Why libraries?  Well....

We headed out to the refinished central public library for a quick walk-through after it reopened this year.  They've been working it over for two years.

Front Entryway

Ceiling detail

ceiling detail

again, closer detail

Central reading room with two pauperized miscreants

Chandelier detail

Nice cafe - too bad they haven't found a vendor yet.  Hope they like orange.

Nice use of lighting to make basement level tolerable - this was a trollish dungeon before.

The most modest of all the new rooms

The DREAM art is really just a curtain to split the room

The children's reading room

Neato touchscreen workgroup pods for business or pleasure

The patron saint of Missouri letters, St. Mark

STL hearts Eero Saarinen

The modernist section - I don't know what it looked like before.