Charles, you really need to move.

This place is clearly not right for you.

A freakish 'precious-object' building can be civilized if its architect deals with how it meets the sidewalk.

The problems with photos like this one is that we really have no idea what is happening at the structure's base. The discussion proceeds -- "Ooh!" and "Ahh!" -- as if the object is floating in space with no relation to the city surrounding it.

This one may be great or it may be terrible. Can't really say for sure from this photo, though its apparent isolation is not a good sign.

It looks like a big bong!

The Stranger fought hard to save Pike Place Market, and made The Town Hall what it is today. If it wasn't for The Stranger downtown would have even more high buildings.

The Stranger has been a strong voice in preserving Seattle's past, we're lucky to have Charles writing about architecture in Seattle. It'll help make Seattle the world class city it can become.

I hope you won't take this the wrong way, but, Mr. Mudede, you are such a nerd. And I love you for it!

It looks like Paradise at Mt. Rainier, only more communist. You should get a car and go (to Rainier, not to China).

Dear Preservation:

Bullshit.

I assume Preservation is joking. The Stranger was launched in 1991. The Pike Place Market saving was 1970.

Or is Preservation talking about the time when that New York firm tried to take over the market in the early '90s?

I think it looks like the Johnson Wax Pavillion at the 1964 NY World's Fair.

That is crazy beautiful.

looks like the airport with trees.

Can we get a bigger version of the picture?

It's pretty cool-as is Berlin's--but Charles cannot fairly compare railroad stations in cities with 6 MILLION plus people to a town with 570,000 people.

We're a small town comparatively, and will always be. Get used to it.

when i visited linz (pop 200,000) austria in the late 90s, i was impressed to see that its streets were very active, it had a light rail system, and more bold buildings than seattle (pop 570,000). please, don't bring up size. even portland has a more aggressive public transportation program than seattle.

Here's an overhead shot
http://62.233.40.83/0/06/95/30/chronique-3/3h-south-railway-station-shanghai-2.jpg

Again, you're comparing Seattle to a city that's existed since Roman times, was a Hapsburg throne, and a major industrial hub that was extensively bombed in WWII--the infrastructure, as well as real estate was there.

P.S. I thought the Stranger didn't like Sound Transit?

It reminds me of one of the east coast airports, JFK before the retrofit? or was it Newark?...if they had trees, or a pretty walkway leading up to it.

Americans notoriously despise modernist buildings. I don't know why; you'd think a society that still considers itself a world industrial and technological superpower would want to embrace the accompanying modern designs.

The fact that Asia (and Europe and elsewhere) are sprouting ur-modernist structures on a grand scale compared to the U.S. (for whom a simple glass facade is only a recently accepted modernist device) reflects that Asia (and Europe, etc.) are the ones really taking off into the future, while American conservatism and small-town prominence is slowing down.

for a city of 10,000,000 (shanghai), that seems about the right size train station.

Is anyone else moved to get a portable keyboard and start playing that five-note tune from Close Encounters?

...what's that you say? it's just me? Well, shit.

Nooooo, but. . .

. . .Charles has been building train stations out of his mashed potatos for a couple days now.

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