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Works in Progress
High Point Natural Drainage System/High Point Housing
32nd Avenue SW and SW Morgan Street West Seattle
Artist: Bruce Myers
2005
Bruce Myers worked with the design team to create artworks that reinforce the use of Seattle Public Utilities’ natural drainage systems throughout the entire new housing development. The artist has designed castings for drainage inlets, story pole attachments, splashblocks and seating boulders, all depicting natural and water imagery. He also designed sidewalk treatments showing radiating water rings and a sculpture abstractly referencing marine life.
Ravenna Creek Daylighting Artwork
25th Avenue NE from NE 55th Street to NE 45th Street, Ravenna
Artist: Mark Brest van Kempen
2006
The artist memorializes the existence of Ravenna Creek, daylighted in Ravenna Park and running under 25th Avenue NE, through a series of interventions that mark the presence of the creek within a culverted facility maintained by Seattle Public Utilities. For this joint project, involving Seattle Parks and Recreation and Metro/King County Drainage and Wastewater, the artist will create an outfall structure into which the creek enters the Ravenna Creek pipeline, sidewalk insets spelling out Ravenna Creek, a blue line demarcating the location of the pipe under the sidewalk and three vaults that permit the viewer to see the creek beneath the sidewalk. This project is partially funded by SPU.
Joint Training Facility
9000 Olson Place SW, South Park
Artist: Roberto Rovira
2006
Roberto Rovira uses the form of a water pipe to create a viewpoint that will overlook this major training facility used by Seattle Public Utilities employees as well as City transportation workers and firefighters. The facility design has been conceived to minimize impermeable surfaces, recapture water and features sustainable design consistent with SPU’s environmental programs. The artwork reflects the facility’s sustainable design and honors the work of the trainees. This project is partially funded by SPU.
SPU Operations and Control Center
2700 Airport Way S, SODO
Artist: Max Keene
2006
Seattle Public Utilities’ Operations branch is headquartered at the Operations Control Center, where artist Max Keene is creating an interactive light-based artwork for public and employee areas. As employees pass under a ceiling-mounted installation, lights trace their movement along the undulating form implying the flow and environment of water.
Sand Point Calibration Baseline Artwork
Sandpoint Way NE and NE 65th Street, Magnusson Park
Artist: Perri Lynch
2006
Perri Lynch has been commissioned to develop an artwork that marks the calibration baseline, a public amenity utilized by public and private sector surveying, engineering, public safety, law enforcement, transportation and scientific communities to verify the accuracy of and to calibrate their electronic distance measurement (EDM) equipment. The baseline is extensively used by Seattle Public Utilities throughout the year to calibrate their equipment and is essential for SPU to deliver their services in a cost effective manner. The artwork will educate the public about this facility that is essential to SPU’s providing services.
Surge/Northgate Project/Thornton Creek Water Quality Channel
5th Avenue NE and NE 100th Street, Northgate
Artist: Benson Shaw
2007
Benson Shaw, who developed an art plan for the Northgate area, will be developing a project in conjunction with Seattle Public Utilities’ Thornton Creek Water Quality Channel project to address water quality and storm attenuation in Thornton Creek watershed. His artwork will further the viewer’s understanding of the water cleansing process that occurs at this site with art elements that announce the site and its functions, and surface treatments that highlight the purpose of the channel and ideas of falling, detained and flowing water. The artwork will place the water channel within the site’s greater environmental and cultural context.
Beacon Reservoir/Jefferson Park
15th Avenue S and Spokane Street S, Beacon Hill
Artist: Elizabeth Conner
2007
Artist Elizabeth Conner is developing a project to be located on the space created when the Beacon Reservoir, a Seattle Public Utilities water supply facility, is covered. This project is partially funded by SPU.
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