OMA's Seattle Central Library (2004) is one of the most radical public buildings of the 21st century: a transparent glass and steel mesh structure that spirals upward through programmatic "platforms" and "mountains." Its continuous book spiral organizes the Dewey Decimal system as a single unbroken ramp, and the fluorescent yellow "mixing chamber" computer lab is unlike any room in any library on Earth.

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