Wired 13.03: The 2005 Wired Rave Awards | Rem Koolhaas: "Latest hit: The new crown jewel of Seattle. Koolhaas and his firm, OMA, didn't set out to build a house of books. The architects wanted to crack a bigger problem: how to store information. A library has to adapt to social and technological change and to the accumulation of books, says Koolhaas.
Novel solution: The Books Spiral, a continuous ramp of shelves winding from the sixth floor up. It holds the library's roughly 750,000 volumes in Dewey Decimal Classification order, and as the collection grows, books can be packed in more densely, maintaining the sequence."
Monday, March 07, 2005
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