Olympic Sculpture Park

Seattle, Washington

Weiss/Manfredi

Three stretches enhanced by sculptures from the Seattle Art Museum descend along a Z-shaped path in this public park. The first stretch crosses a highway; the second, train tracks. The last traverses a 40-foot grade and transports visitors from urban Seattle to the newly restored beachfront that overlooks Elliot Bay. Before construction, 12,000 tons of contaminated soil from the former Union Oil of California site was removed. The remaining soil was capped with 200,000 cubic yards of clean fill, much of which came from the Seattle Art Museum’s expansion project.

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