Exploring the overlap of virtual and physical
Ever since I moved from Korea to Seattle in August of this year, I’ve been looking for a good place to buy kimchi. There is the Seattle area Korean supermarket, H-Mart, one in Lynnwood and the other in Federal Way, where I know they’ll have a good kimchi. I live in downtown Seattle – without wheels….
Central Library, Seattle, USA (Rem Koolhaas, OMA) How does a public library cope in a digital age? How does a physical space handle a virtual classification system such as the Dewey Decimal system, and continuously changing needs? In the Seattle Public Library’s Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas / OMA, books stacks run in a…