Architecture of Bibliotopia: Library Pr0n
Libraries are (or at least should be) magical places. And sometimes they succeed at that beyond imagination. Post your library pr0n here. I'll start things off with the Peabody Library in Baltimore - a wonder of wonders that gives me the same spine-tingling awe as Amiens Cathedral:
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Nice idea for a thread and nice library in Baltimore.
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Great idea for a thread!
I am ashamed to say that I have never been in that Baltimore library, even though it is so close. Here is the Library of Congress, Washington, DC: http://beyonddc.com/privatesets/2006...ba100_7798.jpg my picture http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2701/...cbb3c007_z.jpg from flickr user rien de nouveau And here is the Boston Public Library: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1287/...6c8dcfab_b.jpg by flickr user joseph a http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3538/...b9ac9a61_b.jpg my picture |
Salt Lake City Library:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/o...l/17273875.jpg idahoairships http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3642/...67b4a2c7a6.jpg Salt Lake City Library by Shaan Hurley, on Flickr http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/68...e89f196892.jpg Salt Lake UT (312) by Ken Lund, on Flickr http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3631/...9c155e2624.jpg Salt Lake City Public Library by tmac97slc, on Flickr http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3143/...b78586c604.jpg Salt Lake City Library by informationgoddess29, on Flickr |
Holy crap, that staircase on the outside of the SLC library is kick ass.
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Exeter Library, Lou Kahn:
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The Biltmore library, with approximately 10,000 volumes.
http://primemontgomery.com/wp-conten...-Library72.jpg Source. It's hard to find decent images of the interior of Biltmore House because they don't allow photography inside the structure. In addition to the books -- which you can still peruse if you are a researcher with permission from the Estate -- perhaps the most noteworthy feature of the library is the ceiling. The painting is called The Chariot of Aurora and was taken from a palace in Venice. Here's a link to a good shot that someone snuck inside the library, showing the ceiling. |
Canadian Library of Parliament:
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Anna Amalia Library, Weimar, Germany
http://www.buecher-wiki.ch/uploads/B...aik_schuck.jpg http://www.buecher-wiki.ch/uploads/B...aik_schuck.jpg Grimm Library, Berlin, Germany http://www.moritzhaemmerlein.de/wp-c...bibliothek.jpg http://www.moritzhaemmerlein.de/wp-c...bibliothek.jpg |
Heres the St. Louis Central Library - it's currently being renovated, so these are out of date. It's a Cass Gilbert product circa 1912.
http://visualarts.mit.edu/images/work/kw_stlouis2.jpg http://visualarts.mit.edu/images/work/kw_stlouis2.jpg it used to have this weird glass floor that was pretty beat up. There are also classic old school "library tech" cork floors which are being restored. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3357/...a790f1539a.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/...f485daf017.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/...8e53e170_m.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/...8e53e170_m.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/brickcity/4633478930/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/brickcity/4633478930/ http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/...8d696d6be3.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/...8d696d6be3.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/...ec051b85ba.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/...ec051b85ba.jpg |
Great idea for a thread. I grew up in libraries and love them. Centropolis, thanks for posting the STL library pics. I love that place. Looking forward to seeing it post-renovation.
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I was thinking the the Detroit Public Library - Main Library looked incredibly familiar to St. Louis's inside and out, and then realized they are by the same archtitect. In fact, the one in St. Louis looks like the Detroit Institute of Art right across the street from the Main Library.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/216/5...800111f1_b.jpg anikarenina The other notable branch is the Detroit Public Library - Skillman Branch, which is actually in the heart of downtown (the Main Library is actually a few miles north in Midtown): http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3350/...9046298c_b.jpg Eridony http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/4...5f4e87b5_b.jpg Pinhurst19475 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/10...1b25c334_b.jpg donjoz I love the sayvings around the top of the building, as well as the labeling of the avenues on each end of the building. It's the kind of detail you just don't see, anymore. I'm not a fan of the architecture, but the sheer size of the Library of Michigan in Lansing is impressive. Supposedly, it's the second largest state library in the country. The building includes the state archives and the state historical museum, as well. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/3...43f_z.jpg?zz=1 Mr Niceguy |
Unfortunately almost every library built after 1940 or so are godawful modernist architectural abominations. Almost all of the Carnegie libraries were good looking and a list/photos of them can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library
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Those english libraries are in-sane.
