D STREET

D Street Bridge “Rails to Sails”
2003-2008, Tacoma, WA

Vicki Scuri SiteWorks
Engineer: Exeltech Engineers
Architect: McGranahan Architects
Sponsored by the City of Tacoma

This project features an elevated roadway that is supported on structure and MSE green walls as an environmental amenity along the Foss Waterway. Project includes artist-collaboratively-designed sail pedestrian lights, painted graphics for roadway lighting, shaped, patterned walls reflecting NW storefronts and tugboat forms (including historic boat names), custom roadway barrier, fencing with railroad rail posts, wavy walkway, MSE green walls, and rock walls. The project is located between the Tacoma Dome and the downtown providing a major vehicular and pedestrian connector across the Northern Pacific Railroad Site and the Foss Waterway. The Artist introduced the environmental approach and created the identity program for the project. The work is collaborative between Vicki Scuri and the Design Team.

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