Culture
Lake Union Park: a first look at its design
The $30 million park opened last weekend, and our critic finds it "simply stunning." It's a vast improvement on the sullen landscape of asphalt and dirt it replaces.
Mark Hinshaw
Mark Hinshaw, FAIA, is an architect and urban planner. He was an architecture critic for The Seattle Times and is the author of many articles and books, including Citistate Seattle (1999).
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Seattle's waterfront design team brings a bold vision
This may be a bit of a risk, but the selection means that the waterfront planning effort could get a valuable dose of quirkiness.
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Bellevue's Vision Line transit proposal has got it all wrong
It's got so many bad, anti-transit, anti-urban, anti-environmental ideas as to make it seem like a plot to discredit Sound Transit coming to the Eastside.