Seattle Central Library architect Rem Koolhaas will return to the library to give a free talk at 2 p.m. Sept. 13 in the auditorium. It will be Koolhaas' first public talk in Seattle since the Central ...

The 11-level Central branch opened its doors to the public in May of 2004 to many excited fans of Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch architect who helped design the building alongside Joshua Ramus. Many visit ...

If you expect a public library to sit quietly with its hands folded, the new Seattle Central Library is not for you. It has a lunging, irregular exterior wrapped in folds of glass covered with a ...

The new century has not been kind to Rem Koolhaas. It had dawned with such spectacular fireworks: the awarding of the Pritzker Prize to the Dutch designer in May 2000. Koolhaas received architecture's ...

THE SOFT SMELL of paper wafts down from towering shelves and crisp paper crackles as it turns under curious hands. Quiet voices murmur through the hushed halls of the library, a sense of peaceful ...

The sharp-tongued architect and professor built Manhattan’s most luxurious towers, but his new book shuttles from Billionaires’ Row to the Bronx. (Plus, what he thinks of Rem and Zaha.) By Jason ...