Download or read book Downtown Seattle The Contemporary Skyline written by Marques Vickers and published by Marquis Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition is an ongoing architectural pictorial survey of the contemporary Seattle core skyline. Documenting the city’s explosive growth downtown, the profiling images capture the elevated monoliths of the city’s urban expansion. Photographed between 2016-2023, the edition traces over 150 commercial development projects from a variety of completion stages and perspective angles. The heightening of the downtown Seattle skyline up mirrors the prosperity and expansion of the high technology and bio-med business center. The effects of the 2020-21 pandemic modestly slowed the construction pace, as projects had been designed and approved years earlier. The aggressive growth trend raises questions over the potential oversaturation of available office and residential space. With the nature of commercial and remote employment evolving, can the occupancy rates maintain the financial equilibrium necessary the keep these projects solvent and profitable? The contemporary project designs are primarily compositions of steel, glass, and concrete creating innovate structural geometry and exterior skins. Historically, the Seattle regional economy was dependant on the Boeing Corporation and later Microsoft and Amazon as its most visible commercial institutions. Broader tech growth has accelerated the demands for office space, parking, residential housing and transportation solutions. Aggressive development has resulted in soaring rents, traffic congestion and extreme gridlock. The new normal will continue to address these challenges. The city of Seattle appears to be playing infrastructure catch-up. Numerous additional developments under construction and in the planning stages will test the resiliency of the boom era. Optimistic visions towards a vibrant downtown core continue forward. With each subsequent monolith, Seattle solidifies its claim as a building showcase of twenty-first century architecture design, credibility, and stature. Growth has remained an insatiable surge. For the high technology industry to maintain its frenetic pace, progress is essential. Perhaps soon, Seattle and such a volatile industry will arrive at a crossroad where sustaining such expansion becomes problematic and difficult to sustain.
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Download or read book Downtown written by Seattle Skyline Notebook and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 6x9 glossy cover 100 page wide ruled notebook makes the perfect gift for the Seattle fan in your life. You can easily use this journal for recording notes, taking on your Seattle vacation, trip planning, to do lists, or writing about your travels.
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Download or read book Lake Union written by Marques Vickers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographer Marques Vickers has captured over 160 stunning images from thirty-five commercial development projects that shape the nucleus of Seattle's downtown Lake Union district. "Lake Union: The Public Face of Prosperity" is the initial volume in the Vertical Seattle series intended to document the city's dynamic skyline growth. The heightening of the downtown Seattle skyline mirrors the prosperity and expansion of the business core. This change in complexion is most evident along the shoreline of Lake Union, a freshwater passage contained entirely within Seattle's city limits. Lake Union was originally formed by the melting of the Vashon Glacier waters and officially named by Seattle pioneer Thomas Mercer in 1854. Mercer correctly forecasted that with effective damming and canals, the eventual union of Lake Washington and Puget Sound could be completed. The Duwamish and Chinook native tribes called the body small waters. The Boeing Corporation initiated production facilities in 1916. The shoreline for decades remained principally shipyards, wharfs, sawmills and diminutive restaurant and retail outlets. The high technology industry has completely altered the commercials emphasis. The chronic Seattle housing shortage has accentuated a similar boom for elevated residential properties. Staggering glass monoliths have continued to proliferate amongst the welcoming neighborhoods of South Lake Union and periphery sections on the eastern and western shores. Proponents of contemporary progress have welcomed the expansion of mixed-use commercial office, retail, hotel accommodations and permanent living spaces. Assuming that the ambitious pace continues, South Lake Union will consolidate its gateway status towards the historic downtown core. In the process, the construction is eliminating generations of low-rise buildings and structural eyesores of modest or no local architectural significance. The rapid progression has prompted criticism based on the accompanying traffic congestion, skyrocketing leases and parking scarcity. Light rail programs may alleviate some of these concerns. Many critics have cited that the city of Seattle was never intended nor proactively planned to become a major urban center. The infrastructure to accommodate its growth is being installed on a catch-up basis. The argument may be valid, but the city planners of Seattle appear fully committed towards growth and elevated expansion. Activist demands for restraint and moderation are generally muffled amidst the momentum of increasing space demands, public hearings, zoning variances, demolition and construction. The nature of aggressive growth does not historically pause. The Lake Union shoreline has become forever changed. Most of the completed high-rise buildings featured in this edition are less than ten years old. Numerous more are anticipated and currently in diverse stages of planning and completion. This edition's images visually portray the changes in the present tense. Clearly, however, downtown Seattle's future is oriented towards an increasing vertical expansion.
