Olympic Sculpture Park
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- Seattle, USA
- Year
- 2007
Lead Designer
Site Design / Architecture
Weiss/Manfredi
Consultant Team
Structural and Civil Engineering Consultant
Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Landscape Architecture Consultant
Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture
Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Consultant
ABACUS Engineered Systems
Lighting Design Consultant
Brandston Partnership Inc.
General Contractor
Sellen Construction
Geotechnical Engineering Consultant
Hart Crowser
Environmental Consultant
Aspect Consulting
Aquatic Engineering Consultant
Anchor Environmental
Graphics Consultant
Pentagram
Security and AV/IT Consultant
ARUP
Catering and Food Service Consultant
Bon Appetit
Kitchen Consultant
JLR Design
Retail Consultant
Doyle + Associates
Project Management
Barrientos LLC
Olympic Sculpture Park is the winning design of an international competition.
Envisioned as a new model for an urban sculpture park, the project is located on a industrial site at the water’s edge. The design creates a continuous constructed landscape for art, forms an uninterrupted Z-shaped “green” platform, and descends 40 feet from the city to the water, capitalizing on views of the skyline and Elliot Bay and rising over the existing infrastructure to reconnect the urban core to the revitalized waterfront.
An exhibition pavilion provides space for art, performances and educational programming. From this pavilion, the pedestrian route descends to the water, linking three new archetypal landscapes of the northwest: a dense temperate evergreen forest, a deciduous forest and a shoreline garden. The design not only brings sculpture outside of the museum walls but brings the park itself into the landscape of the city.