‘hood context

Monday, November 26, 2007 | posted by dan bertolet | 4 comments

What Seattle neighborhood is home to this beauty?

Posted by dan bertolet on Monday, November 26th, 2007 at 11:10 pm. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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4 Responses to “‘hood context”

  1. michael November 27th, 2007 at 8:55 am

    That’s my hood!!!
    I kind of like how it glistens in the sun and the green tiles contrast with the fall foliage…

  2. kkurmudgeon November 28th, 2007 at 12:06 pm

    Hell on Earth, or is this Overland Park, Kansas, or both?

  3. Phil McCrakin November 28th, 2007 at 1:50 pm

    “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”

  4. michael November 30th, 2007 at 1:09 pm

    It’s interesting how we all have individual notions of neighborhood context and aesthetics, and how this affects our work in the planning and design world. Of course it is always helpful to know what specifically turns people on or off. Snarky comments and quotes only get you so far.

    I live very close to the Seattle Vocational School (pictured above), and it took me a while before I even noticed this building. It sits in a topographical depression across the street from Washington Middle School. What is the context here? Commercial (23rd Ave, Franz bakery) and Institutional development immediately nearby, and some residential to the north fairly well buffered by mature trees and vegetation. It may be offensive to some, but for me it sort of conjures images of seawater and blends nicely with gray skies.

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