Olympic Sculpture Park

It’s become almost routine for new art museums to be criticized for being so powerful architecturally that they threaten to overwhelm their art. The same might be said of the Olympic Sculpture Park, except that here the aesthetic competition isn’t so much the man-made elements (a... [More]

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Roland Terry: 1917 - 2006

On June 10th, the Seattle Times ran a story in their Real Estate section about the Mount Vernon home of legendary Northwest architect Roland Terry. Terry, the paper said, would be moving to an assisted care facility and his longtime friend, Abdel Ageep, would be putting the property up for ... [More]

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Zaha Hadid selected for architecture prize; Her recent scultpural work on the rocks at Finland's snow show

Today, Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid was selected to receive the esteemed Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2004. Hadid, 53, is the first woman to be honored with the Pritzker in its 25-year history, which will be awarded at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia, in May. Currently... [More]

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