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The Seattle Central Library redefines the library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but as an information store where all potent forms of media—new and old—are ...
The Library has centers for children, teens and adult readers, along with expanded collections and a large computer lab. It also has underground parking for about 143 vehicles. Central Library Highlights.
We offer free tours of the Central Library for groups of 5-20 adults between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Request a Group Tour for Adults Find out about Group Visits for Youth. Take a guided or self-guided tour of the Central Library.
The new Central Library opened May 23, 2004. The 11-floor building contains an innovative "Books Spiral," a 275-seat auditorium, and open spaces where patrons can meet, study, search the web or read. The Library has centers for children, teens and adult readers, along with expanded collections and a large computer lab.
At a moment when libraries are perceived to be under threat from a shrinking public realm on one side and digitization on the other, the Seattle Central Library creates a civic space for the circulation of knowledge in all media, and an innovative organizing system for an ever-growing physical collection – the Books Spiral.
The Seattle Central Library is the flagship library of the Seattle Public Library system. The 11-story (185 feet or 56.9 meters high) glass and steel building in the downtown core of Seattle, Washington was opened to the public on May 23, 2004.
The 11-story, over 350,000-square-foot Seattle Central Library opened in May 2004 at a cost of almost $170 million, its unusual form rising amidst a series of stately, modernist, high-rise office towers and public buildings.
Central Library Architecture. The new Central Library is the eighth project completed under the 1998 voter-approved Libraries for All building program. Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas designed the new building in a joint venture with Seattle-based LMN Architects.
The striking glass and steel Central Library building has served as an architectural landmark in the city since it was completed in 2004. However, the branch has gone through many location changes and building iterations since Seattle’s book-borrowing system first launched in the late 1880s…
The Seattle Central Library is a striking, iconic element of the Seattle skyline designed by world-renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. Its architectural significance and receptive ideology make it the most-visited site in the city, drawing almost 2 million visitors annually.