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The Fat Lady often sings for historic stadiums

Posted Thu, Jan 7, 10:08 p.m.

Knute, thanks for another fine piece on the value of preserving Modern resources. SOM's Portland Coliseum is an architectural gem. The architecture and preservation communities in Portland pulled together in a short amount of time to save the Coliseum from demolition. Fortunately, the mayor and others heard the people and ...

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Score one for Seattle's historic nuke site

Posted Mon, Oct 5, 6:52 p.m.

Docomomo WEWA is thrilled to hear that the Nuclear Reactor Building is finally listed on the National Register of Historic Places. We congratulate Abby Martin and others from Friends of the Nuclear Reactor Building who worked so hard to make this happen. The fight to save the reactor is long ...

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Preserving a city's sacred sites

Posted Tue, Jul 7, 12:21 p.m.

On the positive side of this issue to preserve our sacred places, the University Unitarian Church (UUC) in Seattle has been an excellent steward of its modern church building, constructed in 1959 and designed by Paul Hayden Kirk & Associates. Docomomo WEWA is offering an architectural tour of the church ...

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