Seattle’s floating stadium
I'm reminded that after the 1962 World's Fair, Seattle almost built a 🌊 floating stadium 🌊 but the project was killed in large part due to... parking.
Although it may sound a little wild, architecturally and structurally speaking, Kerssen says it seems like it was feasible. A Naval architect was even hired to ensure there would be a level playing field for sports - don't want to rock the boat too much, you know?
Unfortunately, there was one big problem.
Parking.
"It seems like the planning commission kind of nixed it because it seemed like parking was going to be a real problem," Kerssen says.
They needed 700 parking spots, and that was not going to happen. Its downfall was a tangle of city logistics, two things that we still experience in Seattle to this very day - parking problems, and traffic congestion.
