Seattle

Explore the neighborhoods, public spaces and buildings of Seattle through 8 articles.

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Seattle / Markets & food

Pike Place Market: a public market with more than one level and purpose

Pike Place Market is a preserved working district whose history includes farmers, housing and a public vote.

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Seattle / Neighborhoods

Pioneer Square’s masonry streetscape records rebuilding after fire and later resistance to demolition.

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Seattle / Buildings & history

Seattle’s Central Library organizes different activities into a building whose form makes those differences visible.

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Seattle / Public spaces

Westlake Park turns a small piece of downtown street geometry into public ground.

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Seattle / Routes & connections

The Ballard Locks connect boats, water levels and fish migration at the boundary between fresh and salt water.

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Seattle / Public spaces

Olympic Sculpture Park connects separated waterfront land by carrying a landscape over active infrastructure.

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Seattle / Neighborhoods

Seattle’s Chinatown–International District contains overlapping community histories rather than one uniform identity.

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Seattle / Buildings & history

Smith Tower’s pale exterior and narrow upper shaft distinguish it from the masonry district around its base.