Seattle Central Library Part 3

Not sure why this didn't post last week! My final thoughts on the Seattle Central Library. Building is quite stark with touches of whimsy like the neon green escaltors and these holographs. Main collection organized in a "spiral" around a central core that I personally found confusing...and impossible to photograph. As Library Director Susan Hildreth said over dinner (bearing in mind she wasn't in that job when the library was built) "the architect won". In summary - very interesting layout but lots of functional issues, and I'm not sure how well it will age. But also clearly very well used by a very diverse, mostly adult, downtown population.