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Perspectives
By Clair Enlow
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November 30, 2005
Design Perspectives: Will Seattle find a home for homeless memorial?
A recent competition to design a Place of Remembrance drew interest from local designers and homeless advocates. But will the city make it a reality?
Icame downtown to visit the new City Hall plaza late last summer and look at the architecture.
Before I got there I was stopped by an unexpected vision. A dozen or so women dressed in black stood in evenly spaced formation along Fifth Avenue in front of the Justice Center.
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Previous columns:
- Design Perspectives: Preparing now for a warmer, wetter future, 10-26-2005
- Design Perspectives: Take a look at how Southeast Seattle is changing, 09-28-2005
- Design Perspectives: More like Vancouver? Read the fine print, 08-17-2005
- Design Perspectives — Green Line: Can this project be saved?, 07-20-2005
- Design Perspectives: SAM and BAM: tale of two cities, 06-22-2005
- Design Perspectives: Fitting the final piece into the Civic Center puzzle, 05-18-2005
- Design Perspectives: Vancouver: what works there, won't here, 04-20-2005
- Design Perspectives: Neighborhoods can blaze the green trail, 03-23-2005