Design and Architecture
How Amazon changed Seattle, Lawrence Halprin
The deadline is this week for cities to bid to host Amazon's second headquarters, or HQ2. What can Seattle teach those cities about becoming Amazon's company town? And the late landscape architect Lawrence Halprin saw gardens through the lens of dance. Los Angeles right now is paying tribute to the visionary designer of modernist parks and plazas.
By Frances Anderton • • 28m ListenPhoto: Dancers with Heidi Duckler Dance Theater, rehearsing in Maguire Gardens at LA Central Library, designed by Lawrence Halprin. (Avishay Artsy)
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2 storiesHow Amazon changed Seattle
Amazon’s headquarters in downtown Seattle Photo by Megan Farmer/KUOW Cities are finalizing bids ahead of Thursday's deadline to apply to host Amazon's second headquarters, known as HQ2. City officials are eager to attract 50,000 high-wage jobs, billions of dollars in direct investment and millions more in related economic activity. But Amazon…
Read the story15 minLawrence Halprin, city choreographer
At the dedication ceremony for the Bunker Hill Steps in 1990, the designer, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, said, "Great cities are not made by automobiles, freeways and high-rises. Basically they are made by open spaces and the people who use those open spaces.
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