The Seattle Post Intelligencer Is Covering the spiffy new central library in Seattle. It is an education for anyone who thinks of libraries as cozy, softly lit structures with oak bookshelves, a few desks and a card catalog in the center of it all.
This is as far from Carnegie as you can get.
“I don’t think people quite understand what this is. It is really quite spectacular,” Sam Miller, principal with LMN Architects, told reporters and photographers who got a tour of the building yesterday.
Eleven floors are tied together by a honeycomb of steel-framed windows that flood the large high-ceilinged rooms with diffused light.
Seattle Times Has another article as well. In other “big new library” news, the $102.7 million expansion of Downtown Indianapolis Central Library — is about to peek its head above ground, library officials said Monday. One of my favorite areas of the country, Moab, Utah is getting a new library as well.
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