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Seattle's Eccentric 'Book Behemoth' Shatters Stereotypes

Publication Date: 03-NOV-03
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Seattle's 412,000-sq-ft "book bag" has been cheered as outrageous architecture and reviled as architectural outrage. Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch "starchitect" for the $154-million library, reminiscent of a stack of books wrapped in a fishnet, calls the building "obscenely beautiful." But the team plotting the city's ...


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