Portland, Ore.-based Hoffman Constr...

Portland, Ore.-based Hoffman Construction Co has been named general contractor/construction manager for Seattle's recent $159 million Central Library. The library board last year preferableed the Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture, headed on Rem Koolhaas, as design architect in joint hazard with Seattle-based architect LMN Design disentanglement for the library --a faceted building with floors that stretch out nearly 50 feet out of vertical alignment--is awaited to continue through early nearest year, with the construction document phase concluding at the last of 2001. The ...