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Showing posts with label construction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label construction. Show all posts
27.4.19
In, out, and around Pioneer Square
A sunny day... a meander...
1.6.15
The Coffee Brewing or Just After
The bikini baristas in the coffee shack down the road have moved on but their color scheme remains.
Apologies to William Carlos Williams
Apologies to William Carlos Williams
26.12.14
Schoolroom interiors
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2.2.12
Near the End of the Age of Petroleum, Part IV
One Man's Eyesore... Is Another Man's Art.
"Sometimes it's OK to let an old landmark go"
I saw the above article in the local paper the other day and my Eff-Stop klaxons went off. This cool old garage was due to be torn down the next day. I hopped in the Canonmobile and sped across the lake.
From the article:
"Tom Flood, a teacher at Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences (SAAS) [turned it] into an art studio, where kids from the Coyote Central after-school program built soapbox-derby cars (3,000 over 10 years, by Flood's estimate), and learned how to weld and build furniture. It was also the place where Flood created community art, like the metal tree in front of Madrona Elementary; works at seven other Seattle public schools; and at Childhaven."
"The garage also served as a shelter for a group of SAAS students who were brought here by teacher Roger Murray during the school's annual Seattle Challenge, which gives kids a three-day taste of homelessness."
Alas, the comments on the Seattle Times web article reflect not only the Philistine nature of the commenters as regards what constitutes art, history, and architecture, but a snarky attitude toward environmentalism and just about everything else. Reactionary Seattle at its best.
I find this "grafitti" cheerfully colorful, witty, and all-around artful -- not only compared to the typical indecipherable gang tags but more importantly compared to the ubiquitous and soul-numbing advertising that no one seems to mind covering every possible surface in our society.
"Sometimes it's OK to let an old landmark go"
I saw the above article in the local paper the other day and my Eff-Stop klaxons went off. This cool old garage was due to be torn down the next day. I hopped in the Canonmobile and sped across the lake.
From the article:
"Tom Flood, a teacher at Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences (SAAS) [turned it] into an art studio, where kids from the Coyote Central after-school program built soapbox-derby cars (3,000 over 10 years, by Flood's estimate), and learned how to weld and build furniture. It was also the place where Flood created community art, like the metal tree in front of Madrona Elementary; works at seven other Seattle public schools; and at Childhaven."
"The garage also served as a shelter for a group of SAAS students who were brought here by teacher Roger Murray during the school's annual Seattle Challenge, which gives kids a three-day taste of homelessness."
Alas, the comments on the Seattle Times web article reflect not only the Philistine nature of the commenters as regards what constitutes art, history, and architecture, but a snarky attitude toward environmentalism and just about everything else. Reactionary Seattle at its best.
I find this "grafitti" cheerfully colorful, witty, and all-around artful -- not only compared to the typical indecipherable gang tags but more importantly compared to the ubiquitous and soul-numbing advertising that no one seems to mind covering every possible surface in our society.
28.11.10
From the Archives
Inclement weather has precluded much flaneuring recently so here are some shots of rows of things in the Fremont district of Seattle, from 2005...
The arrested idols
The Frigidaire graveyard
The ghost door parade
The hits of Spring
9.8.10
In Progress
Been reading about Archimedes recently. I can't help it, I like geometry even though I'm hopeless at it. And what better place to see shapes and angles at work than at a building site?
New housing development in Issaquah
New housing development in Issaquah
13.1.10
15.12.09
Construction, Deconstruction
The local school building is once again in transition.
Out with the old concrete blocks, in with the new.
Mattresses? We don't need no steenkin' mattresses.
You can never have enough hurricane fencing.
Out with the old concrete blocks, in with the new.
Mattresses? We don't need no steenkin' mattresses.
You can never have enough hurricane fencing.
19.9.09
Let There Be Darkness
The husk of the once bustling Mervyn's department store (Factoria Mall branch) has been waiting six months for a new inhabitant.
1.6.09
3.5.09
Homage to "Hurricane" Friedlander
A study of hurricane (aka "chain-link") fencing, inspired by the "Sticks and Stones" collection of urban photos by Lee Friedlander...
The late, great Rainier Cold Storage building on Airport Way.
Somewhere in Bellevue: "No U Turn." You said it!
Roosevelt district, part of entire block of condemned buildings owned by our infamous ex-landlord Hugh Sisley.
Failed nursery, near Bel-Red Road. The "Private Property" sign seems to have failed as well.
"Emerald City": failed gas station, Bellevue.
Walling off the bike path in Seattle's Fremont district.
Bellevue's Eastside Catholic High, closed up for good.
The late, great Rainier Cold Storage building on Airport Way.
Somewhere in Bellevue: "No U Turn." You said it!
Roosevelt district, part of entire block of condemned buildings owned by our infamous ex-landlord Hugh Sisley.
Failed nursery, near Bel-Red Road. The "Private Property" sign seems to have failed as well.
"Emerald City": failed gas station, Bellevue.
Walling off the bike path in Seattle's Fremont district.
Bellevue's Eastside Catholic High, closed up for good.
6.3.09
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