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US: Seattle, WA – Seattle Mural
This huge Seattle wall mural is made of colorful mosaic pieces.
US: Seattle, WA – Architecture of Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture
The fantastical sheet metal walls of MoPop were designed by Frank Gehry. It is often quoted as looking like a smashed electric guitar. Gehry himself had made the comparison, “We started collecting pictures of Stratocasters, bringing in guitar bodies, drawing on those shapes in developing our ideas.”
Despite some critical reviews of the structure, the building has been called “a fitting backdrop for the world’s largest collection of Jimi Hendrix memorabilia.” The outside of the building which features a fusion of textures and colors, including gold, silver, deep red, blue and a “shimmering purple haze,” has been declared “an apt representation of the American rock experience.
US: Seattle, WA – Chihuly Garden and Glass Building
Cheerful giant glass sunflowers decorate the outside of the famous Chihuly Garden and Glass museum in Seattle. If you like these, wait till you see what’s inside. And don’t miss the garden.
US: Seattle, WA – Hall of Glass Chandeliers
Look up when you walk through this corridor at the Chihuly Garden and Glass museum in Seattle, WA. You can pick the colored chandelier of your dreams.
US: Seattle, WA – Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle, WA
Bushes don’t get as beautiful as this Dave Chihuly glass one in Seattle WA . 
US: Seattle, WA – Out of Space Chihuly Globe
Look carefully into the center of this Dale Chihuly Glass Globe and you can see a reflection of the Seattle Space Needle.
US: Seattle, WA – Dave Chihuly Garden
In Seattle, these flowers never die as they have been created by Dave Chihuly and made out of glass. To us they are just as pretty as real ones.
US: Seattle, WA – Chihuly Grows Into a Space Needle
In the Chihuly Glass Garden in Seattle, WA, if you look at it in just the right way, you can see a glass sculpture morph into the Seattle Space Needle.
US: Seattle, WA – Glasshouse and Glasshouse Sculpture
The centerpiece of the Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle, WA, is the glasshouse. Dale Chihuly dreamed of having a space like this to present a sculpture. His inspiration came from two favorite glass buildings, the Ste. Chapelle in Paris and the Crystal Palace in London. The intensely colorful fluted flowers which change hues from morning to night, he calls the Persians.
US: Seattle, WA – Dale Chihuly Ikebana and Float Boats
I wouldn’t want to go boating with these in my boat but they sure are beautiful to look at. Even the reflection in the water is beautiful. See them at Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle, WA.
