A Quotable Philly.com Article on the design inspiration for the renovation and expansion of the Central Branch of the city’s Free Library at 19th and Vine Streets.
architect Moshe Safdie:
“I have a passion for libraries,” Safdie told a group of about 75 people who had gathered in the center hall of the library’s ground floor. “They are potentially real community centers.”
Safdie said the library “must be extroverted, it must reach out, and, if I may use the word, it must be seductive.”
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