Seattle Public Library

The Seattle Central Library opened in 2004 and was designed by Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in a joint venture with LMN Architects and Front Inc. Facade Consultants. In 2007, the building was voted #108 on the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) list of Americans’ 150 favorite structures in the U.S. The building received a 2005 national AIA Honor Award for Architecture.