link broken....

It works, it just goes to Times Select, which is a pay service. What's your password?

So sorry. Should be fixed.

Let's not be coy - the designer is the oh-so-fashionable Dutch architect, Rem Koolhaas. Check out the Maplethorpe exhibit at the Las Vegas Guggenheim.

http://www.guggenheimlasvegas.org/exhibition_331_page_17.html

Hey Jen

May I suggest using the NYTimes RSS Link Generator ....

http://nytimes.blogspace.com/genlink

A bookmarklet that generates NYT RSS link - which are permanent links - which don't expire - (in 7 days NYT puts the article behind subscription) - SLOGgers can still access it.

Regards,
Sanjeev

A World-Famous Architect Goes Home to Cornell
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/arts/design/19corn.html?ex=1316318400&en=bcff71770e1cf516&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Jen, have you read the OMA/Koohlaas/Prada/Bertelli book about the Prada Projects? It is stunning and brilliant and furious and makes me want to cry a little bit.

As always, the theories and concepts extend beyond what actually came to fruition, but considering the year in which all of the ideas were explored and documented, I'd have to say OMA was not even looking futureward so much as heavenward. I'll let you borrow it, if you'd like.

The Seattle Public Library is the most important building in the twenty first century. It will set the standard for world architecture for the next one hundred years. The reason it feels like an airport inside is because it's a space for thoughts to take flight.

To World Class,

Your sarcasm is palpable.

Those who say the downtown library is world class have either:

1. never been outside of Seattle
2. never been to the downtown library
3. been to the library once (maybe twice) but never to locate and check out materials
4. drank WAY too much of the machine's Kool Aid!

I can't read inside the downtown library. It gives me a migraine, and all the weirdly colored, oddly shaped spaces inside are nausea-inducing. What use is a library where you cannot sit and read?

Then again, as far as I could tell from when I worked there, at least half the reason the downtown library existed was to provide a public toilet and place to sleep for the homeless population of downtown. That's one damned expensive public toilet.

You're behind the times, Geni. Now the main purpose is toilets, sleeping, and viewing of internet pornography for the homeless.