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News & ArtsTuesday, June 22, 2010
Visual Art The Historic INS Building Wakes Up Again
Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:20 PM
- Before it was largely administrative, this used to be a detainment center.
At least a few artists are in the building already and there has been one "open studio event," according to reports on the ground from the gallerist next door, Scott Lawrimore of Lawrimore Project.
Who are the artists? What's the rest of the design look like? How soon will it be finished? Stay tuned.
This is all it says on Anisoglu Associates's web site:
This project is the renovation of the Federal Immigration and Naturalization building in Seattle. Built in 1930, this building is on the National Register of Historic Places and is in the Mediterranean Revival Style. Working with the historic preservation guidelines, the building will be retrofitted for office use while telling the story of immigration in Seattle, and will be submitted for LEED certification.
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My partners and I just moved into this building. It's a wonderful space. I encourage other artists to check it out.
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I walk by that building every day, and have been wondering about what would come of it. It looks like it has excellent high ceilings, and would make a great little office space.
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At the risk of indelicacy: upon reading this article, I asked myself why this building would be on the National Register of Historic Places? To my eye, it is a handsome structure, but is it truly worthy of being called out for special designation?
No doubt it's beloved by its owners and occupants, but I've mourned the destruction of so many buildings possessing greater design and/or historic significance...it makes me wish these designations were harder to come by, and really had teeth when it came down to defying the wrecking ball.
All that said, I'd be delighted to hear from the owners/occupants about why this is a special building, so unlike others and so worthy of preservation while buildings by Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, César Pelli and others hang in the balance...
No doubt it's beloved by its owners and occupants, but I've mourned the destruction of so many buildings possessing greater design and/or historic significance...it makes me wish these designations were harder to come by, and really had teeth when it came down to defying the wrecking ball.
All that said, I'd be delighted to hear from the owners/occupants about why this is a special building, so unlike others and so worthy of preservation while buildings by Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, César Pelli and others hang in the balance...
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I'd like to see it knocked down in recognition of the untold misery so many men women and chilldren have expierienced within those four walls.
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I hear the plans to use this as a place to warehouse people who give aid and comfort to tea baggers have been put on hold for a while.
Face it, when we built these things here, nobody was thinking they'd be around next century. We all thought we'd be eating food pills, flying in hovercars, riding the monorail, and living in space pods.
Face it, when we built these things here, nobody was thinking they'd be around next century. We all thought we'd be eating food pills, flying in hovercars, riding the monorail, and living in space pods.
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Isn't one of the goals of historic preservation to preserve the stories contained within buildings, even those stories of misery, injustice, discrimination, et al so that they can serve as reminders and cautionary tales for the community? I hope that would be a part of the plan for this place.
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This building building was the last stop for Japanese Americans before the internment camps in the 1940s. Will that be part of "telling the story of immigration in Seattle?"
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