The fjord at the new Nordic Museum in Seattle's Ballard may not have ocean water flowing through it, but still serves as a symbolic architectural focal point for the $45-million, 57,000-sq-ft building.
The start of construction on a new maintenance facility marks a major milestone for Sound Transit and the agency’s effort to extend light rail from Seattle to outlying communities.
The last of 1,152 precast road panels for the lower deck of Seattle’s SR 99 tunnel was set into place on March 27, completing the 1.7-mile tube’s double-decked roadways.
With the Seattle skyline and Mount Rainier as a backdrop, workers from Hoffman Construction install new glass panels on the iconic Space Needle’s observation deck.
Since the departure of the Sonics in 2008, the city has been working to bring back the National Basketball Association and attract a National Hockey League expansion team.
From now until Aug. 1, when the window again opens for in-water work, the main thrust of the Colman Dock replacement project moves away from driving steel piles to support the future passenger-only dock and toward construction of a new ferry terminal, the largest in the state.
No transformation has proven quite as dramatic as in Seattle where the two pits—one at the south end of the project and the other at the north end, near the Space Needle—will require full transformations to serve the needs of the double-decker tunnel roadway.
As we move closer to the 2019 milestone of opening the new State Route 99 tunnel under downtown Seattle, officials can start making plans for removal of the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct, the entire reason the new 1.7-mile tunnel was conceived originally.
