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From "Mayor Braves the Mies Mystique," subtitled "Aging Building's Architectural Fame Obscures City's Needs, Council Told," from the Washington Post:

Several community advocates testified that the main library, built by renowned German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, should be renovated and maintained as a historic landmark. Others asked that city officials weigh the costs of construction against renovation before making a decision.

"I'm torn," Richard Layman of the Citizens Planning Coalition said after he testified. "The current library stinks. But it is bigger than the proposed new central library. I don't want a new library that's smaller, but the jury's out whether that building can be fixed."

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