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This 1996 map of the Pioneer Square-Skid Road Historic District shows the location of the Kingdome (at the lower right in the map). The Kingdome (officially the King County Stadium) [4] [note 1] was a multi-purpose stadium located in the Industrial District (later SoDo) [7] neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.
The firm has claimed world records for a series of 1998 projects: The June 23 demolition of the 1,201-foot-high Omega Radio Tower in Trelew, Argentina, "the tallest manmade structure ever felled with explosives"; The August 16 implosion of the 17-building Villa Panamericana and Las Orquideas public housing complex in San Juan, Puerto Rico, "the most buildings shot in a single implosion ...
A floor-by-floor demolition of the McGuire Apartments building, as opposed to the implosion method used for Seattle's Kingdome in 2000, [8] was approved by the City of Seattle in March 2011. [9] Contractor Lease Crutcher Lewis began salvage and demolition work on April 4, 2011, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] with the garage leveled beginning the following month ...
The complex will house a condominium, a hotel, a museum, a hangar, a water park, a commercial center, and an administration complex. [ 1 ] The King Dome itself will be bigger than the 55,000-capacity Philippine Arena , [ 1 ] with the King Dome having a capacity of 75,000, [ 6 ] making it the largest indoor arena in the world .
Stadium Place, also known as the North Lot Development, is a mixed-use development project in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, replacing a parking lot north of Lumen Field. The first phase of the project, located on the west side of 2nd Avenue South, was completed in 2014 and consists of The Wave , a 26-story residential ...
Joseph Lister Holmes (July 6, 1891 – July 18, 1986) was an American architect active in Seattle.After studying Beaux-Arts architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1910s, he worked at various architectural firms in Philadelphia, Montana, and Seattle before founding a private practice in 1922.
By the end of the 1920s building boom, several new Art Deco high-rises above 200 feet (61 m) were completed in Seattle, including the Medical Dental Building (1925), Seattle Tower (1930), Roosevelt Hotel (1929), Washington Athletic Club (1930), Textile Tower Building (1930), Harborview Medical Center (1931), and Pacific Tower (1933).
The construction of Interstate 5 through the neighborhood in the 1960s and the Kingdome nearby in 1976 led to further strain on the area. The Seattle Chinatown Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The area was named the "International District" by the city government since the mid-20th century, but ...