Olympic Sculpture Park

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The Olympic Sculpture Park is a public park in Seattle, Washington that opened on January 20, 2007. The park consists of a 9-acre (36,000 m2) outdoor sculpture museum and beach. The park was designed by Weiss/Manfredi Architects, along with Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture, Magnusson Klemencic Associates and other consultants. It is situated at the northern end of the Seattle seawall and the southern end of Myrtle Edwards Park. The former industrial site was occupied by the oil and gas corporation Unocal until the 1970s and subsequently became a contaminated brownfield before the Seattle Art Museum proposed to transform the area into one of the only green spaces in Downtown Seattle. The park is operated by the Seattle Art Museum, which also operates an expanded main branch at First Avenue and University Street and the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill.

As a free-admission public outdoor sculpture park with both permanent and visiting installations, it is a unique institution in the United States. The idea of creating a park for large, contemporary sculpture in Seattle grew from a discussion in 1996 between Seattle Art Museum director (and wife of William Gates Sr.) Mimi Gardner Gates and Martha Wyckoff while stranded on a fly fishing trip in Mongolia due to a helicopter crash. Wykoff, being a trustee of the Trust for Public Land, soon after began an effort to identify possible locations for the park.

A $30 million gift from Mary and Jon Shirley (former COO of Microsoft and Chairman of the Seattle Art Museum Board of Directors) established them as foundational donors.[4] As part of constructing the sculpture park, 5.7 million dollars were spent transforming 1,000 feet (300 m) of the seawall and underwater shoreline inside Myrtle Edwards park. A three level underwater slope was built with 50,000 tonnes of riprap. The first level of the slope is large rocks to break up waves. The second is a flat bench level to recreate an intertidal zone. The lower level is covered with smaller rocks designed to attract sealife and large kelp. It is hoped that this recreated strand will help revitalise juvenile salmon from the Duwamish River and serve as a test for future efforts.

Maintenance of the sculptures has been an ongoing issue. The environment near a large salt water body has been corrosive to pieces like Bunyon's Chess, made primarily of exposed wood and metal. Tall painted pieces such as Eagle need to be watched for damage from birds and their waste. Maintenance of these large structures is expensive, requiring scaffolding or boom lifts. The paint on Eagle is also damaged by grass clippings near the base of its installation, requiring the gardeners to use scissors instead of a lawn mower near the sculpture.

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Places to see in ( Seattle - USA )

Places to see in ( Seattle - USA )

Seattle, a city on Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest, is surrounded by water, mountains and evergreen forests, and contains thousands of acres of parkland. Washington State’s largest city, it’s home to a large tech industry, with Microsoft and Amazon headquartered in its metropolitan area. The futuristic Space Needle, a 1962 World’s Fair legacy, is its most iconic landmark. The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 100 miles (160 km) south of the Canada–United States border. A major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015.

First time in Seattle? Cut to the chase and make a beeline for its proverbial pantry: Pike Place Market. It was founded in 1907 to fortify locals with fresh Northwest produce, and its long-held mantra of ‘meet the producer’ still echoes enthusiastically around a city where every restaurateur worth their salt knows the name of their fishmonger and the biography of the cow that became yesterday’s burgers. It doesn’t take long to realize that you’ve arrived in a city of well-educated palates and wildly experimental chefs who are willing to fuse American cuisine with just about anything – as long as it’s local.

Visitors setting out to explore Seattle should think of the city as a United States of Neighborhoods or – to put it in more human terms – a family consisting of affectionate but sometimes errant siblings. There’s the aloof, elegant one (Queen Anne), the cool, edgy one (Capitol Hill), the weird, bearded one (Fremont), the independently minded Scandinavian one (Ballard), the grizzled old grandfather (Pioneer Square) and the precocious adolescent still carving out its identity (South Lake Union). You’ll never fully understand Seattle until you’ve spent a bit of time with them all.

To outsiders, Seattle is an industrious creator of macro-brands. To insiders, it’s a city of micro-businesses and boundary-pushing grassroots movements. For proof, dip into the third-wave coffee shops, the microbreweries with their casual tasting rooms or the cozy informal bookstores that remain rock solid in a city that spawned Amazon. Then there are the latest national trends that Seattle has helped create: craft cider, pot shops, micro-distilleries, specialist pie-makers, homemade ice cream and fledgling nano-breweries. Walk the streets and scour the neighborhoods; there’s far more to this city than Starbucks' vanilla lattes and Boeing airplanes.