Download or read book Beacon Hill written by Seattle Skyline Notebook and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 6x9 glossy cover 100 page wide ruled notebook makes the perfect gift for the Seattle fan in your life. You can easily use this journal for recording notes, taking on your Seattle vacation, trip planning, to do lists, or writing about your travels.
Download or read book Capitol Hill written by Seattle Skyline Notebook and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 6x9 glossy cover 100 page wide ruled notebook makes the perfect gift for the Seattle fan in your life. You can easily use this journal for recording notes, taking on your Seattle vacation, trip planning, to do lists, or writing about your travels.
Download or read book Citistate Seattle written by Mark Hinshaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With style and humor, the author writes of special places in everyday Seattle. The author takes us to popular, high-profile landmarks like Pike Place Market as well as tucked-away gems — cozy cottages, trendy pubs, gracious apartment buildings, and vibrant urban villages — that flavor and enliven the city. The author shares his eye for unique, humanizing details of design, architecture, and function, bringing this colorful metropolis to life so vividly you'll practically smell the coffee they brew and sell on (almost) every street corner. Along the way, the author explains the public and private decisions that helped Seattle avoid the urban desolation that plagues other American cities. The author introduces many of Seattle's movers and shakers — mayors, developers, artists, and urban pioneers — who took it upon themselves to guide metropolitan Seattle along a different path.
Download or read book Pike Place Market written by Seattle Skyline Notebook and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 6x9 glossy cover 100 page wide ruled notebook makes the perfect gift for the Seattle fan in your life. You can easily use this journal for recording notes, taking on your Seattle vacation, trip planning, to do lists, or writing about your travels.
Download or read book Ballard written by Seattle Skyline Notebook and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 6x9 glossy cover 100 page wide ruled notebook makes the perfect gift for the Seattle fan in your life. You can easily use this journal for recording notes, taking on your Seattle vacation, trip planning, to do lists, or writing about your travels.
Download or read book Selling Seattle written by James Lyons and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starbucks, Microsoft, Amazon.com, World Trade Organisation, grunge music - all concepts that have now become synonymous with Seattle. Selling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America is the first book to examine the impact of Seattle on contemporary culture and to account for the city's rapid rise to fame and influence since the early 1990s. Interdisciplinary in approach - broaching current debates from urban geography and interrogations of economic and cultural globalisation to cinema and media studies - this volume looks closely at the city's representation on film and television as well as in journalism and literature, and also considers the ways in which famous Seattle brands such as Microsoft, Starbucks and grunge worked to establish the city as a symbol of urban desire and fantasy in recent years. Selling Seattle is required reading for anyone who seeks to understand the contemporary American city, and the powerful trends that shape the urban landscape and its place in the popular imagination.
Download or read book Seattle written by Seattle Skyline Writing Essentials and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a great and fun Seattle, Washington Skyline notebook or journal for you or your loved ones that are absolutely OBSESSED with all things SEATTLE including the Space Needle, Mt. Rainier, rainy days, Chihuly and more! Seattle is replete with iconic symbols, from the Space Needle to Pike Place Market. If you have never been to the Pacific Northwest, Seattle is a great place to start. Things to do in Seattle, WA range from the culinary to the adventurous, and everything in between. Whether your heart is set on fresh seafood, visiting the original or kayaking, you can find a way to stay busy in the Washington city. Great for school, college campus, office, etc.
