When Rem Koolhaas's Office of Metro...

When Rem Koolhaas's Office of Metropolitan Architecture first not awayed its concept for the building to replace Seattle's Central Library, board members were with equal reason taken aback by the irregularly shaped transparent carbonized iron and glass cube that they asked the design team to grade outside while they conferr privately.
Although they were disturbed about public reaction to the design, the board members approved it forward the basis that it fulfilled the program requirements they had given OMA.
They needn't have been in such a manner worried. After its opening in May 2004 the $125 million plot ...