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Election Results, Curvy New High Rise and More News
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Hopefully you’re not currently stuck in the 17-mile backup on I-5 SB. Brutal. Either way, let’s talk about what’s happening in Seattle today.
I’m also hopeful that you rocked your vote yesterday in the 2015 general elections. Find the results for Seattle, King County and Washington state here at Crosscut. While this was the first time in more than a century that we elected Seattle City Council members by districts, Crosscut and Seattle mag contributor Knute Berger noted that “for a historic election, it was a bit of an anti-climax.” Anticlimactic or not, voters passed the $930M Move Seattle levy and councilwoman Kshama Sawant kept her seat.
Drawings were revealed for a 41-story high rise near Amazon’s headquarters in South Lake Union and they’ve got curves. The tower, designed by ZGF Architects with Canada’s Cotter Architects, will have a wavy facade that “will undulate and curve as it rises 41 stories above Denny Way,” says the Puget Sound Business Journal. The structure will feature 420 apartments and 10,000 square feet of retail space and is slated to begin construction–pending approval of the design proposal–in the fall of 2016.
Get excited: Japanese apparel retailer UNIQLO opens on Friday in Bellevue Square.
Despite a lackluster first half of the season, the Seattle Seahawks are still in playoff contention according to some NFL experts. The Seattle Times notes that while the ‘Hawks are 4-4 they are “somehow rated in the top 10 of most of the NFL’s power rankings from the national media and major newspapers.” Why? Experts are citing a cake-walk of a schedule during the second half of the season–after this week’s bye the Seahawks take on the Arizona Cardinals, the 49ers (ha!) and the Steelers (who just lost in crushing fashion to my Cincinnati Bengals)–thus giving analysts reason to believe they’ll make it into the post-season. Read all of the analysts predictions here.
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The Seattle-based artist brings playful color to ceramics and neon while exploring memory, transformation, and life between cultures.
For Ling Chun, creating begins with something sensed before it can be named. Working with clay, glass, light, and sometimes synthetic hair, the Hong Kong-born artist gives physical form to things that words cannot always hold. “For me, the magnitude of making goes far beyond the object that is eventually produced,” Chun says. “The object…
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Your Guide to Bumbershoot 2026
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