
THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURYIV
SEATTLE CENTRAL LIBRARY
SEATTLE CENTRAL LIBRARY SIGN PROGRAM
Seattle, Washington, USA
Bruce Mau Design (est. 1985), Designers
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Office of Metropolitan Architecture (est. 1975),
Architects
Rotterdam, Netherlands
2004
The Seattle Public Library, covering an area
of 355,209 square feet (33,000 sq m), was
designed by the Office of Metropolitan Architec-
ture (OMA) under the direction of Rem Koolhaus
(b. 1944) and opened in 2004. This striking and
innovative building, a central feature of the
city’s cultural and communal life, houses a vast
number of books, official publications, periodi-
cals, audiovisual ...