Seattle Public Library

I'll leave the fawning for the critics, but I will mention that Christine and I walked the magnificent new library today. The only negative is the tired joke about Rem Koolhaas' name (Koolhaas = "cool house." Get it? Architectural aptonym. Get it? Get it?). We walked the Dewey stacks from 990 Rest of the World to 000 General Works without once walking down a stair. They handed out little paper cut-out models of the building. Although I'm leaving the words to the more talented writers, I am perfectly willing to besmirch the good name of the fine photographers who have taken much better photos than I could. You can witness it here in my slide show.