Originally built for the 1962 World Exposition, the 74-acre (30Ã, ha) Seattle Center is Seattle's art, education, tourism and entertainment center. Its main feature is the 605 foot (184 m) Space Needle, the now iconic building that, upon completion, is the tallest building on the west of the Mississippi River. Seattle Center is located north of Belltown in Uptown neighborhood.
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Overview
- Unrivaled, uniquely uniquely world-class, the 74-hectare Seattle Center campus (30 ha) offers 40 acres of open space. It provides homes for more than 30 cultural, educational and entertainment entities - and a stage for more than 16,000 activities and activities by 2016. Located in an urban center, the Center is run by the City department, also called the Seattle Center, which functions as a landlord, , developers, custodians, producers, promoters and partners. It provides rent space for the spectrum of commercial and community functions and serves as the city's largest concert concert venue. Seattle Center counts more than 2.2 million visitors by 2016, maintaining its position as the top tourist destination in the state (Puget Sound Business Journal Book of Lists).
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Attractions
- The International Fountain, located in the center of the campus, operates throughout the year. Built for the 1962 World Exhibition, the fountain was built as a modern water sculpture and was extensively refurbished in 1995. With over 20 spouts, the fountain passes programmable cycles of the shooting water pattern, accompanied by recorded world music. Music is changed twice a month, chosen to coordinate with water patterns and events at the center.
- Space Needle, an official city landmark, with an observation deck and a rotating restaurant
- Seattle Center Monorail terminus
- Seattle Center Armory (known as Center House from the early 1970s to 2012, and Food Circus from 1962 to the early 1970s) This includes the Center Theater, home to the Seattle Shakespeare Company and Book-It Repertory Theater, as well as the Museum Children, The Center High School and Interactive Entertainment Academy. Before the 1962 World Exposition, the building was an armory. Seattle Center Armory is an official city landmark.
- Pop Culture Museum (MoPOP, formerly the EMP Museum)
- Chihuly Gardens and Glasses
- The Fisher Pavilion at the Seattle Center is one of the largest on-site leases and the first City of Seattle building to earn LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. A large and flexible space can accommodate a variety of commercial, charitable, and community events.
- Kobe Bell, an official city landmark
- Mercer Arena, formerly a venue for sports, concerts, and operas before sitting out for several years, is currently being redeveloped as the home of Seattle Opera's future.
- Outdoor Mural amphitheater featuring mosaic mural by Paul Horiuchi: Mural Horiuchi, created for World's Fair, is an official city landmark.
- The Northwest Rooms, once a small conference center, is now home to the SIFF Film Center, The VERA Project, and KEXP 90.3 FM headquarters.
- Pacific Science Center, home of the IMAX Theater Boeing, PACCAR IMAX Theater (formerly Theater Eames IMAX), and Seattle Laser Dome
- Seattle Center Pavilion, adjacent to KeyArena, Pavilion accommodates all kinds of trade shows, meetings and community events.
- Seattle Center Skatepark aka Sea Sk8 Park, at the entrance at Thomas St. and 2nd Avenue N..
- A piece of the Berlin Wall stands inconspicuously at the Seattle Center Armory Food Atrium.
Public Programming
The Seattle Center hosts many cultural festivals, music and art. Major attractions include:
- Bumbershoot
- Seattle Center FestÃÆ'¡l, a series of 24 world cultural events throughout the year, the largest being Northwest Folklife
- PrideFest PrideFest
- Seattle Bites
- Winterfest PrideFest
- Official website
- Seattle Center Foundation
- Guide to the Seattle Center Annual Report 1966- (ongoing)
- Seattle Center Century 21 Committee
- "Seattle Center", p.Ã, 18-24 in the Survey Report: A Thorough Inventory of Historic Historic Resources, Seattle, Washington, Washington Department of the Environment (Seattle) Historic Preservation, offers a very detailed description of the building's history and yard.
Seattle PrideFest is the Official Gay Pride Official Festival held annually at the Seattle Center on Pride Weekend. The festival takes place on the last Sunday in June between 11 am and 7 pm. The event is used to take place in nearby Capitol Hill's Volunteer Park, but has grown on its residential location. It was decided to move the annual parade to downtown and the festival to the Seattle Center to better accommodate the ever-increasing presence. In 2007, Egan Orion of One Event Degree took over the Seattle Pride Festival just six weeks before the event was held to save the event and help preserve the move to the Center the previous year. 2008 has a record number at the Seattle Center with over 50,000 people attending on a 95-degree day in June, with over 100 vendors and dozens of sponsors participating.
Future plans
There is a long history of successive plans for Seattle Physical revision. Since Seattle City Council approved the Seattle Center Century 21 Master Plan in August 2008, it has effectively directed physical changes on a 74-hectare campus. The 20-year plan sets 10 planning and design principles to effectively guide rebuilding. The first completed projects are realized through an innovative mix of public and private funding. They include: Seattle Center Skate Park, Broad Street Green, Seattle Weapon Center (partly complete), Theater Commons, Chihuly Garden and Glass and Artist in Play. In the midst of the 20-year duration, the Master Plan is ready to respond to some significant external changes, in addition to exciting new opportunities on the ground, to continue the physical transformation at Seattle Center so that this unique urban campus can continue to accommodate the needs and desires of more community wide for many generations to come.
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