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Article: A NEW LIBRARY? THE SPLIT-BUILDING SCHEME A BAD IDEA.(P-I Focus)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 8, 1998
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In recent weeks I have been dismayed to learn of a new proposal that would create the new downtown Seattle Public Library by combining a new building on the site at First Avenue and Pike Street (which would also include new private development, possibly an apartment tower and/or hotel) with reuse of the lower levels of the failed Newmark Building. This idea seems to me to be so clearly ill conceived, I cannot imagine why it might be seriously considered.
If accepted, this proposal will result in a significantly flawed building measured in terms of function, in terms of urban design, and in terms of confusion between what is public and what is private.
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