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Moshe Safdie’s Salt Lake City Public Library is a dramatic Modern building that recognizes the continuing civic importance of the library in new and compelling ways. A glass-covered, curved walkway borders the stacks. Opposite the stacks are remote reading areas, accessible by bridges, with views of the Wasatch Mountains. The building won an AIA Honor Award in 2004 and an AIA/ALA Library Building Award in 2005.
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I'm surprised you didn't publish a picture of building #69, The Salt Lake City Main Library (in my home town).
There are four pix at http://www.slcpl.lib.ut.us/details.jsp?parent_id=7&page_id=5
The exterior view at http://www.slcpl.lib.ut.us/media/images/upd/79163.jpg might be the most useful.
Posted by D.C.Davis | February 10, 2007 7:21 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 19:21
Go Safdie! I drove past his library in downtown Vancouver, saw it for all of 20 seconds and it burned into my memory.
(Architecture fans: check out the 'Couve's downtown. It'll drive you crazy in a good way.)
I'd go to SLC just to drive past this one.
Posted by Craig Johnson | March 15, 2007 6:17 PM
Posted on March 15, 2007 18:17
This library is by far the most beautiful new building in SLC. Absolutely AMAZING!!! Your attention is always drawn to it when you drive or walk by because of its unique curved shape. It was also America's 'Library of the Year' for 2006.
Posted by Timothy W. | March 21, 2007 9:09 PM
Posted on March 21, 2007 21:09