Seattle Should Build a Model of Itself in The Pit and Let It Decay

I wrote this in The Stranger nearly 20 years ago: “…Seattle has three buildings by famous contemporary architects: Seattle Art Museum (Robert Venturi), Experience Music Project (Frank Gehry), and Seattle Central Library (Rem Koolhaas). In 2011, this small list will be increased by one with the completion of a skyscraper at 601 Fourth Avenue… [Its architect] Norman Foster.” The building did not materialize. Nor did the one that was planned during the second half of the