Campus of the University of Washington

[1][2] The University of Washington, Seattle campus is situated on the shores of Union and Portage Bays, with views of the Cascade Range to the east and the Olympic Mountains to the west.

West Campus is less of a separate entity than the others, many of its facilities being on city streets, and stretches between 15th Avenue and Interstate 5 from the Ship Canal to N.E.

The exposition plan, also designed by John C. Olmsted, defined the university's major axis on the lower campus.

Oriented to the southeast, it follows the East Asian concept of shakkei or borrowed scenery, providing the university with its primary vista of Mount Rainier on clear days.

A unique, glass-walled building housing an experimental nuclear reactor as also built in the style and later named the More Hall Annex.

The reactor opened in 1961; a small radioactivity leak in 1972 resulted only in a temporary shutdown, but security concerns eventually led to it being decommissioned.

[5] An apparent attempt to harmonize future development with the Regents' Plan can be seen in the university's most recent construction, including the 1990 Kenneth Allen wing of the central library and a new generation of medical, science and engineering buildings.

Significant funding came from Microsoft co-founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates, who have strong family connections to the university but did not attend UW.

In March 2006, the $150 million William H. Foege bioengineering and genome sciences building was dedicated by Bill Gates and former U.S. president Jimmy Carter.

At present, plans are being finalized to relocate UW administration and support services to the complex, leaving the main campus (two blocks away) for teaching and research.

The Washington Park Arboretum, south of main campus across Union Bay, is run by the university, though owned by the city of Seattle.

The Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center, at 5,740,200 square feet (533,280 m2), is the second largest office building in the United States.

William H. Gates Hall, located south of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture,[10] has 196,000 square feet (18,200 m2) of space.

sluʔwiɫ, a cul-de-sac off Stevens Way, leads to the north campus dormitories McMahon, Haggett, McCarty, and Hansee halls.

Tami Hohn, a Puyallup tribe member and Southern Lushootseed lecturer at UW, helped formalize the street sign's spelling, font, and color.

The area south of Husky Stadium (parking lot) and Pacific Street (medical center) was formerly a nine-hole golf course.

[15][16] Construction of the tunnel system began as early as 1895 and continued through expansion of the campus; additional escape hatches were installed following the 2001 Nisqually earthquake.