotta Seattle hotel and take full advantage of its ideal location—where the hip Belltown neighborhood meets the downtown’s core retail district.     Story We updated the traditional “Seattle meets Scandinavia” story with the Andra, which means “change” in Swedish. Guests enter a cool fusion of contemporary Scandinavian design and natural elements—water, wood, stone— indigenous to the Northwest. The synergy begins in the hotel’s living room, with its Jacobsen swan chairs, distressed plank floors inset with custom hand-knotted rugs, and a fireplace of local split-grain granite topped with a steel-wrapped plasma screen that projects a rotating collection of fine art. Floating above: the exposed Loft, with its sleek salon chairs and glass-and-steel railing. Guest rooms and suites have the same alluring mix of warm comfort and minimalist style.