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Highway clunkers: the state's design ideas
Seattle's livability has been based on progress with restraint. It's questionable whether our two current mega-projects, the waterfront tunnel and a new Highway 520 bridge, embody either.

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Memo to Seattle: You have to play by the preservation rules!
The state heritage office issues a warning on allowing high-rises in Pioneer Square, and meanwhile the tunnel is caught in a legal conundrum.

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Icons we could do without
There are a number of Seattle landmarks I'd be happy to see disappear. Why not take a hammer to Hammering Man, or deport Lenin back to Russia?

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Seattle Center: How the city bulldozed history to create change
The creation of Seattle Center required the demolition of a historic, living neighborhood, but it also carried the seeds for a future urban ethic of preservation and reuse.