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That's it. I'm moving to England.
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Not sure I would like to be alone in a medieval libraries - lol |
building M-55 @ NRC, ottawa
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/4...ad9b846c_b.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/gandalf_grey/416521287/ bennett library, sfu http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1431/...aee5b6ca_b.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/cattle_class/873622113/ http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3638/...20789799_b.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/weederman/5753382752/ the sugar cube, UWaterloo http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/...4a7f101a_b.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/matt_la...86/2954981029/ http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/...b63987bf_b.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/mseliske/4397618644/ korner @ ubc http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3328/...98c194e7_b.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenccwu/3268823344/ national library & archives, ottawa http://farm1.static.flickr.com/169/4...9a8e8d24_b.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/steve-brandon/434535381/ |
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http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/inrrooms/readingrooms.html The British Library in London was a controversial building. The original library was part of the British Museum with the main reading room being the British Museums reading room which is still in use. The new library was designed to both blend in with the beautiful listed St Pancras station next door, to be very functional and to help regenerate the once seedy St Pancras/Kings Cross Area which was once more famous for prostitution and other such unsavoury activities. The Library opened in 1998 and since this time has become a much loved institution due to it's functionality and it being a driving force in terms of investment in this area of London, with a £600 million Medical Research Centre, the Francis Crick Institution currently being built next door to the library, massive investment in St Pancras International next door (and train journey times between London and Paris set to be cut to less than 2 hours), whilst the whole Kings Cross Area as well as the station are currently undergoing massive redvelopment. http://www.crick.ac.uk/ http://www.kingscrosscentral.com/ http://stpancras.com/ This contrasts with the fortunes of the French National Library, a building designed to shout it's presence as a moument to the late President Mitterrand, and which has been criticised for being windwept, unwelcoming and not meeting the functions of the public it serves. The Parisan Bibliothèque nationale has been plagued with problems not least the fact that they had to buy blinds after they realised the sun streaming through the windows was ruining the books, whilst the windswept space between the French Libraries four main buildings has also been widely criticised. http://www.studio-international.co.u...sh_library.asp http://www.timeout.com/paris/attract...ois-mitterrand The Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris - http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/...600873cc_b.jpg It should however be noted that despite some criticism of it's new building, France's BnF has an amazing collection and is without doubt one of the greatest libraries in the world :) The British Library - Historian David Professor Starkey at the British Libraries 500th Anniversary of Henry VIII Exhibition http://www.bl.uk/henry Business and IP Centre http://www.bl.uk/bipc/ http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/54...9ac1922d_b.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Interior02.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/136/3...598042ca_b.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/162/3...8f4d3a68_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2433/...23771b08_b.jpg http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5226/...abfbba85_b.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/...bbf1538d_b.jpg http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5025/...0deaa839_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3409/...b7389716_b.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4116/...154471e1_b.jpg http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5136/...b586c17c_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2475/...c8a34233_b.jpg http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/...5cfcdb6e_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2044/...e4978a12_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2119/...94a77ddc_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3639/...1ed2ec1f_b.jpg The real star of this area is St Pancras and not the British Library, and the Library was designed with this in mind does, not wishing to detract from the beautiful gothic station and it's surroundings. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2321/...bf8c69b6_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2460/...b4461b08_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2008/...9ed7fa6c_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2381/...486aae8b_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2247/...77db11bc_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2417/...8d4b4a95_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3103/...4d5a445b_b.jpg |
In the United Kingdom the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 restates the Copyright Act 1911, that one copy of every book (which includes pamphlets, magazines and newspapers) published there must be sent to the British Library; five other libraries (the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, Cambridge University Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Library of Trinity College, Dublin and the National Library of Wales) are entitled to request a free copy within one year of publication.
