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Central Library Preliminary Design Images
On Dec. 15, 1999, Rem Koolhaas of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture presented preliminary designs for Seattle's new central library. The study model displayed last week has returned with the architects to their Rotterdam office. It will be used and altered to study in three dimensions the evolving design of the building. The model represented the first six weeks of a six month initial design phase called "Schematic Design."
More design images will be added to this page as they become available.
Image of Exterior. Photo by Hectic Pictures.
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Image of exterior. December 1999. Office for Metropolitan Architecture with LMN Architects, a Joint Venture.
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Images of exterior with honeycomb "skin." December 1999. Office for Metropolitan Architecture with LMN Architects, a Joint Venture.
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Design scheme courtesy of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Dec. 26, 1999
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Included in print version of editorial, Library's design apt, enlightened, Seattle P.I., 12/26/99 p. G2.
Content Modified: 18 April 2000
12/30/2005
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