One Boeing 747 will soon be hung in Seattle between the two towers of the Westbank real estate company WB1200 project. The massive Jumbo fuselage will hover over the housing project gallery as a focal point and a symbol of industrial innovation.
The project is led by Ian Gillespie, founder of the Vancouver-based Canadian company. Because the project wants to be an anthem to innovation, the ship’s fuselage will not just hang as an art object, but as a used space, as the Boeing The 747 will also be the workplace for Westbank while the queue will be the entrance to the Live Nation event space.
The aircraft, which has been retired, is currently being dismantled in the city of Victorville in the Californian Desert and will then be moved north to Seattle. There it will be reassembled and hung between two skyscrapers under construction on Stewart Street and Denny Way in Seattle’s South Lake Union district; almost 4.3 meters above the gallery between the towers of the WB1200. Westbank expects the ambitious project to be completed later this year.
“Incorporating into our project the complete fuselage of a 747 is an opportunity to highlight both Boeing’s legacy and its history in Seattle,” Westbank said. The first flight of this aircraft took place in 1990 and was withdrawn in 2017, five years before the cessation of the full 747 series by Boeing. The Boeing 747 levitation plan was designed by Japanese architectural firm OSO, which was founded in 2017 by two former Kengo Kuma employees, while the two skyscrapers were designed by Henriquez Partners Architects.
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