rss feedBalance, space and repetition – Seattle style
A. Top: Chong Wa Benevolent Association in Seattle’s Chinatown International District has been around since the 1910s.
It sits at the intersection of South Weller Street and Seventh Avenue South.
B. Middle: Construction in Seattle’s Sodo area at South Spokane Street and Fourth Avenue South.
C. Bottom: Seattle’s Central Library, which remains closed through Sept. 7 because of city budget cuts.
But TED has a 20-minute video featuring Joshua Prince-Ramus, a key architect of the project. About half of the time is devoted to the Seattle library.
And the Seattle Post-Intelligencer published a special section, led largely by writers Rebekah Denn, Regina Hackett and John Douglas Marshall, when it opened in May 2004.
Coverage starts around here but you’ll have to scroll through the archive pages to see the extensive coverage.
Speaking of design and repetition: The Web site of the bauhaus-archiv museum of design is worth visiting.
The Berlin museum’s Bauhaus Collection is closed until October.
Also, a few weeks ago, the construction at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle caught my eye.
Speaking of balance, look for the line that runs through the middle of the Forbidden City in Beijing.
