5/28/2023 0 Comments Seattle light rail stations![]() And at the Northgate station, longtime Seattle artist Mary Ann Peters created “ Darner’s Prism,” a glass-paned paean to the official Washington state insect, the green darner dragonfly. ![]() At the Roosevelt station, Italy-born, New York-based Luca Buvoli contributed “ Mo-Mo-Motion,” a zooming series of abstracted bike-racing and running imagery. (For more 19th century hopes for the city, read Crosscut contributor Taha Ebrahimi’s recent story about a new exhibit of early promotional maps made to lure settlers to the Northwest.)īut back to the new light rail art. ![]() Some 125 years later, this new rail station opens right onto Brooklyn Ave. Moore’s plan for a bustling “Brooklyn” was foiled by an 1895 infrastructure project, when David Denny put tracks for the new electric trolley line down University Way instead of Brooklyn Avenue. ![]() “Beautiful residences were being built by some of the best people in the city,” Moore claimed, sounding like a certain ex-president. In 1890, developer James Moore dubbed the area Brooklyn, in homage to New York City. Called “Fragment Brooklyn,” the 300-foot-long piece is a nod to University District history. This misplaced urban streetscape was created (using metal mesh sculpture and video installations) by Seattle-based Lead Pencil Studio, aka Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo. While waiting on the platform, 85 feet beneath street level, you’ll also notice a curious sight: what appear to be apartment windows, some with air conditioning units, and people moving behind them.ĪrtSEA: Notes on Northwest Culture is Crosscut’s weekly arts & culture newsletter. ![]() In addition to bringing visual splash, LMN designed the lightning bolts of color help riders distinguish northbound and southbound trains. The first stop on the new extension is the U District station, designed by local LMN Architects and featuring big, zigzagging overhead tubes in blue and orange. ![]()
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