Category: Features

James Corner on Design, Scale, and Post-High-Line Life
Environment, Features, News

James Corner on Design, Scale, and Post-High-Line Life

This is what Friedman highlighted in Corner’s work in his introduction: the way Corner has found parallels between ecological process and infrastructure, the way his work generates a self-awareness in communities by making their patterns explicit. So when Corner talks about the juxtaposition of urbanism and nature, it’s not with the notion of any essential distinction: the urban has arisen from nature, from similar processes. Continue reading James Corner on Design, Scale, and Post-High-Line Life

Lessons From the Daisey Debacle, From Seattle Playwright Paul Mullin
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Lessons From the Daisey Debacle, From Seattle Playwright Paul Mullin

It certainly was exciting to watch “David” Mike take on “Goliath” Apple from the stage of my local regional theatre; and certainly my local regional theatre enjoys, along with regional theatres across the country, the imprimatur of international relevance when such a story as Agony/Ecstasy gets told. However, we lose a huge opportunity when our big houses keep mounting the very same one-man show, instead of staging local news that actually has as much, if not more, to do with the lives of local audiences as does Applegate. Continue reading Lessons From the Daisey Debacle, From Seattle Playwright Paul Mullin

What Lies Beneath? The Defunding of GeoMapNW
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What Lies Beneath? The Defunding of GeoMapNW

Before GeoMapNW began, the last soil maps for Seattle had been done in 1962: most of Interbay, downtown, and Sodo was a blank on those maps, even though those areas have just about the most unstable soils in the city. The value of the new mapping lies in both covering that unknown ground and in its establishment of finely detailed maps of areas that had been only roughly sketched by the earlier mapping projects.

GeoMapNW also revealed several valuable surprises. Continue reading What Lies Beneath? The Defunding of GeoMapNW

A “Frontier Ocean Post” Courtesy Cape Alava
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A “Frontier Ocean Post” Courtesy Cape Alava

Rainy season is still quality hiking, don’t let the fair-weathered fool you. Several of Washington’s best hikes are four-season accessible, most notably the coastal gems dotting Olympic National Park’s rugged Pacific boundary. Cape Alava, a frontier ocean post forged from glaciers, corrosive sea forces, and native history stands eerily at the westernmost point of the lower 48, on the edge of world. Continue reading A “Frontier Ocean Post” Courtesy Cape Alava

Where Seattleites Lived in 1859
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Where Seattleites Lived in 1859

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet, said someone, and we at The SunBreak want you to succeed. Thus, this map showing the names and locations of Seattle’s residents in 1859. It’s based on the recollections of an old-timer named Dillis B. Ward–newly available to the non-matriculated masses thanks to JStor’s recent grudging liberation of public domain content. So now, if you fall into a wormhole at 1st and Cherry, don’t say we didn’t tell you where the nearest 1859 hotel is. Continue reading Where Seattleites Lived in 1859