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Seattle Central Library
This document is about the Seattle Central Library, highlighting that over half of Seattle's population holds a bachelor's degree or higher, necessitating an exceptional library for such an educated city. The library is praised as being exciting yet functional, expressing the heart of Seattle, and has received awards including the 2005 AIA Award for Architecture and being named one of America's 150 favorite structures by the AIA in 2007. It hints that the architect behind this acclaimed library design is renowned but leaves their name for the reader to deduce.
Seattle Central Library
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- 2. In the U.S.,27.4% of the adult population holds a bachelor’s degree or higher.
- 3. But in Seattle,that figure jumps to a whopping 53.8% of the population!
- 4. For a citythis educated, you can’t build just any library…
- 5. …and this isn’tjust any library!
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- 8. …this library both inhabits and expressesthe heart of Seattle.
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- 10. One of America’s 150Favorite Structures in the U.S. - AIA List 2007
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