Warming up to ‘Rock Star’ architecutre
Seattle is fortunate to have our new public library. The building designed by the Rem Koolhas team struck the city as a controversial landmark. The conventional library that existed before this has been completely rethought, and reorganized. While I have enjoyed the public space and the experience moving throughout the new library, I found it difficult to understand the functionality of the space.
After seeing the design process for the library explained on the TED site, I warmed up to appreciating the building in a whole new way. Any frustration I had with the inefficiencies of finding books and changed to admiration in the buildings scalability for accepting new stacks and technology as they evolve and grown into the space.
Here is a video of the design process explained by Joshua Prince-Ramus at a TED conference.
August 21st, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Hey Brett, check out this article by a former writing teacher of mine. He’s the architecture critic for the P.I.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/ae/309029_architecture27.html
I found it interesting especially since I’ve had trouble finding a bathroom in the place.
-Kirk