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[saavedra77]

Images of the new (well, year-old) Seattle Public Library (about which I was ranting to tafkar,  a couple weeks back):

I'm particularly fond of the green holographic faces and (could you tell ...?) the all-blood-red mezzanine.  Wonder that anyone actually gets any research done, in there, though ... 

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[morganminstrel.livejournal.com]

I was there a few days after it opened last year getting a book for a research paper and my reaction was that it was amazing and breathtaking, but I wasn't sure how well it'd do as a working library. (It looked to me like it'd be easy for people to get lost looking for stuff, corridors would get clogged easily, etc.) That's still kinda my impression.

But it sure looks purty. :-)

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

I've never had trouble finding things, there, just concentrating ...!

[sarrabellum.livejournal.com]

I haven't been back since our first visit (with you), but I really am quite in love with it.

The red areas look, for all the world, like "Magic Schoolbus Goes Inside Your Veins."

I need to go back.

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

TOTALLY! I think of the mezzanine as the library's coronary artery & all of us passing through it as corpuscles ...