http://www.legaldeposit.org.uk/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_D...aries_Act_2003 National Library of Scotland http://www.nls.uk/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...ry_of_Scotland Sh0rty (flickr) http://farm1.static.flickr.com/51/14...34fcd259_b.jpg The National Library of Wales http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Wales Max_Alex (flickr) http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2200/...409047b0_b.jpg Trinity College Dublin http://www.tcd.ie/Library/epb/history.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library...ollege,_Dublin fisherbray (flickr) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3438/...f4baaa5b_b.jpg |
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I was just thinking of the old library at trinity college... :tup:
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Wills Memorial Library - Bristol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wills_Memorial_Building sbdugdale (flickr) http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbdugda...n/photostream/ http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2266/...776e80e4_o.jpg Brainsky (flickr) http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_san...57624916156003 http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/...5128c2b1_b.jpg Mikepaws (flickr) http://www.flickr.com/photos/2711824...n/photostream/ http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4151/...e7024622_b.jpg Mikepaws (flickr) http://www.flickr.com/photos/2711824...n/photostream/ http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4133/...1b316fcb_b.jpg Mikepaws (flickr) http://www.flickr.com/photos/2711824...n/photostream/ http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/...7bb2dffa_b.jpg |
Europeana -
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/ The European Library - http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org.../en/index.html |
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University of Toronto's Robarts Library, otherwise known as "Fort Book":
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Beauiful Library and many of the Wills factories were beautiful Art Deco buildings like the one in Newcastle which was converted in to apartments :) Here's a link to some of the Carnegie Libraries of Scotland http://www.scotcities.com/carnegie/diverse.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ries_in_Europe :) |
In London alone there are reckoned to be over 21 million academic books held by Higher Education Institutions, with a further 17 million held by London's public lending libraries on top of the 14 million kept by the British Library. London is also home to the largest independent lending library in the world, the London Library and there are numerous collections held by a vast array of academies, institutions, societies, professional associations, city livery companies, galleries and museums such as the Bishopsgate Institution , Kew Gardens (Horticultural Library), National Art Library, National Maritime Museum (Caird Library) and Royal Society (Scientific Library), Royal Institution, Royal Academy, Royal College of Medicine, British Medical Association, Royal College of Surgeons. Kings Fund (Medicine) Inns of Court (Law), Science Museum, British Museum, Natural History Museum etc etc
http://www.london.gov.uk/priorities/...s-about-london http://www.londonhigher.ac.uk/filead...Keyfacts06.pdf http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/unc...in%20today.ppt. The Wellcome Library also on Euston Road pictured below (mainly medical and scientific) - the Wellcome Trust and Colleges of the Unversity of London are part of the partnership behind the new Francis Crick Institute (UKCMRI) being built at Brill place beside the British Library. The Wellcome Library is directly next door to the modern glass Wellcome Trust building on Euston Road, which itself is right next door to the new University College London Hospital building. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellcome_Trust http://www.hopkins.co.uk/projects/1/121/ http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/ http://www.crick.ac.uk/ The Wellcome Trust's History http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3138/...0bc803c2_o.jpg The Glorious Art Deco University of London Senate House Library next door to the British Museum and not far from the British Library. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_...ity_of_London)) http://farm1.static.flickr.com/122/2...1eaa9fbc_o.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2698/...0d5e9d4b_b.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/191/4...2c189e21_b.jpg Couple of other specialist libraries within the University of London - (The UCL Library, Institute of Education and now independent Imperial Colleges London Library, are also worth mentioning - although I don't want to post too many pics, so have chosen the specialist collections held by SOAS, LSE Lbrary and Kings Colleges Maughan Library). A lot of specialist UK collections can be found on the COPAC Bibliographic database. http://copac.ac.uk/libraries/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Libraries_UK University of London - http://www.lon.ac.uk/ The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_...frican_Studies http://www.flickr.com/photos/soasnew...n/photostream/ SOAS Newsroom - (flickr) http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1304/...ca817020_b.jpg http://finder.arcadia.edu/finder/sit...as_library.jpg Kings College London - Maughan Library (Chancery Lane, London) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maughan_Library Crowcombe Al (flickr) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/deerlea...n/photostream/ http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3022/...97b493bd_b.jpg SodiumLights (flickr) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/8321171@N04/3298022569/ http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3641/...f9d1a7d4_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3550/...349307b3_b.jpg London School of Economics and Political Science - Home to the 'British Library of Political and Economic Science' http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/home.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...onomic_Science http://www.thetravelingscholar.com/w...1-1024x768.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...elibrary_1.jpg |
