A switchback connecting the Pike Place Market to the Seattle Aquarium will be lined with climbable boulder gardens, play areas made of recycled Nike sneakers, porch swings suspended under glass awnings, rooftop cafes, and a swimming-pool barge off the pier, according to a flashy proposal (.pdf) presented last week to the Central Waterfront Committee Design Oversight Subcommittee.
- Waiting for Godot, circa 2020
The proposals are still "works in process," warns Waterfront Project Manager Steve Pearce, as they don't yet including funding strategies or an implementation plan.
Still: Swimming pool barge! That is a fine runner up to the pooh-pooh'd idea of public hot tubs. I mean, it's impossible not to get excited. Look at how happy all these fake children are!
- I like my children like I like my houses: prefabricated.
Pearce tells me that these ideas represent just 10 percent of the waterfront's redesign, which is being led by james corner field operations. Over the next couple of years, the team is scheduled to complete the design development, with an eye to starting construction in 2016.
