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photo: Carol M. Highsmith
The central tower of Goodhue’s library is topped with a tiled mosaic pyramid. The architect modeled the building on his design for the Nebraska State Capitol. In both, Goodhue integrates the classical and the modern. The German-born artist Lee Lawrie sculpted many of the bas-relief figures that adorn the concrete building.
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The library has a very nice site on the architecture and decoration of the central library:
http://www.lapl.org/central/art_architecture.html
and there is this handsome site:
http://www.waltlockley.com/lalibrary/lalibrary.htm
The two fires in 1986 lead to extensive renovation of the library.
Posted by Matthew Gilmore | February 17, 2007 5:45 PM
Posted on February 17, 2007 17:45