When you think of the Seattle skyline, you think of the biggest and flashiest, like the Space Needle or Columbia Tower. But moving around the city, there are some buildings, eras, and styles that contribute to the fabric of the place in unique ways.
Seattle is a veritable cornucopia of architectural styles, and a lot of those are tied to our industrial booms. For example, we’re full early-20th-century Gold Rush buildings—think most of Pioneer Square—and midcentury gems from the peak of the aerospace era, like the futurist buildings from the Century 21 Exposition.
While the current Amazon boom is at an all-time high, we’ve been riding the tech boom for quite a while, and it’s gotten us some interesting additions to the landscape, like the downtown library and the Frank Gehry-designed Museum of Popular Culture.
Here are 22 iconic buildings that define Seattle in one way or another. (Besides the Space Needle. Everyone knows about the Space Needle.)
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