This article below by Guardian Journalist Stuart Jeffries quite amusingly illustrates the problems of having to hold a copy of evertything puiblished in the nation, and the many problem in relation to storage of such a vast amount of articles, books, documents and other information.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007...4/architecture The British Library has storage facilities in Woolwich, Colindale (Newspapers) and at Boston Spa near Wetherby in West Yorkshire (which is being massively redeveloped to hold more books and newspapers) as well as it's massive site on Euston Road. The Library is also home to a book preservation, conservation and repair centre, as well as a national audio and music library. http://www.bl.uk/careers/locations.html http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/whats.../homepage.html http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/soun...ndarchive.html http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com...pload_id=10946 British Library new planned storage facilities - Boston Spa site http://static.worldarchitecturenews....ibrary1big.JPG It's also not just the British Library (14 million books and over 150 million items), the Bodleian (11 million books) has had to invest in a massive new storage facility in Swindon (as part of a massive redevelopment of the entire library) whilst the other deposit libaries - National Library of Scotland (7 million books), National Library of Wales (4 million books), Cambridge University (12 million books), Trinity College Dublin (5 million books) are also increasingly having to invest in ever larger storage facilities, and similar investments are having to be made by major libraries and archives across the globe. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/b...tle-space.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wiltshir...00/9062875.stm Bodleian Libraries New Automated Storage Facilities in Swindon (below) http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...bodleian_2.jpg The UK National Archive which is based at Kew in London (below) http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...s%2C_Kew_6.jpg The National Archive (pictured above) has even started using the space in a Cheshire salt mine to store some of it's vast array of records. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery...620904&index=0 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7911124.stm http://www.deepstore.com/ http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/...d-as-d-010.jpg http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/...d-as-d-003.jpg http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/...d-as-d-002.jpg It's also not just books the British Film Institute (BFI) had to build a vast specialist storage facility for it's highly inflammable Acetate and Nitrate Film Stores in Warwickshire http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/f...ollection.html http://beta.bfi.org.uk/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...herts-13539340 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFI_National_Archive http://cdn.archdaily.net/wp-content/...roughcells.jpg http://cdn.archdaily.net/wp-content/...mundsumner.jpg BBC Archive - which has since moved to a new building at Perivale in London http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/abouttheb...entre-at.shtml Picture below - The British Library's New Additional Storage Building (ASB) in Boston Spa (Near Wetherby, West Yorkshire in England), is seen during the installation of automated racking. The British Library is re-housing part of its collection in new facilities that will hand responsibility for the storage and retrieval of seven million items to a robotic crane rather than a librarian. Adrian Smales (Flickr) http://www.flickr.com/photos/asmales...7622974907620/ http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2530/...caea492a_o.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2579/...6eb610ec_o.jpg http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/imag...rary-books.jpg |
Some of those British/Irish libraries are better than sex.
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The London Library, founded by Thomas Carlyle in 1841, is the world's largest independent lending library, and is located in the north west corner of St James Square in buildings dating back to the 1890s. Behind its discrete, formal facade onto St James Square, the original Library was added to and extended on a number of occasions in the course of the 20th century to accommodate its ever growing collection of books.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Library http://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/index.php http://www.haworthtompkins.com/built/proj13/index.html http://www.haworthtompkins.com/built/proj02/index.html http://www.haworthtompkins.com/built.../photos/01.jpg http://www.haworthtompkins.com/built.../photos/02.jpg http://www.haworthtompkins.com/built.../photos/12.jpg http://www.haworthtompkins.com/built.../photos/11.jpg http://www.haworthtompkins.com/built.../photos/10.jpg http://www.haworthtompkins.com/built.../photos/03.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ibraryLogo.jpg |
