The downtown Sheraton has finally done something about its forbidding blank walls, using big mirrors to "borrow" the attractive architecture of ACT across the street. Plus one great big flower pot. It doesn't really add up.
Bothell is the latest to get the bug, joining Bellingham, Bremerton, Kirkland, and Port Angeles in creating "collective living rooms" on the shoreline. Seattle remains an embarrassing laggard.
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.
This may be a bit of a risk, but the selection means that the waterfront planning effort could get a valuable dose of quirkiness.
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.
