Sound Transit

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Location

Puget Sound Region, WA

Client

Sound Transit

Designer

Various

In collaboration with Sound Transit, CRĒO has design engineered, fabricated, and installed numerous elements across various light rail stations in the Puget Sound region of Western Washington.

At Wilburton Station in Bellevue, WA, CRĒO constructed a 40-foot illuminated tower that changes from a mirrored face to shifting colors throughout the evening and into the night. Additionally, the station features a trail bridge that spans one of the busiest city streets on the Eastside. This bridge connects the emerging 42-mile Eastrail to Sound Transit’s Wilburton Station and honors the legacy of the Bellevue Japanese-American farming community with a 117-foot-long metal graphic panel system.

Inside Bellevue Downtown Station, a stunning illuminated circular lightbox structure called “Cyclorama” hangs from the ceiling at the main entrance. At Sound Transit’s Downtown Federal Way Station, CRĒO fabricated a massive mural by artist Christine Nguyen. The 226-foot-long and 26-foot-tall mural was printed using dye sublimation onto hundreds of aluminum channels and installed on the west side of the parking garage.

Kurt Kiefer Sound Transit Art Program

Sound Transit values the work of artists to make add richness to our passengers’ experiences and place our stations in communities. The Sound Transit Art Program (STart) develops works of art for most of its facilities, working in collaboration with communities to choose artists and make places that are valuable civic assets.

In 2011 Luca Buvoli was selected to develop artwork for the Roosevelt Station, applying for the project in response to a national call-for-artists competition. The selection panel of Roosevelt Neighborhood Association, Roosevelt High School, and Sound Transit staff chose Buvoli for the project based on the strength of his past work celebrating movement through drawn images and the relationship of the high school’s athletic fields to the station.

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