ALLIED ARTS :: WATERFRONT

Waterfront For All

In the spirit of the "Save the Pike Place Market" campaign, Allied Arts is working to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with Seattle's next great civic space. We're changing the discussion

Allied Arts challenged conventional wisdom years ago to save the Pike Place Market—we need them again today to lead Seattle by advocating for a great waterfront. — Richard Conlin Seattle City Councilmember

from "What type of transportation infrastructure should replace the viaduct?" to "What should we do with the neighborhood we call the waterfront?" Our work with the City of Seattle and the State Department of Transportation has generated new engineering and design solutions that will improve the connections between the waterfront and adjacent neighborhoods, once the viaduct is removed. At the Allied Arts Waterfront Design Collaborative, teams of architectural designers, planners and historians produced "Waterfront Visions" that inspired the public and decision makers to realize the waterfront could be a destination, and not just a transportation corridor.

Click to download the Waterfront For All: Waterfront Master Vision Collaborative report in PDF.