Rainbow nest dome, more kid-friendly than glass
  • Rainbow nest dome, more kid-friendly than glass

Goldy, over at HorsesAss, has a vision for a "Really Kick-Ass Playground" to inhabit the space that Chihuly backers are attempting to claim for their Chihuly Museum. He envisions something funky and kid-friendly, such as a rainbow nest dome for kids to play on (like the one at the Takino Hillside Park in Sapporo-shi, Japan) and a small, locally-run cafe.

Goldy is against the Chihuly Museum but "in addition to just saying 'no,'" he writes, "we also need to be advocating for a preferable alternative."

We agree, even with the Japanese hippie dome.

So how does he propose paying for this alternative? With a small, targeted, Really Kick-Ass Playground Levy. Says Goldy:

... [imagine] only 8 bucks a year to build something really, really cool that your kids and your grandkids will use again and again, instead of some elitist, $15 admission “museum” you might visit maybe once, but that would lock up and enclose an acre and a half of precious open space for generations.

The Really Kick-Ass Playground Levy, he says, would make a playground development for the Fun Forest site feasible. It would also be more than just saying 'no' to the Chihuly Museum—it would support an alternative that would better meet the needs of Seattleites.