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(*****) much-hyped, over-ventilated in general press

[Seattle Central Library] *** hEadlines

Dewey run
"Of Seattle's public process, Koolhaas said: 'I think it's working out fairly well.' ..." (Phuong Le, spi_00.05.04)

Benaroya Hall
"I'm amazed by both the complexity and simplicity of it," (City Librarian Deborah C. Jacobs, in Phuong Le, spi_00.05.04)

hit his stride
" ... has the potential to be the finest contemporary civic structure on the West Coast, surpassing the Getty complex in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the libraries of Phoenix and Vancouver, B.C.' ..." (Glenn Weiss, Seattle Post-Intelligencer architecture critic, quoted in Regina Hackett, spi_00.04.17)

relish
"Soon after he was chosen, he replied to the question of what the library might look like by saying he prided himself on having no preconceptions but relished the 'opportunity to work on such a stable symbol of collective life.' " (Regina Hackett, spi_00.04.17)

lanky
"the architect designed the library not simply to be 'eccentric' but to make a splash in a town known for dull architecture." (Phuong Le, spi_99.12.16)

ribbing
"It's so different that it takes a while to absorb," (Joan Amatucci, of the Friends of the Library, in Phuong Le, spi_99.12.16)

lap it up
"He literally mapped the program and then it became the form ... I'm blown away." (Leslie Gamel, an architect who peeked and peered at the model before the presentation, in Phuong Le, spi_99.12.16)

v e d e t t e b a n k c u r r e n c y i n d e x
f r i e n d l y p l u g s
(*****) manic-ly promoted, in architectural press

(*****) massively-ballyhooed, in architectural - and general - press

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h o s t i l e f i r e
(*****) intensely scrutinized, in general - and architectural - press

o f f t h e r a d a r
(*****) EXile -- shunning/shunned from publicity

s u p e r m o d e l h y p e r c a r d b o a r d
u l t i m a t e m e d i a h y p e

barely drawn -- on front-pages/ cover-pages of general press

p e n u l t i m a t e

barely built -- on coverpages of non-architectural/ design/ art press - prior to construction

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d u s t - m a s t e r

b_a_r_e_l_y -- on coverpages - prior to occupation

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p e e r p r e s s u r e

barely dry -- blanketing trade rags

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iconic locator
"Paul Allen is a very easy person to like. He's shy and not the big mogul the world sees. I said to him, what do you want? And he said, I want 'swoopy.' It was a funny thing he said. But it was really very sweet, you know? So I brought him to the office, and I said, what's swoopy here that you like?" (Frank O Gehry in Cathleen McGuigan, nwk_99.11.22)
horse's head
"We talked about broken guitars, and I did remember Jimi Hendrix breaking guitars onstage. There's a guitar shop right near our office in Santa Monica; the guy makes these electric guitars. We got a bunch of broken chunks of guitar, piled them all up and started to look at the colors. In the end, I made one of the parts of the building the Purple Haze. It's really beautiful." (Frank O Gehry, in Cathleen McGuigan, nwk_99.11.22)

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