SEAVIEW  &  SQUIDOPUS

Whale Tail Playground         Alki Neighborhood    Seattle  WA

SEAVIEW & SQUIDOPUS at Whale Tail Playground in West Seattle’s Alki neighborhood.


Playgrounds in Seattle are owned and maintained by the Seattle Department of Parks.  However, the Parks Dept does not decide when neighborhood parks need renewal, redesign and renovation.  Neighborhood community groups make the decision to redo their park.  With planning help and seed money from the Neighborhoods and Parks Departments, these neighborhood committees take on gargantuan tasks:  Raising several hundred thousand dollars; hiring project landscape architect, artists and construction contractors; managing the design process, and finally, after about 3 or 4 years, managing the construction.  Shown here are two artworks for the tot play area by Benson Shaw.  Seattle artist Leslie Jane created several beautiful artworks elsewhere the park.  The playground was named for the 1970s Flukes sculpture by Rich Beyer.  Chuck Warsinske and Margaret Hayes of Susan Black & Associates were the lead landscape architects.

Project drawings gallery

SEAVIEW gallery

SQUIDOPUS gallery

Fabrication & installation gallery

© Benson Shaw 2005

A project of Friends of Whale Tail Playground

Linda Cuddy chair

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26 May, 2013