Joshua Prince-Ramus: Designing the Seattle Central Library
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Office for Metropolitan Architecture: Seattle Public Library $14.98 OMA’s design for the Seattle Public Library–one of the firm’s most heavily anticipated projects to date–begins with a radical rethinking of the very nature of the library. If the library exists today as a threatened sanctuary, it has been done in by its own stubborn reliance on one kind of literacy and its consequent blindness to other emerging forms that increasingly dominate our culture, espec… |
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Process: Seattle Central Library $9.94 Process: Seattle Central Library is an intimate glimpse into the creation of one of the most unique buildings in the world through the camera of architectural photographer, Lara Swimmer. With over 90 spectacular images spanning the entire 32 months of construction, this book provides a tour of Seattles Central Library from the ground up. From the vision of principle architect, Rem Koolhaas, to t… |
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