It may have nurtured tech giants Microsoft and Amazon, but that doesn’t mean Seattle hasn’t got a surreal, arty side. Crisscross its urban grid and you’ll find all kinds of apparitions: a rocket sticking out of a shoe shop; a museum built to resemble a smashed-up electric guitar; glass orbs in wooden canoes; a statue of Lenin; a mural made of used chewing gum; fish-tossing market traders; and a museum dedicated to antique pinball machines (that you can still play). No, you haven't over-indulged in some powerful (legal) marijuana. You’ve just worked out that Seattle is far more bohemian than beige.

A lot to see in Seattle such as :

Space Needle
Pike Place Market
Chihuly Garden and Glass
Museum of Pop Culture
Gum Wall
Seattle Center
Seattle Art Museum
Kerry Park
Puget Sound
Pioneer Square
Seattle Aquarium
Olympic Sculpture Park
Gas Works Park
Lake Union
Woodland Park Zoo
Seattle Great Wheel
Pacific Science Center
Discovery Park
Fremont
Lake Washington
The Museum of Flight
Alki Beach
Bill Speidel's Underground Tour
Elliott Bay
Washington Park Arboretum UW Botanic Gardens
Ballard (Hiram M. Chittenden) Locks
Smith Tower
Visit Seattle
Fremont Troll
Golden Gardens Park
Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI)
Central Waterfront, Seattle
Washington Trails Association
Volunteer Park
Tillicum Village
Columbia Center
Seattle–Bainbridge ferry
Belltown
Carkeek Park
Sky View Observatory - Columbia Center
Blake Island
Seattle Central Library
Seattle Chinatown-International District
Asian Art Museum
Seattle Japanese Garden
Waterfront Park
Seattle Children's Museum
South Lake Union
Magnuson Park
Lincoln Park

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Dump, wimps, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA. 8/27/15

New punk legends wimps performing at the Bill & Melinda Gates Amphitheater in the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, Washington as part of the Seattle Art Museums's Summer At SAM series on August 27, 2015. Dump will be released on Kill Rock Stars fairly imminently. Video shot for Popthomology.

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Space Needle
An observation tower. Has 605 ft (184 m) high, 138 ft (42 m) wide, and weighs 9,550 tons. Built to withstand winds of up to 200 miles per hour (89 m/s) and earthquakes of up to 9.1 magnitude. Has 25 lightning rods.

Pike Place Market
A public market overlooking the Elliott Bay waterfront. Opened in 1907. One of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the US. Built on the edge of a steep hill, with several lower levels located below the main level.

Woodland Park Zoo
A zoological garden around the Phinney Ridge neighborhood. Includes 92 acres (37 ha) of exhibits and public spaces. It is open to the public daily. Included collections: 1,090 animal specimens, 300 animal species, 7,000 trees.

Seattle Aquarium
A public aquarium opened in 1977 and located on Pier 59 on the Elliott Bay waterfront. Exhibits: Window on Washington Waters, The Crashing Waves Exhibit, Life on the Edge, Life of a Drifter, Pacific Coral Reef, Ocean Oddities.

Kubota Garden
A 20 acre (81,000 m²) Japanese garden in the Rainier Beach neighborhood. A public park since 1987, it was started in 1927 by Fujitaro Kubota, a Japanese emigrant. Open to the public every day during daylight hours all year round.

Pacific Science Center
A science museum designed by Minoru Yamasaki for 1962 World’s Fair. Includes two IMAX theaters, one of the world's largest Laser Dome theaters, a tropical butterfly house, a planetarium, and hundreds of hands-on science exhibits.

Seattle Art Museum
Commonly known as SAM. Maintains three major facilities: main museum; the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM), and the Olympic Sculpture Park. Admission free to the sculpture park always and on the first Thursday of each month to the other.

Seattle Children's Museum
Located on the lowest floor of the Center House. Visitors to the main floor of the Center House can look down into a large open space in the floor which is part of the museum; this was once the site of the bubbleator.

