I'm excited to see the new downtown library in Seattle up close next time I visit. This is what Herbert Muschamp of the NY Times has to say:
The Library That Puts on Fishnets and Hits the Disco
By HERBERT MUSCHAMPPublished: May 16, 2004
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.
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...and the old library was so beautiful too.
Posted by: lou | June 03, 2004 at 10:31 PM
I can't really remeber what it looked like.
Posted by: MC | June 04, 2004 at 01:49 AM