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“I think this is one of the only places in Seattle where people can come and everybody is the same.” Christopher Hogan, Security Officer Created for the exhibition "Culture:City" curated by the architects Mathias Sauerbruch (Sauerbruch/Hutton) and Wilfried Wang, Akademie der Künste Berlin
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