The Seattle Central Library
10th January 2010
The Seattle Central Library is one of the best things I saw here, in the United States. Not only it has a pretty large collection of books, its building is very beautiful. The 11-story glass and steel building in downtown Seattle, it has wonderful interior, gets tons of natural light and contains a lot of reading spots with power sockets and free wireless internet. And it is free to use for everybody (well, at least I paid nothing and nobody stopped me).
Inside the building you can do several things:
- Read a book (it is a library, after all)
- Grab a table and do whatever you want on your laptop
- Use one of dozens public computers available to study, do research or work
- Look for a job; I believe they have some kind of community program for that
- Or you can just wonder around noting all the small things architects and interior designers thought about (I was doing that for almost an hour and now I am on the third floor, typing this text)
Level 3 (exit to fifth avenue is on the left):
Levels six through nine have main books collection. Here are some bookshelves from the eight level:
Elevators in the library are super cool:
(another picture of another elevator)
And, the most gorgeous, level 10:
I seriously envy some people who work here. Look at this office space, isn’t it nice?
