NYTimes - The Library That Puts on Fishnets and Hits the Disco

Hre is the NYTimes story that Tara was passing around.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/arts/design/16MUSC.html

NYTimes

AT a dark hour, Seattle's new Central Library is a
blazing chandelier to swing your dreams upon. If an
American city can erect a civic project as brave as
this one, the sun hasn't set on the West. In more than
30 years of writing about architecture, this is the
most exciting new building it has been my honor to
review. I could go on piling up superlatives like cars
in a multiple collision, but take my word: there's
going to be a whole lot of rubbernecking going on.

The new library, which opens next Sunday, was designed
by Rem Koolhaas/OMA of the Netherlands in
collaboration with the Seattle firm LMN Architects.
Joshua Ramus of OMA was the partner in charge. It is
the centerpiece of an ambitious initiative to revamp
and expand Seattle's library system citywide. This is
Seattle, don't forget: a city where fortunes have been
made on the premise that books, and even cities, may
be rendered obsolete by digital technology. Yet this
new library sets an example for cities nationwide.


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Sanjeev Narang
email: ask-(/at/)-eConsultant.com
http://www.sanjeev.net




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