Three years after the Seattle Central Library opened to starbursts of praise, including mine, I am trying to understand why, when I need to spend a working day at a library, I retreat to the Bellevue ...

On a Wednesday morning, I climbed up the iconic bright chartreuse escalators in the OMA-designed Seattle Central Library. Before I had reached the Living Room—the main public room on the third floor—I ...

Now that the first visitors have gotten under the celebrated structural skin of the new Seattle Central Library, nothing looks the same. Other downtown buildings towering outside look both closer and ...