This is my favorite piece of architecture in Seattle right now….
It’s the Yesler Terrace Steam Plant. It rises over the ghost of Seattle’s last utopia. When the scaffolds go, so will my love for it.
Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory... More by Charles Mudede