Download or read book Historic Seattle Architecture written by Marques Vickers and published by Marquis Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated edition captures the city’s architecture and constructions built between 1890-1930. Over 300+ photographs document historical structures establishing a visual profile and economic time capsule of Seattle’s early economic legacy. The edition portrays the most influential downtown constructions including the Smith and Seattle Towers, Washington Mutual Triangle, Coliseum Theatre and the Interurban, Arctic, Dexter Horton, and Pioneer Buildings. Photographs from multiple perspectives accentuate distinctive architectural traits and detailing. Contemporary Seattle is undergoing a dynamic resurgence of architectural construction consisting primarily of skyscrapers. Each completed monolith provides an intriguing and often imposing contrast to the modestly scaled structures from a distant era. Historical preservation has enabled Seattle to assume a distinctive and prominent in West Coast architecture. Seattle’s integration of traditional and contemporary design reinforces its image as a desirable urban living environment. Few American cities can still document the precise stages of their evolution by the remaining strata of their architecture. Seattle is an exemplary example showcasing that capability. Historically Seattle was deeply traumatized by a devastating June 6th, 1889 fire that decimated the entire downtown commercial district. The entire composition of wood framed structures was destroyed. The catastrophe ironically rejuvenated the downtown, resulting in a fervent reconstruction program consisting exclusively of stone and brick structures. Most remain standing today. Wood framed building construction was prohibited. The nationwide financial Panic of 1893 compounded the calamity causing a massive slowdown in construction. The Klondike gold rush of 1896 spurred regional economic activity, particularly in providing goods and services to the Alaskan bound miners. During the first two decades of the 20th century, Seattle accommodated a massive incoming immigration. The influx resulted in the creation of outlying tightly concentrated neighborhoods. The downtown core swelled minus coordinated zoned planning. Steep hillsides were lowered to enable fresh constructions and greenbelt territories. Parklands, bridges and public works projects proliferated creating a diverse blend of ambiance and chaos. In 1914, the 38-story Smith Tower was constructed and named after firearm and typewriter magnate Lyman Cornelius Smith. The skyscraper was Seattle’s first and among the tallest outside of New York City at the time of its completion. It remained the tallest building west of the Mississippi until 1931 and was only eclipsed within Seattle upon the construction of the iconic Space Needle in 1962. “Seattle Early and Modernism Architecture” showcases the unique charm of urban Seattle that was and still remains.
Download or read book Seattle s Lake Union written by and published by Nook Press. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographer Marques Vickers has captured over 160 stunning images from thirty-five commercial development projects that shape the nucleus of Seattle's Lake Union district. The heightening of the downtown Seattle skyline mirrors the prosperity and expansion of the business core. This change in complexion is most evident along the shoreline of Lake Union, a freshwater passage contained entirely within Seattle's city limits. Lake Union was originally formed by the melting of the Vashon Glacier waters and officially named by Seattle pioneer Thomas Mercer in 1854. Mercer correctly forecasted that with effective damming and canals, the eventual union of Lake Washington and Puget Sound could be completed. The shoreline for decades remained principally shipyards, wharfs, sawmills and diminutive restaurant and retail outlets. The high technology industry has completely altered the commercials emphasis. The chronic Seattle housing shortage has accentuated a similar boom for elevated residential properties. Staggering glass monoliths have continued to proliferate amongst the welcoming neighborhoods of South Lake Union and periphery sections on the eastern and western shores. Proponents of contemporary progress have welcomed the expansion of mixed-use commercial office, retail, hotel accommodations and permanent living spaces. Assuming that the ambitious pace continues, South Lake Union will consolidate its gateway status towards the historic downtown core. In the process, the construction is eliminating generations of low-rise buildings and structural eyesores of modest or no local architectural significance. The Lake Union shoreline has become forever changed. Most of the completed high-rise buildings featured iare less than ten years old. Numerous more are anticipated and currently in diverse stages of planning and completion. This edition's images visually portray the changes in the present tense. Seattle is oriented towards an increasing vertical expansion.
Download or read book Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary US Film written by Hannah Hamad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interrogates representations of fatherhood across the spectrum of popular U.S. film of the early twenty-first century. It situates them in relation to postfeminist discourse, identifying and discussing dominant paradigms and tropes that emerge from the tendency of popular cinema to configure ideal masculinity in paternal terms. It analyses postfeminist fatherhood across a range of genres including historical epics, war films, westerns, bromantic comedies, male melodramas, action films, family comedies, and others. It also explores recurring themes and intersections such as the rejuvenation of aging masculinities through fatherhood, the paternalized recuperation of immature adult masculinities, the relationship between fatherhood in film and 9/11 culture, post-racial discourse in representations of fatherhood, and historically located formations of fatherhood. It is the first book length study to explore the relationship between fatherhood and postfeminism in popular cinema.
