Volunteer Park Conservatory, Building the Future (Part 1 of 3)

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Appearing in England towards the end of the Industrial Revolution (in the second quarter of the 19th Century), greenhouses were well poised to become an architectural representative of the Victorian Age’s zeitgeist; for greenhouses were not only the material manifestations of the revolution (beginning prior to Queen Victoria’s reign) in their use of iron and glass, but also reflective of the revolutions in the fields of science, economics, including the social mobility of the newly emerging middle class all creating demands for new types of urban and architectural spaces in which to spend the leisure time resulting from industrialization and its resulting new prosperity.

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National Parking Day Capitol Hill

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[caption id="attachment_315" align="alignleft" width="700" caption="1720 12th Ave Seattle"][/caption] Below are some images of our set up for our National Park(ing) Day event. Much thanks to Ragen & Associates for the potted plants and labor http://www.ragenassociates.com/ and People's Republic of Koffee http://www.yelp.com/biz/peoples-republic-of-koffee-seattle for the loaning us their picnic benches.  Stop by to eat your lunch, have a cup of coffee, and enjoy our park for the day!

For images of what others did around the nation, visit http://parkingday.org/success-parking-day-2010/.

Some press about the day:  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003895582_webparks21m.html

http://mynorthwest.com/category/local_news_articles/20100917/Park(ing)-day-makes-alternative-use-of-spaces/

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Seattle-parking-spaces-turned-into-mini-parks-today-103135239.html

http://www.publicola.net/2010/09/17/parking-day-parks-reclaim-seattle-streets/

http://mayormcginn.seattle.gov/parking-day/

http://seattletransitblog.com/2010/09/17/today-is-parking-day/

http://jackseattle.radio.com/2010/09/16/parking-day-in-seattle/

http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-091809-parkday,0,5093038.story

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/09/why_it_was_so_damn_hard_to_fin.php

http://www.westseattleherald.com/2010/09/17/news/parking-day-today-see-it-junction

http://westseattleblog.com/2010/09/parking-day-west-seattle-free-speech-garden-in-the-junction

http://www.centraldistrictnews.com/2010/09/16/parking-day-on-hiawatha-place-jackson-place-neighborhood

http://sdotblog.seattle.gov/2010/09/17/its-parking-day/

http://seattlebikeblog.com/2010/09/17/stop-riding-with-a-squeaky-bike-come-by-the-peoples-parking-lot/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/espressobuzz/sets/72157624977661146/

http://www.djc.com/news/en/12021889.html

Seattle Central Waterfront Lead Designer

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In an unprecedented move, the city will choose the design team first, who will then go on to choose the engineering team – a reversal in large infrastructure projects where it is the prime (engineer), who leads the efforts and therefore chooses the design consultants.

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