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.

iPhone Wednesday # 43: Amazon Rising

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

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.

Spring Needle & 9 Year Old McGwire Highrise Teardown

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Spring blossoms continue to grace nearly every scene in Seattle, despite cooler temps and mostly cloudy skies. I took this shot including the Space Needle from Bhy Kracke Park. I wanted to show you the 25 story apartment building to the far left which is swaddled head to toe with scaffolding. It is the 9 year old McGuire Apartments in Belltown, and unbelievably was found to have such severe deterioration that it has been deemed unrepairable and is slated for demolition due to construction materials defects. My heart goes out to the many floors of residents who must relocate, and to the businesses which lease space there. This is a highly unusual occurrence and it makes my head spin just to think of the lawsuits involving contractors and subcontractors who worked on this project and the many years it will take to process all the levels of loss on a fiasco like this. I am wishing everyone involved well, and just can't imagine the enormity of the situation. I'm hoping the many other Belltown developments that have shot up in the last decade are not subject to similar bad news.

Spring Needle & 9 Year Old McGwire Highrise Teardown

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

Spring blossoms continue to grace nearly every scene in Seattle, despite cooler temps and mostly cloudy skies. I took this shot including the Space Needle from Bhy Kracke Park. I wanted to show you the 25 story apartment building to the far left which is swaddled head to toe with scaffolding. It is the 9 year old McGuire Apartments in Belltown, and unbelievably was found to have such severe deterioration that it has been deemed unrepairable and is slated for demolition due to construction materials defects. My heart goes out to the many floors of residents who must relocate, and to the businesses which lease space there. This is a highly unusual occurrence and it makes my head spin just to think of the lawsuits involving contractors and subcontractors who worked on this project and the many years it will take to process all the levels of loss on a fiasco like this. I am wishing everyone involved well, and just can't imagine the enormity of the situation. I'm hoping the many other Belltown developments that have shot up in the last decade are not subject to similar bad news.

Shiny Even When the Sun Isn't

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A trio of Seattle's taller glass building facades reflect the cloud-filled skies and buildings about them. The Russell Investments Center/Museum Plaza is the tallest one to the left (formerly Washington Mutual Center), 1521 Second Avenue in the center of the shiny trio, completed just two years ago, and the angled dark twins lovingly known by locals as the Darth Vader Building is officially called the Fourth and Blanchard Building.

Shiny Even When the Sun Isn't

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

A trio of Seattle's taller glass building facades reflect the cloud-filled skies and buildings about them. The Russell Investments Center/Museum Plaza is the tallest one to the left (formerly Washington Mutual Center), 1521 Second Avenue in the center of the shiny trio, completed just two years ago, and the angled dark twins lovingly known by locals as the Darth Vader Building is officially called the Fourth and Blanchard Building.

Sunday Bridge Series # 6: Bridge of Gardens

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No, this isn't Seattle :-).  Here's a little travel postcard for you from Southern California where I'm on holiday with family. My daughter and I got to spend a rare couple of hours shopping together and I thought you might like to see this dramatic pedestrian bridge which curves high above street level at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa. This is the Bridge of Gardens and, as the name indicates, there is an abundance of vegetation growing along the long and graceful expanse. This bright bouganvilla along the exterior is the same color as the one my mom trained to grow over the arbor leading to my childhood home's front door, and the green box hedge growing just inside the railings (can you see it?) is the same as the hedge mom planted around the perimeter of the front yard. Fun to see them translated for use in this space. I am wishing all the moms out there a very happy Mother's Day today, and to everyone lots of lovely recollections of happy times spent with your moms. To see all the participants in Louis la Vache's Sunday Bridge Series, click here.