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January 18, 2017

National nonprofit says museum expansion threatens Volunteer Park landscape design

By JOURNAL STAFF

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Opponents say a glass lobby that is part of the $49 million proposal would be “uncomfortably close, uncomfortably tall,” casting shadows and disrupting the privacy of people below.

The Cultural Landscape Foundation has designated Volunteer Park as a “Landslide” — a threatened landscape of national significance — because of the proposal to expand the Seattle Asian Art Museum.


 
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