Download or read book Vertical Bellevue written by Marques Vickers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographer Marques Vickers has captured over 125 stunning images from thirty-two commercial and residential high-rise projects that constitute the nucleus of Bellevue, Washington's downtown core. His edition "Vertical Bellevue: Architecture Above a Boomburb Skyline" aesthetically documents the contemporary construction vision evolving along the eastern shores of Lake Washington. The photographic edition is Vickers' third in his Vertical Washington series of architecture books.The heightening of the downtown Bellevue skyline mirrors the prosperity and expansion of the community's business base. Vickers' photography isolates the aesthetic imprint of contemporary glass architecture design. An accompanying essay "Glass Curtain Architecture" traces the historical evolution and layered components of glass exterior constructions.Vickers commentary follows the evolution of high-rise structures dating from the ancient Roman era into contemporary design. Vickers traces the increased evolution of glass exteriors based on a fundamental architectural shift in structural emphasis beginning in the 20th century. Masonry based walls supporting the weight of structures were replaced by steel spined framing. The load-bearing hollow cylinders supported wall curtains that ultimately made glass panes an ideal fixture.The traditional considerations for employing glass have included economics, ease and speed of installation and weight factors. Although significantly lighter than masonry, glass high-rises have come under increasing criticism and scrutiny for issues including energy consumption, CO2 emissions, privacy, slippage and projected lifespans.Economics, engineering and construction management remain essential elements to preserving the equilibrium between beauty and practicality. In Bellevue, the sleek and gleaming reflective glass curtains reign and are anticipated to increase. Straddling Lake Washington and connected to urban Seattle by two floating bridges, Bellevue is considered an Eastside boomburb (booming suburb). Bellevue, which translates into beautiful view in French, is a 37-square mile community with a population of 135,000. The cornerstone development is the Lincoln Square shopping complex and extension. Most of the vertical project planning began in the 1990s upon the outgrowth of Greater Seattle regional expansion.
Download or read book Seeing Seattle written by Roger Sale and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time that Roger Sale's interpretive history Seattle Past to Present was published in 1976 he has often served as an unofficial guide for friends and visitors to Seattle, and has also been asked by those who run professional tours for advice on how to view Seattle with fresh eyes. In Seeing Seattle he invites the reader to join him in walking tours of the city in a collaborative process of looking, asking, and forming opinions and judgments. The book starts near where Seattle itself started and works out to the city limits in layers. In the first walk, the Pioneer Square area reveals through its buildings - many of them handsomely rehabilitated - how the city re-established itself after the great fire of 1889. We are asked to observe and evaluate how new buildings and new uses have been combined with old ones, and how architects, builders, and planners have served this historical area. The same points are considered for the downtown business district, Pike Place Market, and other areas near the historic core of the city. We face the breathtaking downtown skyline from viewpoints on Seattle's many hills, from points across the bay at Duwamish Head, and from Seward Park, which has Seattle's largest stand of old-growth forest. What makes Seattle distinctively Seattle? Sale muses over this question as he walks through the older residential sections of Queen Anne Hill and Capitol Hill, with their mansions and near mansions. He traces the routes along Lake Washington Boulevard and the influence of the Olmsted brothers in shaping the social as well as the visual landscape of the city. He tours upscale neighborhoods with lake and sound views as well as working-class neighborhoods thatowe their history and early growth to nearby mills and streetcar transportation. He visits the Chinatown/International District and the University of Washington, and learns to identify trees in Washington Park Arboretum and to recognize those trees elsewhere. He finds the "enchanted house" where Mary McCarthy lived as a girl and the garden in which Theodore Roethke sought solitude among trees that "came closer with a denser shade". Sale and photographer Mary Randlett have worked together to integrate photographs closely with text and promote a view of Seattle in a context of new and old, landscapes and skyscrapers, neighborhood streets and remarkable vistas. Estimated times for each walk (or drive, in outlying areas) and bus route information are provided.
