Enormous Stained Glass Work

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Dick Weiss, a renown Pacific Northwest stained glass artist who has been on faculty at famed Pilchuck Glass School, was commissioned to create this multistory curved art window installed at the pedestrian entrance of Seattle Center's new grass-roofed green parking structure, built as the first phase of the Bill & Milinda Gates Foundation headquarters project across from Seattle Center. The colors and workmanship on this huge work are phenomenal, and very striking at night (another view here). I learned that the green grass roof on this multistory parking structure is the largest of its kind in Seattle. The Gates Foundation campus under construction on the adjoining lot is targeting LEED Gold standard when completed in 2011.