Seattle Public Library
OMA’s Seattle Library : The programmatic spaces were conceived as compartments in a vertical stack: the building’s physical shape emerged from the pushing or pulling of forms in one direction or another. Such manipulations created four dramatically different façades, each undulating with recessions and cantilevered projections. The entire building is wrapped in a mesh skin of diamond-shaped panes of glass (much like a fishnet stocking) set into a matching steel grid that operates as both a transparent curtain wall and part of the structural system.
