She helps rearrange and stack the boxes of seafood in the freezer but can't make it all fit.

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Americans will recognize the building as looking like a stack of Chinese take-out boxes.

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That shift is also much in evidence at the Seattle Public Library, a diamond-scaled stack of origami-folded glass boxes that opened to considerable acclaim almost a decade ago.

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