This Sunday's
The Seattle Times: Pacific Northwest Magazine has a great article about the controversial and soon to be opened Seattle public library designed by
Rem Koolhaas. What looked like a gamble a few years ago turned into prescience for Seattle when
Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize a year after getting the commission.
I can't wait to check out the building from the inside in late May. And I like this quote from the article: "the bizarre shape could not have been agreed to a year earlier or a year later. A year earlier Seattle lacked the sophistication for the gamble, and a year later the dot-com boom had gone bust. This is a time capsule of civic chutzpah."
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