Olympic Sculpture Park on the Seattle waterfront was created and is run by the Seattle Art Museum. Weiss/Manfredi was lead designer, with Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture and Magnusson Klemencic Associates as collaborators. Founders Mary and Jon Shirley gave $30 million. The park opened on January 20, 2007. The article names no architectural style.
It covers about 9 acres (3.6 ha) on a former Unocal site that was a contaminated brownfield until the 1970s. Features include an indoor pavilion and a beach on Puget Sound. Seawall work spans 1,000 feet (300 m), and 50,000 tonnes of riprap shape the underwater slope. Works on view include Alexander Calder's Eagle and Richard Serra's Wake.
The park is open from sunrise to sunset, and admission is free. Frommer's called it the best thing to happen to Seattle in years.
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