Olympic Sculpture Park | Seattle Art Museum
Client
Seattle Art Museum
Size
9 acres
Collaborators
Weiss/Manfredi Architects
Magnusson Klemencic Associates
ULI Amanda Burden Urban Open Space Award - Finalist
EDRA/Places Awards (Environmental Design Research Association) 2008
Design Awards 2008: Best Cultural Space - Travel + Leisure
ASLA Honor Award - American Society of Landscape Architects
Olympic Sculpture Park Limited International Competition Winner - Seattle Art Museum + National Endowment for the Arts
International Urban Landscape Award, Finalist - Topos, A+W, Eurohypo
Seattle, Washington
Charles Anderson, FASLA, collaborated on the site master planning and landscape architecture for this project prior to his collaboration with Confluence.
The Gardens of the Olympic Sculpture Park are the clothing that dresses the remnants of an abandoned fuel storage site. The park is comprised of a series of gardens, all distinctive prototypical landscapes of a “mountain to shore” narrative: The Valley, The Greensward, The Grove, The Meadows, The Shore, and The Tides.
Each garden evokes the feeling of an iconic landscape of Western Washington, while providing unique settings for sculpture, from large works to subtle time-based pieces. These sculptures on Seattle's waterfront overlook the Salish Sea, and are located about one mile north of the Museum property.
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