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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 ...
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Washington is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Washington. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Name
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.
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.
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 Arboretum Sewer Trestle (also known as Arboretum Aqueduct, [2] Arboretum Aqueduct and Sewer Trestle, [3] or Wilcox Footbridge [3]) is a historic multiarched concrete-and-brick trestle and footbridge [3] in the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle, Washington.
Amazon began planning a large Seattle headquarters campus in the early 2010s, acquiring three blocks in the Denny Triangle area in 2012. [16] The original design for the second tower included a six-story building with flexible workspaces and a meeting center, but was later changed to a spherical conservatory. [ 17 ]
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."