#seattle downtown

[christmaslightssalesman]

Neons of Pike Place Market. 2023.

Follow for more Seattle. I'm always out with a camera, if you see me say hello.

[jijigarden]

[artdecodude]

Downtown Seattle Art Deco. Near the 5th Ave Theatre. :me/2024

[samhorine]

winter light // early sunsets - February 2020

[chrissyb3ar]

[minotaurfemme]

every time i do psychedelics my resolve to get sluttier grows

[eopederson]

High rise née Washington Mutual Building, downtown Seattle, 2014.

This rather awful building was built to house the corporate headquarters of Washington Mutual. In 2008 that firm went down in flames as one of the largest bank failures in US history. Not sure what is the buildings current name or its use, but it has to be one of the uglier buildings in a central business district dotted with modern architectural excrescence.

[allanodyne]

A weak worn out friend

by AllanOdyne

[snoozercloneboy]

[quick-release-velozine]

Sub 24-hour over-nighter. Ballard to Manchester St. Park and back. Spring 2019.

[christmaslightssalesman]

It falls

[eopederson2]

Seattle high rises, 2019.

Seeing this picture, I realized that I have not been in Seattle, my native city and home for a number of years, since 2019. A combination of other trips, COVID-19, and obligations elsewhere in the PNW can be blamed. A planned 2024 Spring trip had to be cancelled when we discovered our 17 year old cat had hyperthyroidism and needed radioactive iodine treatments. He seems to be recovering, but now we have a long planned trip to Eastern Europe on the horizon, so it will be October before a visit is possible. As all who have lived in the Puget Sound region know well, October can offer wonderful weather or 31 days of rain and gloom, so we are undecided about a trip.

[novelistparty]

so Seattle has a fancy new waterfront wildlife overpass that'll get you (on foot) from Pike Place Market at the top of the hill (50 meters elevation) down to the waterfront, safely past all the automobile traffic. Is it better than existing options? maybe? It was really awkward to navigate. Confusing path design. Stop-and-go crowd flow because of weird angles around parts of the path. It's tall and the paths are sooo long (there's 50m elevation to climb). I place blame for the awkwardness of the overall design squarely on the shoulders of the city grid planners that decided to put streets straight down the hillside The views up high are nice but at the bottom it drops you out onto the back utility entrance to the aquarium. Then to your right is a cramped and under-planned section of waterfront towards the sculpture garden and to your left is also a lot of empty space in the direction of other piers. It's the eternal problem of downtown seattle: it wasn't designed around people. Anything sorta-ok is only a tourist destination. None of it feels lived-in at all

here's a picture from a post at The Urbanist

It's ugly. It's an interstate highway project at people-scale. It stinks.

[pauldavidgibson]

Sitting in Traffic Seattle, WA March 2023

[samhorine]

seattle on film - january 2020

[chrissyb3ar]