Still Here

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Elliott Bay Cafe remains in situ despite the departure to new digs in Capitol Hill of the world famous Elliott Bay Book Company upstairs. "EBC still open here" read the signs in the window at street level. Check out Chuck's fine photos of Elliott Bay Book Company's grand opening in CH here. Elliott Bay Cafe, the below-street-level cafe under the bookstore that inspired the set for the Frasier TV series' "Cafe Nervosa" continues on just below the sidewalk. So if you're jonesing for caffeine or craving a delicious lunch while in the Pioneer Square area, your old fix is still available.

 

Still Here

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Elliott Bay Cafe remains in situ despite the departure to new digs in Capitol Hill of the world famous Elliott Bay Book Company upstairs. "EBC still open here" read the signs in the window at street level. Check out Chuck's fine photos of Elliott Bay Book Company's grand opening in CH here. Elliott Bay Cafe, the below-street-level cafe under the bookstore that inspired the set for the Frasier TV series' "Cafe Nervosa" continues on just below the sidewalk. So if you're jonesing for caffeine or craving a delicious lunch while in the Pioneer Square area, your old fix is still available.

 

First Phase Complete

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Wow. I hadn't planned on posting another photo of this, but since every commenter yesterday panned the architecture of the unfinished buildings of the new Amazon.com campus in the Cascade / South Lake Union neighborhood, I thought it only fair to show a shot of one of the finished buildings in the development. Perhaps when the detail work is complete on all the buildings the design will not seem as severely lacking as the impression you got from the distance photos of the partially constructed structures. Then again. . . :-). You like the dog, right? The dog's cute. Admit it! :-).

This is a west elevation along Terry Street and the pedestrian is crossing over the streetcar tracks. Thanks to Joshua for this link which explains the architect's intention for the buildings to imitate the feel of an historic warehouse being preserved across Terry Street. We continue today and tomorrow with clear blue skies and 75 F temps. Hope you are having an equally fine start to a lovely weekend.

First Phase Complete

Photo & Text Copyright 2010 Seattle Daily Photo. All rights reserved, including reproduction or republishing.

Wow. I hadn't planned on posting another photo of this, but since every commenter yesterday panned the architecture of the unfinished buildings of the new Amazon.com campus in the Cascade / South Lake Union neighborhood, I thought it only fair to show a shot of one of the finished buildings in the development. Perhaps when the detail work is complete on all the buildings the design will not seem as severely lacking as the impression you got from the distance photos of the partially constructed structures. Then again. . . :-). You like the dog, right? The dog's cute. Admit it! :-).

This is a west elevation along Terry Street and the pedestrian is crossing over the streetcar tracks. Thanks to Joshua for this link which explains the architect's intention for the buildings to imitate the feel of an historic warehouse being preserved across Terry Street. We continue today and tomorrow with clear blue skies and 75 F temps. Hope you are having an equally fine start to a lovely weekend.

Amazon.com Starting to Move Into New Global Headquarters

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As promised, here are photos of the many buildings under construction for the new headquarters of the giant online purveyor of nearly everything, Amazon.com. The 11 building campus is taking shape along four blocks in the South Lake Union / Cascade neighborhood. The neighborhood's skyline has developed rapidly in the the past few years with the vision of developing it as a hub for biomedical research and internet technology industries. Amazon.com developed a highly successful system for electronic retail purchasing and direct shipping that is used by many retailers.

The campus is on the two year old Seattle Streetcar route and faces Lake Union Park (under final stages of development to the left in this image), the Center for Wooden Boats and the Navel Reserve Building seen in the foreground of this image I took of earlier progress on the Amazon campus. 
The top photo below shows the northernmost buildings of the campus, and the next photo shows the buildings going up on the blocks south of that. The final shot shows the other side of the buildings in yesterday's photo. Amazon.com is a major employer in Seattle and began last month to move workers into the three buildings of the completed first phase of the campus on Terry Street (here's local neighborhood coverage and a photo of the public plaza and tile art by local artist Ann Gardner). The completed phase is visible in the foreground of the second photo below. As the next two phases are completed I imagine all of Amazon's  Seattle workforce will leave their leased spaces in Beacon Hill and the International District and elsewhere will move to the new global headquarters, slated to have phase 3 completed in 2013.

Amazon.com Starting to Move Into New Global Headquarters

Photo & Text Copyright 2009 Seattle Daily Photo. All rights reserved, including reproduction or republishing.

As promised, here are photos of the many buildings under construction for the new headquarters of the giant online purveyor of nearly everything, Amazon.com. The 11 building campus is taking shape along four blocks in the South Lake Union / Cascade neighborhood. The neighborhood's skyline has developed rapidly in the the past few years with the vision of developing it as a hub for biomedical research and internet technology industries. Amazon.com developed a highly successful system for electronic retail purchasing and direct shipping that is used by many retailers.

The campus is on the two year old Seattle Streetcar route and faces Lake Union Park (under final stages of development to the left in this image), the Center for Wooden Boats and the Navel Reserve Building seen in the foreground of this image I took of earlier progress on the Amazon campus. 
The top photo below shows the northernmost buildings of the campus, and the next photo shows the buildings going up on the blocks south of that. The final shot shows the other side of the buildings in yesterday's photo. Amazon.com is a major employer in Seattle and began last month to move workers into the three buildings of the completed first phase of the campus on Terry Street (here's local neighborhood coverage and a photo of the public plaza and tile art by local artist Ann Gardner). The completed phase is visible in the foreground of the second photo below. As the next two phases are completed I imagine all of Amazon's  Seattle workforce will leave their leased spaces in Beacon Hill and the International District and elsewhere will move to the new global headquarters, slated to have phase 3 completed in 2013.

iPhone Wednesday # 43: Amazon Rising

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A few weeks ago I showed you a distance shot of South Lake Union from Gas Works Park to the north in which you could see some of the giant new campus of Amazon.com being erected which spans four city blocks. Here is a closer look at some of the multiple buildings in this project as seen from the south. I took this with my iPhone, and tomorrow I'll show you some shots of the entire site I took with my real camera :-) and a long lens from a nearby hill to give you an overview of the entire campus and its various stages of completion to date. as you can see, it was blue skies with clouds yesterday and nearly 70 F.

It's my iPhone Wednesday shot for you where the image and any editing is done all in the iPhone using one or more available apps.