Seattle Center Area Photos

Seattle Center has nurtured a ring of upscale residences which defines the north end of downtown Seattle above Pikes Place Market up to Queen Anne Hill. The Space Needle is a good observation point.

See also: Seattle, Century 21 Exposition

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Downtown plus Qwest & Safeco sports facilities seen from Space Needle.	Highrise apartments against Seattle's waterfront peers from Space Needle.	View along Broad St. from Space Needle including Channel 7 TV station.	Piers 69 & 70 from Space Needle.

Fourth & Battery Building (1977) (14 floors) from Space Needle.	Seattle Heights condos (1993) (26 floors) (2610 2nd Ave.). Architect: Callison Architecture, Inc.	Residential area tucked between Seattle Center & Olympic Sculpture Park from Space Needle.	Seattle Post-Intelligencer Building (1986) (101 Elliott Ave. West) with its eagle atop a globe from Space Needle.

Key Arena & harbor west of Seattle Center from Space Needle.	Magnolia district hillside housing northwest of Seattle Center from Space Needle.	Queen Anne Hill residential neighborhood of Seattle from Space Needle.	Queen Anne High School (1909) (now condos) (201 Galer St.) north of Space Needle. On National Register.

KOMO News building with helicopter seen from Space Needle.	KOMO News in Fisher Plaza East (2000) (6 floors) (140 4th Ave. N). Architect: Lance Mueller & Assoc.	Fisher Plaza (2003) (6 floors) (100 Fourth Ave. North). Architect: Lance Mueller & Assoc.	Looking up Eagle St. from Olympic Sculpture Park to Space Needle.

Blue & pink industrial buildings overlooking Olympic Sculpture Park.	Residential buildings at south end of Olympic Sculpture Park.	Residential buildings near Seattle Olympic Sculpture Park.	Lenora St. facade of Cristalla (2005) (24 floors) (Second Ave. at Lenora). Architect: Weber + Thompson.

Terminal Sales Building (1925) (11 floors) (1932 1st Ave.). Architect: Henry Bittman.	Heritage buildings (1921 1st Ave.).	View from Olympic Sculpture Park to downtown Seattle along rail lands which Park now occupies.	View across Olympic Sculpture Park to upscale residential buildings around Seattle Center.

Olympic Sculpture Park with Paccar Pavilion & residential buildings beyond.	Sculptures against low rises around at Olympic Sculpture Park.	Bare metal tree sculpture of Olympic Sculpture Park overlooks vibrant area along Seattle's waterfront.	Two Union Square, & Westin Towers at sunset.