OLYMPIC SCULPTURE PARK
Envisioned as a new model for an urban sculpture park, the Olympic Sculpture Park creates a continuous landscape for art while capitalizing on views of the city skyline and Elliot Bay, reconnecting the urban core to the revitalized waterfront. The park consists of a 9-acre outdoor sculpture museum and beach situated at the northern end of the Seattle seawall and the southern end of Myrtle Edwards Park. This former industrial site was occupied by the oil and gas corporation Unocal until the 1970s and subsequently became a contaminated brownfield before the Seattle Art Museum proposed to transform the area into one of the only green spaces in Downtown Seattle. We developed three new archetypal landscapes of the northwest the user descends through: a dense temperate evergreen forest, a deciduous forest and a shoreline garden. Completed by Chris Jones, as Associate with Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture, prior to founding Groundswell.