Sleepless in Seattle again: Part 1

From Juneau, we flew to Seattle (for our first trip to Seattle, see here).

Sights in Seattle. Safeco Field, Seattle Mariners' baseball field: King Street Station:
Seattle City Hall:

And the reason why we were so excited coming back to Seattle, the Seattle Public Library (designed by Rem Koolhaas) and this time it was open!
Check out the angles...:
Sexy...:
So is the interior:

It was close to overwhelming:
Not too glaring and not too dark, it was perfect:
This is the third floor by the way (called the 'Living Room'). There are two entrances, from either Fifth (goes to the third floor) or Fourth Avenue (first floor). The second floor is not accessible to public.
The fourth floor is called the 'Red Hall'. This is where all the meeting rooms are. Everything was so red and organic:
Fifth floor, the mixed media room: The sixth to ninth storey is where the 'spiral' is:

You walk up this series of ramps which houses bookshelves and reading stations.

Till you reach the top floor:
Cam-whoring in the middle of a busy library:
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And this was the children's section (all the way down in first floor):

Generally, beautiful library but it does not have well-maintained toilets. The toilets look beyond 'hawker-centre' dirty with all the grafitti and questionable characters lurking inside. Simply parasitic on an otherwise monumental library.