Rem Koolhaas OMA Seattle Public Library Seattle, Washington 
With the project for Seattle Public Library, Rem Koolhaas once again demonstrates with great skill and intuition, as architecture can establish complex relationships, articulate, synergies with the urban landscape. Reference strong in the Seattle skyline, the library-opened in May of 2004 - lives in a monolithic, compact, like a wedge, but multi-faceted and open to the city and its flows . "We wanted to create a sense of moving Between urban spaces and not spaces in a building, "says Joshua Ramus, who collaborated with Koolhaas.
Its internal organization is revolutionizing the traditional concept of a library: it becomes an urban space, an urban cell of the organism, a busy square closed to not only by scholars but also by passing that in the "Living Room" can spend time to relax, socialize, read in an informal manner, connect to the Internet.
The library then becomes a space for everyone, young and old, to researchers or even curious. It becomes an environment that calls for its exploration, abandoning the stereotype of the typological classification. Reads the book concept for the project: "(...) new libraries do not reinvent or even modernize the traditional institution; They Merely package it in a new way. "
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