The Library That Puts on Fishnets and Hits the Disco

A NYTimes Piece takes a look at the new Seattle library, which opens next Sunday, designed by Rem Koolhaas/OMA of the Netherlands in collaboration with the Seattle firm LMN Architects. The library’s exterior is an angular composition of folded planes. Walls are of glass, supported by a diagonal grid of light blue metal that covers almost the entire surface. At first glance, the irregular angles, folds and shapes seem arbitrary. The building’s structure is hard to discern, and the overall grid pattern looks like a perverse exaggeration of the abstract geometries used by mid-20th-century architects for decorative relief.

The article also includes a slide show of the interior. The escalators and elevators are painted bright chartreuse.

May 16, 2004 by Uncategorized 0

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