Museum of Flight
A private non-profit air and space museum. The largest private air and space museum in the world. It is located at King County International Airport (Boeing Field), in the city of Tukwila.

SkyCity
Known as the Eye of the Needle, is a revolving restaurant situated atop the Space Needle. Features a 14-foot-deep (4.3 m) carousel (or ring-shaped) dining floor on which sit patrons' tables, chairs and dining booths.

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Seattle: Things to Do and Sightseeing Tours

Seattle things to do and sightseeing tours! I spend the day being a tourist in Seattle, Washington. In true Seattle travel fashion, we rode the ducks, took photos at Kerry Park (which is where you get amazing views of the Seattle skyline and the Space Needle), roamed the Olympic Sculpture Park downtown, and checked out the Ballard Locks as the sun was setting.

In this Seattle travel vlog, I share some things to do in Seattle, Washington if you're here for a day trip or you have a weekend in Seattle - including what to see, where to go, and some sightseeing places. I definitely recommend doing a sightseeing tour to cover more ground and get acquainted with the city

Is anyone else obsessed with the Seattle Space Needle? The longer I live in the city, the more it becomes a symbol and the more I feel pride in it!

Locations we visited in this Seattle travel vlog:
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Ballard Locks

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Visit Lake Union, Lake in Seattle, Washington, United States

Lake Union is a freshwater lake entirely within the Seattle, Washington city limits and a major portion of the Lake Washington Ship Canal. Its easternmost point is the Ship Canal Bridge, which carries Interstate 5 over the eastern arm of the lake and separates Lake Union from Portage Bay. Lake Union is the namesake of the neighborhoods located on its east and west shores: Eastlake and Westlake, respectively. The northern shore of the lake is home to Gas Works Park. Notable features of the southern portion of the lake—collectively known as the South Lake Union district—include Lake Union Park, Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI), and the Center for Wooden Boats. For more info, visit this link:

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Kerry Park - Seattle Washington

Description: This is a Video flight from Kerry Park on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle Washington. From this park is a great view of Seattle City Center featuring the famous Space needle. It was somewhat cloudy this day which made it hard to clearly see Mt Rainier off to the right of the Space Needle.

Visit Kerry Park, Seattle in Washington, United States

Kerry Park is a 1.26 acres (0.51 ha) park on the south slope of Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, Washington, located at the corner of 2nd Avenue W. and W. Highland Drive. According to a plaque on a wall in the park, Kerry Park [was] given to the City in 1927 by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sperry Kerry, Sr., so that all who stop here may enjoy this view. That view encompasses downtown Seattle, Elliott Bay, the West Seattle peninsula, Bainbridge Island, and Mount Rainier.[1]

The park is sometimes incorrectly referred to by local denizens as Highland Park, a reference to Highland Drive, a highly scenic boulevard that borders the north side of the park. For more info, visit this link:

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A June Visit to the Japanese Garden at Seattle's Washington Park Arboretum

Seattle has several notable Japanese gardens including Kubota Garden and the Bloedel Reserve. One of the best gardens is the Japanese Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum. I made this video from images I took from a June visit to the Garden.

Completed in 1960, this 3.5 acre sanctuary is a gorgeous place to walk and do photography. It features stone lanterns, bridges, waterfalls, pleasant walkways, a pond, and an authenic Japanese tea house.

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My trip to California and Washington State, USA from August to September 2017.

Every place featured in the video (chronological order): LAX, Anaheim, Disneyland Park, California Adventure Park, Long Beach, Catalina, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Santa Monica Pier & Venice Beach, Seattle, San Juan Islands & Friday Harbor, Pike Place Market, Olympic Sculpture Park, Alki Beach, Chihuly Garden and Glass, Occidental Square, Gas Works Park, train ride from Seattle to Oakland, Lombard Street, Fisherman's Wharf & Pier 39, Golden Gate Bridge, Painted ladies, Golden Gate Park, Pier 33 and San Francisco Bay.

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1. Grab lunch at Wayward Vegan Café.
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3. Grab a mid-afternoon snack at Mighty-O Donuts.
4. Visit Olympic Sculpture Park.
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Mark & Emily's Seattle Washington Olympic Sculpture Park Engagement Session

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