Commissioned Artists & Architects

Commissioned artists

For Metro:

• Alice Adams
  Convention Place Station, entrance marquees; International District/Chinatown Station, trellis structures, Chinese calendar paving and seating platform on plaza.
• Bill Bell
  University Street Station, south mezzanine lightsticks.
• Garth Edwards
  Pioneer Square Station, Prefontaine Park entrance gates; tree-grate design for Linden trees.
• Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler
  Pioneer Square Station, mezzanine clocks; "Traveling Stories" entrance markers and stair riser quotations.
• Jim Garrett
  Pioneer Square Station, Lyon Building entrance gates.
• Brian Goldbloom
  Pioneer Square Station, Lyon Building entrance granite-wall design.
• Maren Hassinger
  Convention Place Station, plaza planters; tree-grate design for Norway maple trees.
• Sonya Ishii
  International District/Chinatown Station, trellis structures and Chinese calendar paving on plaza and origami wall panels on platform.
• Fay Jones
  Westlake Station, platform mural.
• Jack Mackie
  Convention Place Station, south retaining wall and staging area painting designs; Westlake Station, terra-cotta park on south wall, sandblasted patterns on platform benches.
• Laureen Mar
  International District/Chinatown Station, trellis poetry.
• Gene Gentry McMahon
  Westlake Station, platform mural.
• Erin Shie Palmer
  University Street Station, "Temple of Music"
• Virginia Paquette
  Tree-grate design for zeikova trees.
• Susan Point
  Tree-grate design for red oak trees.
• Heather Ramsay
  Pendulum street clock, near the corner of Third Avenue and University Street on west side of the street.
• Dyan Rey
  Tree-grate design for gingko trees.
• Vicki Scuri
  Tunnel signs and reflectors; Westlake Station, patterned tiles on walls; University Street Station, wall and floor design, "the Beltline."
• Roger Shimomura
  Westlake Station, platform mural.
• Laura Sindell
  Pioneer Square Station, Prefontaine Park entrance mosaic.
• Maggie Smith
  International District/Chinatown Station, children's art tiles on plaza kiosks.
• Robert Teeple
  University Street Station, north mezzanine dynamic lightwork.
• Bill Whipple
  Question mark street clock, on the south side of Pine Street at Sixth Avenue.

For Sound Transit:

• Christian French and Karen Lewis
  Station pictograms, "Stellar Connections."
• Ries Niemi
  Pine street vent shaft, stainless-steel sculptures, "Eat, Drink and Be Merry."
• Norie Sato
  Sandblasted braid in station floors.

Architects

Design consultants:

• Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas, F. Edward Elliott, manager of architecture

Architecture subconsultant:

• TRA, Mark W. Spitzer, project design architect

Lead architects and artists:

• International District/Chinatown Station-Gary Hartnett, PBQ&D; Alice Adams and Sonya Ishii
• Pioneer Square Station-Jerry McDevitt, TRA; Kate Ericson
• University Street Station-Mark Spitzer, TRA; Vicki Scuri
• Westlake Station-Brent Carison, TRA; Jack Mackie
• Convention Place Station-Bob Jones, TRA; Alice Adams and Jack Mackie
• Surface Improvements-Dennis Haskell, TRA; Jack Mackie and Kate Ericson
• Tunnel-Vicki Scuri

Consultants for Sound Transit stub tunnel:

• Streeter and Associates, Greg Hill, lead architect
• KPFF Consulting Engineers, structural engineer
• Karen Kiest Landscape Architecture, landscape architecture
• CH2M HILL, civil engineering for Pine Street