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Article: While Frisco opts for more flamboyance. (main library in San Francisco, California)
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- Insight on the News
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- May 27, 1996
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New San Francisco facility reflects the flashiness and variety of California's trendy city.
It is probably the only library in the world that features a gigantic hat in the shape of the White House and a prominently displayed copy of Death of a Transvestite, the bizarre tale by late B-movie director Ed Wood Jr. about a guy on death row whose last wish is to die in women's clothing. But whether one views San Francisco as Byzantium by the Bay or Sodom by the Sea, one thing is certain -- the city's new main library is a civic triumph.
Designed by James Ingo Freed, a partner in the firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, which also designed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial ...