On the outside, the building appears to be crouching. Inside, it leaps to serve you on platforms floating in cocoons of colored light. Crouching tiger, leaping building: If Rem Koolhaas' new library ...

The 11-level Central branch opened its doors to the public in May of 2004 to many excited fans of Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch architect who helped design the building alongside Joshua Ramus. Many visit ...

Seattle Central Library architect Rem Koolhaas will return to the library to give a free talk at 2 p.m. Sept. 13 in the auditorium. It will be Koolhaas' first public talk in Seattle since the Central ...

If you expect a public library to sit quietly with its hands folded, the new Seattle Central Library is not for you. It has a lunging, irregular exterior wrapped in folds of glass covered with a ...