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Macy's (former Bon Marché), Seattle, 1929; Naval Reserve Armory, Seattle, 1942 [1] Pacific Tower, Seattle, 1932; Sanctuary at Admiral, Seattle, 1929; Schmitz Park Bridge, Seattle, 1936; Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, 1933 [1] Seattle Tower (former Northern Life Tower), Seattle, 1927; SIFF Cinema Uptown (former Uptown Theatre), Seattle ...
The Volunteer Park Conservatory is a botanical garden, conservatory, and Seattle landmark located in Seattle, Washington at the north end of Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill. Made up of 3,426 glass panes fit into a wood and iron framework, this Victorian-style greenhouse structure is modeled on London's Crystal Palace. Inside, the Volunteer Park ...
Sonic Bloom is a 2013 solar-powered sculpture by Dan Corson, installed in Seattle's Pacific Science Center, in the U.S. state of Washington. [1] [2] [3] Bellamy Pailthorp wrote, "It looks a bit like something you might find in a book by Dr. Seuss: five huge sculpted sunflowers with striped green and orange stems."
Urban Garden is a sculpture by Ginny Ruffner, installed in Seattle, Washington, United States. [1] [2] It depicts a pot, flowers, and watering can. [3] The 27-foot-tall kinetic sculpture was commissioned by the Sheraton Seattle Hotel and weighs approximately 10,000 pounds. [4] [5] The pot is 9 feet tall and 7 feet wide. [6]
The Lake Washington Ship Canal and Ballard Locks (a.k.a. Hiram M. Chittenden Locks), opened in 1917, were funded by Washington state but built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. [174] The Administration Building for the locks was designed by prominent Seattle architects Bebb and Gould and completed 1916.
Partners Charles Herbert Bebb and Carl Freylinghausen Gould were jointly responsible for the construction of many buildings on the University of Washington's Seattle campus, as well as the Seattle Times Square Building (1914), Everett Public Library, U.S. Marine Hospital (1930–32, now known as Pacific Tower and converted to mixed use), and ...
Washington's first official symbol was its flag, adopted in 1923. While some symbols, including the state flower and state seal, were selected before then, they were not adopted by the Legislature until later. Washington's second symbol was the western hemlock, selected as the state tree in 1947. Fourteen symbols were added between 1950 and 2000.
A Northwest Regional style house in the Matthews Beach neighborhood of Seattle. Northwest Regional style architecture is an architectural style popular in the Pacific Northwest between 1935 and 1960. [1] It is a regional variant of the International style. [1] It is defined by the extensive use of unpainted wood in both interiors and exteriors. [1]