Seattle

Downtown

 A stunning view from the Seattle waterfront. The sea and the mountains are seen in the background.

 View from the waterfront .

An alternative way to use trees. 

 Outside Pike Place Market. A lot of people in movement. 

Street view. A mix of old and new buildings.

Grown up trees a long the street. It looks nice. Just thinking of if the space between the crown of the tree and the facade is enough...

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Seattle Center

The international Fountain. It´s amazing how huge the area around the fountain is, likewise the ornament in the middle. How small the people look in comparison to the fountain just attracted my attention.

 Experience Music Project. An interesting building, the shape and the colour are very expressive.

 A pice of the area outside of the building is painted in a playful pattern, which bring more livefullness to the hardscaped surface.

Sticks in a row screen off the area effectively from the parking space. I like the transparency the stick origins, instead of using a dense wall and also how the colours blends with the sky.

Neat sitting area. The blue colour of the benches ads a creative detail to the minimalistic design. I like it!

 A glass statue, maybe to symbolize a juniper. Artwork is something that Seattle seem to use a lot of in their urban design. My experience was that they often where made in a glass material.

Another artwork. I like the colour of it and the fact that path windings through it which gives the visitor chance to experience it in different levels. 

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Transit

About the transit system again, but this time in Seattle. I was fascinated again. But this time because the busses and the light train shared platform. They probably shared trail too, which I never seen before. I just seem so clever to be able to use the space for more then one transit system.

Handy to have busses which are able to transport your bike, when it's to far or you just are to tiered to bike home.

Bike lane along the beautiful waterfront and some nice chairs to rest on when you need a break.

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I went to Seattle during the reading week. The transit system at the airport really impressed me. The train was running every 5 minutes, which made it so easy to access the other terminals. It was also driverless, which are uncommon in Sweden and made the trip even more exciting...

Great building. Don't think anyone lives there though, which is a shame to such a great architecture.

This is outside the City Hall in downtown Guelph, an area that received a new design recently. I'm fond of those small ornamental islands, my only question is if the trees are going to survey. It looks like the planting beds are quite small. Maybe to tiny to give them enough water, nutritions and space for the roots to grow. But who knows, they might used skeleton soil.

This is Nathan Phillips Square, a square located in the city center of Toronto. This pic is so much Canada and I like it. It's impressive how ice skating can draw so many peoples attention. Sweden should so look in to Canada and plan for more ice rinks in the cities.

A nice walk by the Toronto waterfront.

I just can´t help it, but I really fancy the golden skyscrape together with the black skyscrapes designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It's unreal how buildings created in 1960 still pass through as modern architecture.

Toronto Islands, it's stunning how flat they are.

I think this pic give you a sense how Toronto is constructed, in a grid pattern like a lot of other big cities. The thing I love with this view is how the freeway are winding out of the city, leading the eye away...

A view of Toronto from the CN Tower. Its like the city never ends. I like how those skyscrapers are poking up here and there in a mix with lower houses and how they in the end, close to the horizon, are matched up with the color of the sky.

Something persisted on my intention. I think it was the combination of intersections, the mixture of the street pattern for vehicle and tramps and the grand junction of cables in the air. It fascinated me.