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Civic organization focused on bringing Burnham's mentality to Seattle first, then to the rest of the nation. "Aim high in hope and work" https://t.co/yugynz9N43
🦅 ARCHITECTURE THREAD: 1201 Third Avenue is the apex predator of Seattle’s skyline. The city’s most praised skyscraper when it opened in 1988, and within six years home to peregrine falcons, the fastest animal alive, hunting downtown from its crown.
On the southeastern slope ran the Academy: pavilions under three canons of letters, sciences, and arts, plus an open-air Greek theater. In the hollow north of Twin Peaks stood the Amphitheater, modeled on the stadium at Delphi and the Theater of Dionysos at the Acropolis.
🦅 ARCHITECTURE THREAD: 1201 Third Avenue is the apex predator of Seattle’s skyline. The city’s most praised skyscraper when it opened in 1988, and within six years home to peregrine falcons, the fastest animal alive, hunting downtown from its crown.
1201 Third Avenue rises 772 feet in Brazilian granite and emerald glass, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox with Art Deco massing and a stepped crown. It was built for Washington Mutual. The bank failed in 2008 but the tower and its life-spawning ledges remained.
1201 Third Avenue rises 772 feet in Brazilian granite and emerald glass, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox with Art Deco massing and a stepped crown. It was built for Washington Mutual. The bank failed in 2008 but the tower and its life-spawning ledges remained.
1201 Third Avenue rises 772 feet in Brazilian granite and emerald glass, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox with Art Deco massing and a stepped crown. It was built for Washington Mutual. The bank failed in 2008 but the tower and its life-spawning ledges remained.
1201 Third Avenue rises 772 feet in Brazilian granite and emerald glass, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox with Art Deco massing and a stepped crown. It was built for Washington Mutual. The bank failed in 2008 but the tower and its life-spawning ledges remained.
1201 Third Avenue rises 772 feet in Brazilian granite and emerald glass, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox with Art Deco massing and a stepped crown. It was built for Washington Mutual. The bank failed in 2008 but the tower and its life-spawning ledges remained.
HISTORY THREAD: On June 6, 1889, a glue pot boiled over in a cabinet shop on 1st Avenue. By midnight, 25 city blocks were ash. Every wharf. Every bank. Every hotel. Gone. What Seattle built next was one of the greatest comebacks in American urban history:
