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- Seattle Central Library -- Rem Koolhaas/OMA, LMN Architects Seattle; Ove Arup & Partners
2004 (Randy Ragg): 363,000-square-foot (1999: 355,000-square-foot, 15-story)
"only 32 percent of the library square footage is devoted to books"
"it has rooms for its book collection to double to 1.45 million volumes"
2004 (Paul Goldberger): $165 million; (1999: $156 million)
2004 (William Dietrich): $165.5 million, including $10 million for temporary library. About $14 million comes from the private donations.
$273 per square foot; San Fransisco Library $480 per square foot (William Dietrich).
$196.4 million capital plan, known as Libraries for All, plus $80 million privately raised,
include 5 branch libraries and the overhauling of 22.
Opened May 23, 2004. (1999: scheduled to open 2003)
{also-ran: Steven Holl, "a Bremerton-raised architect"}
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