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Perspectives
By Clair Enlow
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March 22, 2006
Design Perspectives: Would housing cure Seattle Center's identity crisis?
The center is at a crossroads, and an influx of housing for artists and young families could energize the campus.
Ron Sims does not mince words about Seattle Center — when he can find them. The spectacle of wasted opportunity he sees there reduces the usually articulate King County executive to hand-waving. "It's just — well, look at it!"
Whenever Sims comments on the center — as he has several times in recent weeks — he's clearly confident there's something better.
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Previous columns:
- Design Perspectives: How to design with nature, not against it, 02-15-2006
- Design Perspectives: Time to turn South Downtown into an ecotopia, 02-01-2006
- Design Perspectives: SEED marks 30 years of change in the South End, 12-28-2005
- Design Perspectives: Will Seattle find a home for homeless memorial?, 11-30-2005
- 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
