[35-Days Trip 2010] Day 02 _ Architecture Day

There are always days in my trip, when architecture makes the theme. It helps to get rid of my guilty when I file them as job related expense for tax, ok, that's a joke. It feels really good to be in the middle of  those images from magazines and around by details alive. Besides, I get to catch my own moments, which keeps my feeling of being part of the space. Here's one of those "architecture day".

Olympic Sculpture Park by Weiss/Manfredi
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8499133@N02/sets/72157625006196931/show/
It's a place with lots of "elements" - pavillion, plaza, train, high way, hill, water, empty land, busy intersection... and people. Sometimes, I felt them all, layers overlapped. Then, they're all gone, just me, in a corner away from all.

Space Needle
I didn't know this iconic tower was built for 1962 World's fair until the day I was there. And soon I would find out I was basically making a World's fair tour across centuries and continents, but let's leave this topic for later.

Anyway, I knew Space Needle from TV series "Dark Angel" and "Grey's Anotomy", especially the first one. Its main character Max, an emotional genetically enhanced super-soldier, loved climbing to the very top of this abandoned TV tower at night, spending her sleepless night by overlooking the whole post-apocalyptic Seattle attacked by electromagnetic pulse weapon. This scene matches the idea of "Googie architecture" in a nostalgic way.
I didn't take the observation deck tour because locals told me the city skyline isn't impressive without Space Needle. I bought a Lego model with saved money instead.

(to be continued)