oct 2010 amazon corporate headquarters, overlake hospital clinic in bellevue, wa
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Essay on architecture photographed at night including Overlake Clinic and Microsoft facilities in Bellevue, WA, new Amazon Corporate Headquarters in South Lake Union District ; developed by Paul Allen\'s Vulcan Reality Group. Client includes Overlake Hospital and Firestone Metal ProductsTRANSCRIPT
Featured on this page is a pro-ject I photographed for Firestone Metal Products, of the recently completed Amazon Building # 26. This site sits on the edge of what some have nicknamed, "Allen-town,"after Paul Allen's vision for a new-century urban center, based on life science industries. An innovative, multi-toned, metal surface wrapping portions of the building is the clients featured product. Like a metallic chameleon, its colors and tone changes depending on what light illuminates it at the moment.
After photographing the Amazon Building, I took a twilight stroll through Vulcan Development’s new-urban-center. It’s captivating how the reflective surfaces of the buildings interact with one another, producing rich saturated colors from the setting sun. In some ways this biotech district, with its multi-layered textures and modest scale reminds me of an ultra modern urban landscape found within Japan’s city of Tokyo. Ultimately, the true character of this Seattle nascent neighborhood, will depend on the multi cultural/economic diversity that will live, work and play within it.
Fall 2010 bigpicturephoto.us projects Photographs and text by David Johanson Vasquez ©2010
Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, has been a client for the past few years and is al-ways great to work with. They’ve hired me to take both dramatic aerial photographs of its medical center, plus archi-tectural views which capture the surrounding urban context with an iconic Cascade Moun-tain range in the background. Earlier this month, Overlake Hospital opened a new clinic within the energetic high-rise district of Bellevue. This time my assignment included pho-tographing people interacting inside the dynamic new lobby clinic. A'er completing the photo shoot, I explored Bellevue’s grow-ing high-rise district and found dramatic evening light illuminating in all directions. Over the past few years, with re-finements to digital camera’s sensors, I’m finding more delightful opportunities to photo-graph at night for my commercial and fine art work.
Fall 2010 bigpicturephoto.us projects Photographs and text by David Johanson Vasquez ©2010