Languages:

Topics:

The Seattle Central Library

10th January 2010

The Seattle Central Library, Level 3

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:

  1. Read a book (it is a library, after all)
  2. Grab a table and do whatever you want on your laptop
  3. Use one of dozens public computers available to study, do research or work
  4. Look for a job; I believe they have some kind of community program for that
  5. 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):

Seattle Central Library, Level 3

Levels six through nine have main books collection. Here are some bookshelves from the eight level:

Seattle Central Library, Level 8

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?