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That s the wading pool in Highland Park, which didn t open last summer because the city hadn t done federally mandated safety upgrades. They d been shelved because it s slated to be converted to a spray park (as first reported here six months ago). R...

topics: architecture, design, environment, neighborhood, on-the-boards

aggregated from: Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide

Queen Anne has long been one of my favorite Seattle neighborhoods because of its easy proximity to Downtown Seattle while still maintaining a small town feel. The Queen Anne Neighborhood of Seattle is amazing from all angles on the North slope th...

topics: architecture, ballard, condo, condos, downtown

aggregated from: Cascade Chapter

High Tension over Big Timber, by Christine MacDonaldLate in 2007, storm-driven rains in southwestern Washington sent floodwater, mud, and tons of logging debris crashing into homes and farmland downstream of the Chehalis River. Numerous landslides de...

aggregated from: Slog

At 12:50 p.m. today, the defeated mayor of Seattle climbed up to the 11th floor of the clock tower at King Street Station (a structure that should have been demolished instead of endlessly being renovated) and officially restarted the station's long-...

aggregated from: Biz Buzz

A fresh design taller and more compatible with the surrounding historic structures than previous proposals emerged this week for a new hotel in downtown Tacoma's Brewery District.The new concept, the result of than 18 months' redesign effort ...

topics: architecture, downtown, economy, tacoma

aggregated from: Slog

This image from the Stanger's photo pool...The image says this, which is the truth: It is still the greatest work of architecture in our city. There is no comparison, no doubt, no contest. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]...

aggregated from: Slog

As for me, I prefer my bridges to be dead. To the tipper Christin: The reason why I refuse to ride a horse is not far from the reason why I would find it hard to cross that bridge. Life as a means of transportation is as troubling to me as life as a ...

aggregated from: Slog

SIMPARCH, I am sorry. Your landing in Seattle did not make it into our calendar, and I'm not sure why.But we would have starred you.SIMPARCH started in 1996 as a group of four artists in Las Cruces, N.M., who wanted to bring together the words simpl...

topics: architecture, bellevue, gallery

aggregated from: Biz Buzz

Tacoma's BLRB Architects has won a spot on a new list of the 200 fastest-growing architecture, engineering and environmental consulting firms in the country.That list is published by management consulting and research firm ZweigWhite.The company's Ho...

topics: architecture, tacoma

aggregated from: crosscut.com : Mossback

Vancouver, BC has been a model of modern city planning, envied and emulated from the Middle East to South Lake Union. Now, one of the Canadian city's most prominent architects will be representing the USA in urban design at Expo 2010 in Shanghai by d...

topics: architecture, budget, green-building, high-tech, sustainability