SEAVIEW  &  SQUIDOPUS

Whale Tale Playground         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.  Families in the neighborhood make the decision to redo their park.  With financial and planning help from the Dept of Neighborhoods and Department of Parks, these neighborhood committees take on the gargantuan task:  Raising several hundred thousand dollars; hiring project principals including landscape architect or 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.

© Benson Shaw 2005

A project of Friends of Whale Tail Playground

Linda Cuddy chair

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