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| SEATTLE CENTRAL LIBRARY Sunday, May 3, 2009 Continuing our Play-Tourist-in-Seattle tour, after the Smith Tower we walked up to the Seattle Central Library to admire its architecture. The library opened in 2004 and was a great improvement on the ugly 1960s monstrosity it replaced. The lead designer was world-renowned architect, Rem Koolhaas, from the Netherlands. The experience of walking through the building is like no other. You don't feel like you are in a building. You expect at any moment that the building will lift off into space. There's a small gift shop for visitors, where I bought a collection of Shakespeare insult pins. After the architecture, my favorite features of the library are the convenient and relatively cheap underground parking, the excellent children's section, the extensive collection of foreign language books, and the bright yellow escalators running up the interior of the building. Photo Album The Seattle Public Library About the Central Library Architecture.About.com Who is Rem Koolhaas? by Bob Kelly http://www.BobsPacificBeachHouse.com |
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