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$7 for One of Fourteen Educational Architectural Walking Tours from The Seattle Architecture Foundation ($15 Value)

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$15
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  • 11:59PM
  • 12/21/2009
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  • Expires Dec 23, 2010
  • Limit 1 per person. May purchase multiple as gifts. Tours subject to availability. Groupon will be redeemable through Brown Paper Tickets starting 1/1/2010 at 1 p.m.
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Highlights

  • Choose from fourteen distinct tours
  • Gain a new understanding for Seattle's architecture
  • All tours last two hours
  • Learn the social and historical influences that build a structure

Jump to: Reviews | Walking Tour Superiority

Like mathematics and buffalo wings, architecture is so deeply ingrained in our modern world that it sometimes goes unnoticed. For $7, today's Groupon will open your eyes with a ticket to your choice of four architectural walking tours held on Thursdays, Fridays, or Saturdays from The Seattle Architecture Foundation. Gain a better understanding of the richly complex history of your local arches, beams, and arches. It's the perfect educational adventure for families or groups of friends who have lived together for years and are now legally considered family.

Since the very first person escaped a tiger through a wisely dug cave, architecture has existed. Architecture is a statement of the present that reflects upon the past and plants the seeds of the future. Join in the vast tradition with an education from one of fourteen distinct tours:

Downtown Tours

Community Tours

All fourteen tours begin at 10 a.m., last roughly two hours, and will give you all kinds of conversational fodder at any fundraiser that supports discovering new ways to brand cattle. Your departure location will vary depending on which tour you choose. These buildings are more than utilitarian structures created for man to send emails and write with pencils, they are designed out of vast waves of historical forethought and are meant to intrigue the mind and welcome the eyes. Carry your new architectural education into the guiding philosophy for your birdhouse construction agency that employs only living parakeets.

Reviews

The Seattle Metropolitan calls The Seattle Architectural Foundation a top 26 way to spend a memorable Saturday, and the Seattle Times writes that the book that mirrors the foundation's tours is an excellent resource to the city's structural history.

One Yelper gives the Seattle Architecture Foundation tour five stars:

  • Cost of the tour: $15; ability to show off massive brain to teacher: priceless. – carrie L. B.

Groupon Says

Walking Tour Superiority

Walking tours are far superior to other modes-of-travel-based tours, and here’s why:

  • Segway tours are fun and speedy, but if the Segway Personal Transporter exceeds 11 mph, it will transmogrify into a pile of sand.
  • Horse drawn carriage tours are romantic, but the horses often get too big for their britches and try to run up the sides of buildings.
  • Zipline tours are over way too quickly, not to mention that most of them send you hurtling through a bakery window.
  • Bicycle tours—if God wanted you to ride a bicycle, he would have had your mother give birth to a bicycle instead of a kid brother.
  • Helicopter tours offer a great view, but it seems like every gosh darn helicopter pilot in town has dated your sister.

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