The Seattle Public Library: forward-looking, intelligent, jazzy, cool, open to all (even the homeless), filled with ideas and art and computers and a fun auditorium and people from all over and commerce (a shop and coffee cart) and books for learning everywhere. In many ways, it functions like infrastructure. The original library sign in contained within, but its surface is striking and new. All this and it's on the Pacific Rim, from an international design team. Hooray for Barack!
Great comparison! Seattle Public Library is one of the smartest, boundary-pushing buildings of our age. It strongly supports the city and supports international, interconnected, what they call "cosmopolitan," citizenship.
images and passage from:
http://edwardlifson.blogspot.com/2009/01/if-obama-were-building-part-ii.html
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