Summary: Joshua Prince-Ramus grew up on Bainbridge Island and it was his mother who first learned about the Central Library project. She notified her son, then a partner at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture with Rem Koolhaas in the Netherlands. OMA and LMN Architects of Seattle were selected to design the Central Library. When they unveiled their initial ideas for the Library in late 1999 at Benaroya Hall, television monitors had to be set up outside the hall to accommodate the overflow crowd. Prince-Ramus now heads his own firm, REX, in New York City. REX recently completed the AT&T Performing Arts Center Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas, and the Vakko Fashion Center and Power Media Center in Istanbul, Turkey, which opened to critical acclaim.
