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Design Perspectives By Clair Enlow |
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June 25, 2008
Design Perspectives: Is the design for Civic Square tower special enough?
By CLAIR ENLOW
Special to the Journal
Special to the Journal
Robert Irwin’s artwork “Nine Spaces, Nine Trees” once stood next to the old Public Safety Building, which housed courts and detention facilities. The lush trees, centered within a grid of tall chain link fencing, seemed to represent nature itself — along with all things imprisoned.
The artwork now has a new home on the University of Washington campus, where it is on long-term loan from the city, and the Public Safety Building block is a hole in the ground. But 42 floors above the original site of Irwin’s work, trees may again serve a symbolic purpose, this time standing for sustainability.
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