Design Perspectives By Clair Enlow

March 21, 2007

Design Perspectives: Public Safety block promises a green future

This year got off to a great start with the opening of the Olympic Sculpture Park, a striking swath of green with natural and urban scenery.

And with last month's announcement of a development team for Civic Square, the hole in the ground formerly known as the Public Safety Building block, Seattle has truly entered a new era of the civic scale.

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Previous columns:

• Design Perspectives: Surface option lets the sun shine on waterfront, 02-28-2007
• Design Perspectives: Politicians’ viaduct plan a formula for deadlock, 01-24-2007
• Design Perspectives: Sculpture park reflects and reveals the city, 01-17-2007
• Design Perspectives: The long wait at King Street Station is nearly over, 12-06-2006
• Design Perspectives: If I-933 passes, expect chaos and a flood of lawsuits, 10-18-2006
• Design Perspectives: Viaduct: just say yes to no-build option, 09-20-2006
• Design Perspectives -- Qwest Field north lot: Will the right vision win?, 07-26-2006
• Design Perspectives -- Smart growth: champions and challengers, 06-28-2006