This week a remarkable transformation of a toxic waste site will be complete when it is reopened to the public by the Seattle Art Museum as the Olympic Sculpture Park, one of the largest art spaces anywhere in the country.
This image of Seattle's Sculpture Park shows Yesler as a vibrant street that carries the charms of Pioneer Square around the corner and to the Waterfront. Additional, traditional looking lampposts, banners, and a flowerbed boulevard are relatively inexpensive changes that will lead a pedestrian or driver from Pioneer Square to the Waterfront. In the center of the image, a streetcar stop, modeled after the Pioneer Square Pergola and fountain replace a surface parking lot. The streetcar on Western could link the stadiums, Pioneer Square, the Waterfront, Pike Place Market, Belltown, forthcoming Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Center and South Lake Union.
A pedestrian bridge and spiral tower could provide another interesting path between the Market and the Waterfront. The tower could also serve a ventilation stack for the cut-and-cover tunnel a neighborhood icon.
This image of Seattle's Sculpture Park shows Yesler as a vibrant street that carries the charms of Pioneer Square around the corner and to the Waterfront. Additional, traditional looking lampposts, banners, and a flowerbed boulevard are relatively inexpensive changes that will lead a pedestrian or driver from Pioneer Square to the Waterfront. In the center of the image, a streetcar stop, modeled after the Pioneer Square Pergola and fountain replace a surface parking lot. The streetcar on Western could link the stadiums, Pioneer Square, the Waterfront, Pike Place Market, Belltown, forthcoming Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Center and South Lake Union.
A pedestrian bridge and spiral tower could provide another interesting path between the Market and the Waterfront. The tower could also serve a ventilation stack for the cut-and-cover tunnel a neighborhood icon.
We've started a Flickr photo group for shots of the sculpture park. There are some great ones up there already, and we would love to see you and your readers best shots!
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This is freakin crazy. Landfills and dumps should be closed for good with a 10 mile buffer. Not opened as shopping mals.
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