Close-up view of the upper section of the 1201 Third Avenue Tower, Seattle, Washington
(previously known as the Washington Mutual Tower) is the second tallest skyscraper in the downtown Seattle skyline. Standing at a height of 235 metres (770 ft), and containing 55 stories, it is also the eighth tallest skyscraper on the West Coast. Construction began in 1986 and finished in 1988. It was designed by and The McKinley Architects. The building was the world headquarters of the financial company Washington Mutual from the building's opening until the company moved into the WaMu Center across the street in 2006. The New York Times named it one of the three best new office buildings in the United States in 1988, and in the May 1989 issue of Architecture Magazine Walter McQuade called it "perhaps the best recent addition to any skyline." Paul Goldberger said of the tower, “The building seems proud of its height; for all its classical elements it has a certain sleekness, and in this sense it is characteristic of our time, at least in intention, for it bespeaks a desire to combine the formal imagery of classicism and the energizing aura of modernity.” Seattlites have voted the 55-story skyscraper as one of their favorite buildings
Size: 3286px × 5157px
Location: 1201 Third Ave., Seattle, Washington
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: architects, architecture, building, close-, downtown, high-rise, offices, seattle, skyscraper, symetry
