Featured on this page is a pro- ject I photographed for Firestone Metal Products, of the recently completed Amazon Building # 26. This site sits on the edge of what some have nicknamed, "Allen- town,"after Paul Allen's vision for a new- century urban center, based on life science industries. An innovative, multi-toned, metal surface wrapping portions of the building is the clients featured product. Like a metallic chameleon, its colors and tone changes depending on what light illuminates it at the moment. After photographing the Amazon Building, I took a twilight stroll through Vulcan Development’s new-urban-center. It’s captivating how the reflective surfaces of the buildings interact with one another, producing rich saturated colors from the setting sun. In some ways this biotech district, with its multi-layered textures and modest scale reminds me of an ultra modern urban landscape found within Japan’ s city of Tokyo. Ultimately, the true character of this Seattle nascent neighborhood, will depend on the multi cultural/economic diversity that will live, work and play within it. Fall 2010 bigpicturephoto.us projects Photographs and text by David Johanson Vasquez ©2010