Sleepless in Seattle again: Part 2

Views of downtown Seattle: SAM, no, not Singapore Art Museum but Seattle Art Museum:
Interior:
Pike Market, famous for the fresh produce and fish:
The most famous fish stall in the entire market:The fishmongers throw the fish to the packer like baseball. Good gimmick. The audience love that:
Coming out of Alaska, I am sick of seafood!
One of the fishmonger:
The rest of the market and street scene:
Fried oysters and shrimp:

The market is huge!:
Well, technically it should not be called a market:
Zic and the world's tallest man... Zic has just the right height:
Another famous Seattle attraction just next door: Seattle Aquarium:

And the Seattle docks:
SAM again, this time the Olympic Sculpture Park:

A view of the Space Needle:
More of the park:
Interesting monstrous sculptures:
And another visit to the Space Needle (we went up the last time we came; see here for pictures):
Then it was time to bid farewell to Seattle.

And hello Boston.

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:
...:
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.