AKA: Experience Music Project (EMP), Seattle Center, Seattle, WA; Mo' Pop, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
Structure Type: built works - exhibition buildings - museums; built works - performing arts buildings
Designers: Gehry, Frank O. and Associates, Incorporated (firm); Loschky Marquardt and Nesholm (LMN), Architects (firm); Frank Owen Gehry (architect); George Henry Loschky (architect); Judsen Robert Marquardt (architect); John Frank Nesholm (architect)
Dates: constructed 1997-2000
total floor area: 110,000 sq. ft.
325 5th Avenue North
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Building Notes
Planning: 1995-1997; construction: 1997-2000; designed for the Microsoft billionaire, Paul Allen, located on the site of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, now known as the Seattle Center; EMP contains 13,006 square meters; cost: $240,000,000;
PCAD id: 2548
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