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The 11-story Central Library has a capacity for over 1.5 million books, in comparison to only 900,000 in the old library building. [15] The architects also worked to make the library inviting to the public, rather than stuffy, which they discovered was the popular perception of libraries as a whole.
Rem Koolhaas inspecting the Seattle Central Library model in 2005. Koolhaas first came to public and critical attention with OMA (The Office for Metropolitan Architecture), the office he founded in 1975 together with architects Elia Zenghelis, Zoe Zenghelis and (Koolhaas's wife) Madelon Vriesendorp in London.
The Seattle Central Library was completed and opened to the public on May 23, 2004. [10] In 2005, the library earned a national American Institute of Architects Honor Award for Architecture. [ 11 ] The building has also been described as "the most important new library to be built in a generation, and the most exhilarating" by New Yorker ...
Seattle Central Library. Seattle The flagship of the Seattle Public Library is an architectural delight, a study in angles, steel, and glass. Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus of OMA/LMN were ...
Central Library, looking south on Fifth Avenue The Occidental Block in 1900; to its rear left is a corner of the Collins Block, still standing as of 2008. The Seattle Public Library (SPL) is the public library system serving the city of Seattle, Washington. Efforts to start a Seattle library had commenced as early as 1868, with the system ...
The current Central Library is the third on the site, preceded by a Beaux-Arts Carnegie library (built 1904–1906, demolished 1957) designed by Peter J. Weber, a German-born architect from Chicago [215] [216] and an International Style replacement opened 1960, with Bindon & Wright as the primary architect and Decker Christenson & Kitchin as ...
These are the 26 most beautiful libraries in the world to add to your literary bucket list in 2024.
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