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2004 · Seattle, Seattle, United States

Seattle Central Library image

Public Library in Seattle, Washington

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Seattle Central Library

Seattle, Seattle, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Public Library in Seattle, Washington

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Comparison

Field	Seattle Central Library 2004 · Seattle, Seattle, United States	Douglas Cardinal Architect 1964 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2004	1964
Place	Seattle, Seattle, United States	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Place context	Seattle, Seattle, United States	Representative site: Gatineau, Gatineau, Canada
Climate	15°C · 13.9h daylight · 4 km/h wind	2°C · 13.7h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via Canadian Museum of History
Focus	Architecture	3 works in corpus
Architects	Rem Koolhaas	Douglas Cardinal
Linked context	Bureaus OMA	Notable works Canadian Museum of History Telus World of Science Edmonton National Museum of the American Indian
Typologies	library	museum house performance venue landscape
Materials	glass steel	timber
Carbon signals	Steel and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Steel Glass	The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.