{"id":2513,"date":"2004-05-20T18:40:22","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T08:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/21\/seattle-central-library-everybodys-talking-about-it\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:27:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:27:56","slug":"seattle-central-library-everybodys-talking-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/20\/seattle-central-library-everybodys-talking-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Central Library: Everybody&#8217;s talking about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on my lunch, I noticed that the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/\" title=\"Seattle Post-Intelligencer\">Seattle PI<\/a> had a <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/specials\/library\/\" title=\"Seattle Public Library\">special section<\/a> on the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spl.org\/\" title=\"The Seattle Public Library\">Seattle Central Library<\/a>. I snagged a copy, and spent a very pleasant lunch reading about the new building.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the new library has been getting a <em>ton<\/em> of press as of late. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/33201\" title=\"If Picasso ever painted a library, it might look like this.\">mention on MetaFilter<\/a> led me to quite a few different links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Seattle P-I: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/specials\/library\/\" title=\"Seattle Public Library\">Special section on the new library<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Seattle Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/news\/local\/library\/\" title=\"Seattle's New Library\">Special section on the new library<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Slate: <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2100726\/\" title=\"Koolhaas the Librarian\">Koolhaas the Librarian &#8211; Critic&#8217;s won&#8217;t keep quiet about the Seattle Public Library<\/a>. &#8220;Rem Koolhaas, the Stones to Frank Gehry&#8217;s Beatles, finally surpasses his rival in star-chitecture. The Californian&#8217;s MIT Center got mixed reviews recently, but the Dutchman&#8217;s new library earns florid, Bilbao-like superlatives, confirming that architecture criticism is still in its Baroque period.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The New Yorker: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/printable\/?critics\/040524crsk_skyline\" title=\"The Skyline\">High-Tech Bibliophilia<\/a>. &#8220;The &#91;building&#93; is the most important new library to be built in a generation, and the most exhilarating.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The New York Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/16\/arts\/design\/16MUSC.html?ex=1400040000&amp;en=5aa4b4f3be0c79c7&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND\" title=\"The Library That Puts on Fishnets and Hits the Disco\">The Library That Puts on Fishnets and Hits the Disco<\/a>. &#8220;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&#8217;s going to be a whole lot of rubbernecking going on.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Pacific Northwest: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/pacificnw\/2004\/0425\/cover.html\" title=\"Meet your New Central Library\">Meet your New Central Library<\/a>. &#8220;Somehow this glass box conveys not coldness but intimacy. The result is not just a library, but a community hub and global showplace that transcends its own city block between Madison and Spring streets. It reaches out and melds with the downtown towers around it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am <em>so<\/em> there for the grand opening on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Cabaret (from Cabaret)&#8221; by Haworth, Jill from the album <em>Broadway: The Great Original Cast Recordings<\/em> (1966, 4:31).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of links to information, photographs, and reviews of the new Seattle Central Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}