The bathrooms outside of the Community Center will remain open throughout winter.
Of interesting note, one of the drinking fountains in the park is part of over one hundred public artworks in parks and facilities across the City.
The drinking fountain, named "Seattle Scatter Piece" is shaped like a boat and made of concrete and marble (rock).
Of interesting note, one of the drinking fountains in the park is part of over one hundred public artworks in parks and facilities across the City.
The drinking fountain, named "Seattle Scatter Piece" is shaped like a boat and made of concrete and marble (rock).
A Public Art website says about the piece:
Artist Mark Lere's uniquely sited sculptural vessel thematically connects four Seattle neighborhoods through the repetition and transformation of an iconic image of a boat placed on public property within each neighborhood: Beacon Hill Reservoir, a viewpoint at Interbay, Laurelhurst and Bitter Lake.
These reiterations of the boat form, created from concrete, are designed to be united figuratively by the viewer's voyage from site to site. This journey constructs a full picture of the boat. Lere's sculpture began as a simple line drawing of a boat overlaid on a map of Seattle.
The Seattle City website says:
Lere’s sculpture began as a simple line drawing of a boat overlaid on a map of Seattle; the corners locate the sites of the artworks. Each of the artworks sites incorporate a part of the boat and other elements. The project was begun in 1981 and completed in 2005.
Lere was chosen through an invitational competition to select a publicly owned site for a project proposal. Due to the complexity of his proposal and the number of approvals required by the city, the project took many years to achieve by the time it was completed.
Click through the interactive map to take a virtual tour of the public artwork. Go here for more information.
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