AAUP LISTSERV: Don Abramson To become *more* informed about the Nuclear Reactor Building, I encourage anyone who cares enough to follow this thread to peruse the “Statement of Significance” for the NRB in the National Register of Historic Places documentation itself. It’s on page 9[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Architecture’
The Fight to Save a Brutalist Building on the UW Campus
February 26th, 2014 - 4:14 am § in The Ave Scene
The Seattle Way of Preservng a Neighborhood
Among the ugliest of new Seattle’s buildings is the structure next to the Ballad Bridge. Imbedded within this concrete blob is a tiny house that once belonged to Edith Macefield. Then in her 80’s, she refused to sell her little house on N. 48th St., despite being offered $1 million by[...]
July 26th, 2012 - 9:43 am § in America
Detroit
Last year I visited this same place. I was in Ann Arbor to celebrate a bat mitzvah but spent as much free time as coud “seeing Detroit.” In the past, the death of an American city have beem translated into iconic works by Capa, Smith, Frank, or their modern equivalents working for [...]
The essential lesson from the Japan earthquake for the U.S.
Ed . the graphic at the left was mashed up (by me) last year to show what an earthquake might look like in Seattle if it were accompanied by even a mild tsunami. The article below appeared in SA about a years ago, but now is perhaps a good time to think about what could […][...]
January 7th, 2012 - 3:25 am § in The Ave Scene
Too many folks who want to be Mayor?
READMORE at Publicola. For what it is worth, I like a lot of these people but will pay special attention to Ed Murray and Peter Steinbrueck. Ed has been my state senator and a very effective leader in the Senate. He has the political heft to get tings done not only in Seattle but in […][...]
The AVE Scene: Why Marcie Stillman is Wrong About SLU
Over at Crosscut Marcie Sillman has an intriguing history of Seattle as a city of innovation. Here is a taste of what she covers: Boeing Nirvana Amazon Microsoft Starbucks Slate Immunex I found the list somewhat sad. For example SEALAND and United Parcel, both of which loom hugely in today̵[...]
September 16th, 2011 - 8:49 am § in The Ave Scene
The Seattle Waterfront Project
Last month the New York Times (August 21, 2011, By JOHN HARWOOD) summarized the views of business economists about how to stimulate the stalled economy: “While waiting for education investments to pay off, however, Mr. Gross says the government should finance immediate job creation to shore up[...]
February 20th, 2011 - 7:00 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
Seattle’s Unique Opportunity: The Waterfront
This is the city founded centuries ago by people from the Salish Sea. The longboats of our Samish and Duwamish predecessors were part of a network of native navigation reaching from Tacoma to Alaska. The white men came and replaced Chief Seattle’s home but the waterfront remained the cor[...]