Marques Vickers

Downtown Seattle: The Contemporary Skyline (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edition is an ongoing architectural pictorial survey of the contemporary Seattle core skyline. Documenting the city's explosive growth downtown, the profiling images capture the elevated monoliths of the city's urban expansion. Photographed between 2016-2023, the edition traces over 150 commercial development projects from a variety of completion stages and perspective angles.

The heightening of the downtown Seattle skyline up mirrors the prosperity and expansion of the high technology and bio-med business center. The effects of the 2020-21 pandemic modestly slowed the construction pace, as projects had been designed and approved years earlier. The aggressive growth trend raises questions over the potential oversaturation of available office and residential space. With the nature of commercial and remote employment evolving, can the occupancy rates maintain the financial equilibrium necessary the keep these projects solvent and profitable? The contemporary project designs are primarily compositions of steel, glass, and concrete creating innovate structural geometry and exterior skins.

Historically, the Seattle regional economy was dependant on the Boeing Corporation and later Microsoft and Amazon as its most visible commercial institutions. Broader tech growth has accelerated the demands for office space, parking, residential housing and transportation solutions. Aggressive development has resulted in soaring rents, traffic congestion and extreme gridlock. The new normal will continue to address these challenges.

The city of Seattle appears to be playing infrastructure catch-up. Numerous additional developments under construction and in the planning stages will test the resiliency of the boom era. Optimistic visions towards a vibrant downtown core continue forward. With each subsequent monolith, Seattle solidifies its claim as a building showcase of twenty-first century architecture design, credibility, and stature.

Growth has remained an insatiable surge for the high technology industry to maintain its frenetic pace. Perhaps soon, Seattle and such a volatile industry will arrive at a crossroad where sustaining such expansion becomes problematic and difficult to sustain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Marques Vickers
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005574642
• Artikelnr.: 69986806

Autorenporträt

Visual Artist, Writer and Photographer Marques Vickers is a California native presently living in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle, Washington regions.

He was born in 1957 and raised in Vallejo, California. He is a 1979 Business Administration graduate from Azusa Pacific University in the Los Angeles area. Following graduation, he became the Public Relations and ultimately Executive Director of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce between 1979-84. He subsequently became the Vice President of Sales for AsTRA Tours and Travel in Westwood between 1984-86.

Following a one-year residence in Dijon, France where he studied at the University of Bourgogne, he began Marquis Enterprises in 1987. His company operations have included sports apparel exporting, travel and tour operations, wine brokering, publishing, rare book and collectibles reselling. He has established numerous e-commerce, barter exchange and art websites including MarquesV.com, ArtsInAmerica.com, InsiderSeriesBooks.com, DiscountVintages.com and WineScalper.com.

Between 2005-2009, he relocated to the Languedoc region of southern France. He concentrated on his painting and sculptural work while restoring two 19th century stone village residences. His figurative painting, photography and sculptural works have been sold and exhibited internationally since 1986. He re-established his Pacific Coast residence in 2009 and has focused his creative productivity on writing and photography.

His published works span a diverse variety of subjects including true crime, international travel, California wines, architecture, history, Southern France, Pacific Coast attractions, fiction, auctions, fine art marketing, poetry, fiction and photojournalism.

He has two daughters, Charline and Caroline who presently reside in Europe.