Communications

Where the Street Ends University of Washington “Water is a place”—a clear statement that dance of ways to access the waterfront, including soft native eddies next to industrial harbors and hidden beaches just down from the sculpture park. Lily Daniels, Associate ASLA, has visited every single one, developing a kit-of-parts plan to improve these spaces, while surveying landscape conditions and cultural geography. The resulting strategies are carefully attuned to the unique conditions of Seattle’s lakes, rivers, and oceanfront. There are oyster breakwaters in Puget Sound, rain gardens at the terminus of the industrialized Duwamish River, and underwater habitats for migrating salmon suspended from floating decking islands. This project works across the dual axes of ecology and culture, where each set of improvements responds to the need to support living systems animating the…