Restaurant Service Area

Expansion of UW Campus, Seattle

The UW campus moved from downtown Seattle to its present site in 1895. Most of the grounds were undeveloped before the summer of 1909 when a world’s fair, the Alaska-YukonPacific Exposition, took place. In this map, the darkest blue represents 1908, the year before the Exposition; the second darkest blue represents 1909, the year of the Exposition; the third darkest blue represents 1960, the year the UW Club was built; and the lightest blue represents present day.

Nature and Access to Views

Seattle has more than 400 city parks, and campus itself looks like one of them. From darkest to lightest blue: parks and gardens, squares, sport fields, and courts. As the architects considered the site, they divided the building into western and eastern parts, positioned longwise from north to south. Its western part sits on the hill and cantilevers to the east supported with steel pilotis, which maximizes the spectacular views from the building over the Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountain Range to the east.