Quick look: Bill Gates' spanking new interactive Visitors Center
By Michael Cooney,
Network World |
Feb 6, 2012 7:00 PM
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation opens Seattle complex for inspiration
Last weekend the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation opened their sparkling, 13,400 square foot, $15 million Visitors Center complex in Seattle. The center includes a number of interactive sections like the Innovation & Inspiration Gallery, where folks can take a “Find Your Skills” quiz or create their own inventions out of Tinker toys and all manner of other objects. Visitors are encouraged to take digital photos of their “ideas” and post them online. Here’s a quick look at what Bill and Melinda Gates hope will become another Seattle landmark.
The campus grounds of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle.
Another shot of the campus grounds. The building occupies more than 12 acres in downtown Seattle.
William H. Gates Sr. foundation co-chair, and father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, attends an advance media tour of the newly constructed $15 million visitor center of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation $500 million campus.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates listens while his wife Melinda Gates talks about the center’s features.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates looks at a display in the visitor center. Most of the displays are interactive.
Melinda Gates lifts a pail of clean water, as Gates looks on. Part of the center’s role is to show how the world’s water supply is a critical resource and how unsafe sanitation threatens good portions of the world’s population.
Gates and his wife Melinda talk at the opening of the center which the foundation expects will inform the public about the work the group does and how it develops programs to help developing countries.
Melinda Gates talks about the interactive exhibits.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates takes a look around the new center.
The architecture and campus grounds of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are here in a shot from the Space Needle's observation deck in Seattle.
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