Seattle
Seattle City Hall is located in downtown Seattle, Washington, between 4th Avenue and 5th Avenue. The building houses the offices of the Seattle City Council and the Mayor of Seattle. Most city departments are located in the nearby Seattle Municipal Tower. In 2003, the Seattle city government moved into a new, "green" city hall building. Until 1962, the city government operated from the King County Courthouse, alongside the King County government. The new City Hall and Plaza, together with the adjacent Seattle Municipal Tower, Seattle Justice Center, and Civic Square, comprise the Seattle Civic Center.Awards 2005 U.S. Green Building Council: LEED-NC v2 Gold 2005 AIA Seattle: Commendation for Design 2006 AIA Washington Civic Design Awards: Honor Award 2006 American Institute of Steel Construction IDEAS Awards Program: Merit Award 2007 AIA Northwest & Pacific Region: Merit Award
The Fremont Troll is a public sculpture in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington in the United States.Artists and inspirationThe Troll was sculpted by four local artists: Steve Badanes, Will Martin, Donna Walter, and Ross Whitehead. The idea of a troll living under a bridge is derived from the Scandinavian (Norwegian) fairytale Three Billy Goats Gruff.HistoryIn 1990, the Fremont Arts Council launched an art competition whose partial goal was to rehabilitate the area under the bridge, which was becoming a dumping ground and haven for drug dealers. The piece, built later that same year, won the competition.DescriptionThe Troll is a mixed media colossal statue, located on N. 36th Street at Troll Avenue N., under the north end of the George Washington Memorial Bridge (also known as the Aurora Bridge). It is clutching an actual Volkswagen Beetle, as if it had just swiped it from the roadway above. The vehicle has a California license plate.The Troll is 5.5m high, weighs 6000kg, and is made of steel rebar, wire, and concrete. He is interactive—visitors are encouraged to clamber on him or try to poke out his one good eye (a hubcap).
Kerry Park is een park in de wijk Queen Anne in Seattle. Het park heeft een oppervlakte van 0,5 hectare en is aangelegd in 1927. Kerry Park is vernoemd naar Albert Sperry Kerry, die ook het park heeft laten aanleggen. Het park is vooral bekend voor het uitzicht op de stad Seattle.In Kerry Park staat sinds 1971 het sculptuur "Changing Form", gemaakt door Doris Chase.
Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington, is a 19.1acre public park on the site of the former Seattle Gas Light Company gasification plant, located on the north shore of Lake Union at the south end of the Wallingford neighborhood. The park was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 2, 2013, more than a decade after being nominated.Gas Works park contains remnants of the sole remaining coal gasification plant in the United States. The plant operated from 1906 to 1956 and was bought by the City of Seattle for park purposes in 1962. The park opened to the public in 1975. The park was designed by Seattle landscape architect Richard Haag, who won the American Society of Landscape Architects Presidents Award of Design Excellence for the project. It was originally named Myrtle Edwards Park, after the city councilwoman who had spearheaded the drive to acquire the site and who died in a car crash in 1969. In 1972, the Edwards family requested that her name be taken off the park because the design called for the retention of much of the plant. In 1976, Elliott Bay Park, just north of Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, was renamed Myrtle Edwards Park.OverviewGas Works Park incorporates numerous pieces of the old plant. Some stand as ruins, while others have been reconditioned, painted, and incorporated into a children's "play barn" structure, constructed in part from what was the plant's exhauster-compressor building. A web site affiliated with the Seattle Times newspaper says, "Gas Works Park is easily the strangest park in Seattle and may rank among the strangest in the world."
