WEST GALER
West Galer Street Fly Over at Elliott Way
1999-2002, Seattle, WA
Vicki Scuri SiteWorks with CH2MHill Engineers, HNTB Engineers, Mark Spitzer Designs, and Hough Beck & Baird
Sponsored by City of Seattle: SeaTrans and The Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs
This project includes a Public Art & Urban Design Master
Plan for the Bridge. A menu of opportunities was documented and
budgeted. Of eight proposed projects, two were implemented: The Sail
Light Armatures and the DNA Wave Patterns for the MSE walls. The Sail
Light Armatures mark the west end of the project nearest the beach.
Combining sail imagery with the industrial character of the Port site;
they provide highway scaled markers with implied canopies providing
human-scale for pedestrians. Functionally they provide roadway lighting
up-lighted as sculpture. The DNA Wave Patterns add pattern and scale to
the MSE walls pattern wrapping the ramp along the pedestrian path and
bicycle trail. Landscape patterning plays against the concrete pattern
work juxtaposing plant forms and seasonal color. The walls vary in height
from 2'-25'. The DNA Wave Patterns reference the major economic anchor
of the site: the New Immunex Campus.
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