One of the favorite cities in the U.S. is tucked up in the upper-left corner of Washington State. Close to the ocean, close to the Cascades, and close to Canada, Seattle is not only a good place to visit, but you might want to live there. A great attraction of this city is the Seattle architecture. Residential architects Seattle have imagined into reality a city of unique neighborhoods unlike the facade in the front/barracks in the back McMansions found in the Midwest. Walls of glass bring the beauty of the Pacific Ocean and the Cascade Mountains into the living rooms of the citizens fortunate enough to call this city home.
The unique architecture of the city hits the eye immediately as the visitor approaches the city by air. Seattle’s unique character is exemplified by her most famous landmark, the Space Needle. The Space Needle was conceptualized with the Stuttgart Tower in Germany in mind by Edward E. Carlson for the 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair. The concept for this fair was Century 21. And here we are in Century 21, and the Space Needle is still a forward-thinking symbol for a modern city. Still today, it attracts visitors by the thousands. That is, on the days its not closed due to climate conditions.
And while were on the subject of weather, Seattle has a climate as distinctive as the city itself. If you want to bask in the hot, dry sun, go to Palm Springs. But if you want a cool, damp climate, and temperate summers, Seattle is the place for you. an average summer day is in the 70s, and a normal winter day is in the 30s. Seattle’s reputation about rain is true. It does rain a lot. normal rainfall in Seattle is somewhere close to 37 inches annually. However, what falls from the sky is normally no more than a light drizzle. Seattle also is known for gray skies. This reputation is cant be denied. Whereas, in New England, when the rain stops, the sky turns blue, in the Northwest, the skies remain gray when the rain stops. Winter is the time of rain, with the rainy season beginning around the First of October.
Since the beginning, Seattle has provided a living for its residents in a number of different ways that evolved following the evolution of the country as a whole. In the beginning, logging was the big business. This was followed in the last half of the Nineteenth Century by the Klondike Gold Rush. Seattle acted as a port for sending supplies to the Gold Rush in Alaska and the Yukon. Throughout this era, it wasn’t gold that made the people wealthy. It was the clothing industry and the salmon industry. Later, as the Twentieth Century progressedinto the Mid-Twentieth Century, the boom in Seattle was fueled by the aircraft industry and, today, by the software industry.
But, you know what they say about all work and no play. Seattle also provides cultural activities that appeal to the entire spectrum of music lovers. One end of the spectrum has the Seattle Symphony, the opera, and the ballet. At the other end is the grunge music of such artists as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and Mudhoney.