The new Library of Birmingham (in England) typifies a move to what has been deemed the super-library, examples of such new modern libraries have been built in cities such as Norwich, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Swindon, Ilford in Essex, Worcester, Cardiff, Canada Water in London and Brighton. These new super libraries don't usually replace any beautiful historic libraries, but are questionable at a time when small local libraries are coming under increasing pressure due to spending cuts. Thankfully cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Bristol are refurbishing their old historic libraries and includng them in any refurbishment and redevlopment plans :)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010...margaret-hodge http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011...ingham-council http://www.mla.gov.uk/news_and_views...l_Central.aspx The Library of Birmingham due to open in 2013 http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...62701368_n.jpg http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6112/...175bc69a_b.jpg The Library of Birmingham - Cambridge Street by ell brown, on Flickr http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6035/...88f1fc07_b.jpg The Library of Birmingham - Cambridge Street by ell brown, on Flickr http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6037/...9b7716d4_b.jpg The Library of Birmingham - Cambridge Street by ell brown, on Flickr http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6179/...77eaa688_b.jpg The Library of Birmingham - Cambridge Street by ell brown, on Flickr :) |
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
(Austrian National Library) Located in the "Hofburg", it is one the most beautiful libraries in the world. http://img.fotocommunity.com/Archite...-a19450024.jpg http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/display/19450024 Entrance: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ien-2.1.10.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_National_Library http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...brary_pano.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_National_Library The "Prunksaal" http://www.cusoon.at/photos/11858882...bibliothek.jpg http://www.cusoon.at/prunksaal-der-o...onalbibliothek http://www.cusoon.at/photos/11858890...9ad198600a.jpg http://www.panorama-photography.com/...1_ONB_02_B.jpg http://www.panorama-photography.com/...y061124-135106 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...bibliothek.jpg New modern reading room http://www.vienna.at/2010/01/Lesesaa...ibliothek3.jpg http://www.vienna.at/nationalbibliot...00115-01525349 http://www.kto-to.de/thumbs_0/wien-0131.jpg Augustiner reading room http://www.55plus-magazin.net/upload...erlesesaal.jpg |
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National Art Library - Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), South Kensington -London
http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/n/national-art-library/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Art_Library http://www.youtube.com/user/vamuseum Unripe (flickr) http://www.flickr.com/photos/unripe/...n/photostream/ http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1015/...fa1366d5_b.jpg PimPeters (flickr) http://www.flickr.com/photos/pimpete...n/photostream/ http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5016/...b42c6b6d_b.jpg Reading Room - National Art Library - V&A London http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hpX5S9DVKC...0/IMG_6447.JPG |
The new Halifax Central Library:
http://www.archiscene.net/wp-content...tects-01th.jpg Source It's currently under construction, and slated to be completed in 2014: http://www.archiscene.net/wp-content...tects-02th.jpg Source |
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Keep 'em coming. Love this thread!
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Phoenix has a pretty strong tradition of cool, modern libraries. The City has done a very nice job on its recent branch libraries. While nothing in this post is as grand or ornate as most of this thread I hope it can be appreciated on its own merits.
Phoenix, AZ- Burton Barr Central Library http://pics.librarything.com/picsize...4b41716b42.jpg Librarything.com http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3440/...a3f664ce_z.jpg Flickr http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/4...69909d5b_z.jpg (Flickr) The north window has these sails on the outside that move to control how much light is let in on a hot day, it also provides a nice view of Midtown PHX http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/2...eriormiche.jpg Wandering Book Artists Blog http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/1536/dmabruder33.jpg http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/7...105a09294f.jpg (my photos) http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4049/...4827e71228.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3284/...8693b871_z.jpg (Flickr) These supports that hold up the roof light up like candles on the summer solstice, its very cool. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3322/...aa2fc39f_z.jpg (Flickr) "The Crystal Canyon" is the main all glass elevator section of the middle of the building. Phoenix- Desert Broom Branch Library (all photos of this library from Flickr) http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2052/...321b338a_z.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2031/...77ce20b3_z.jpg http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5194/...f09a1fd0_z.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3575/...bc97763a_z.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2142/...b8e695e5_z.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/...421afde7_z.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3375/...f3c84e29_z.jpg (the interior isn't as exciting, its just a small branch library, but I figured I should include one interior) Phoenix- Cesar Chavez Branch Library http://c0003264.cdn2.cloudfiles.rack....com/cesar.jpg LibraryJournal.com http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/wp-.../chavezcgi.jpg Metropolis Mag.com http://www.masoncontractors.org/news...21100000-8.jpg MasonContractors.com http://www.masonrysystems.org/wp-con.../inp_90_lg.jpg Masonrysystems.org http://www10.aeccafe.com/blogs/arch-...m-the-Lake.jpg AECCafe.com Scottsdale, AZ- Arabian Branch Library http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1226/...623_z.jpg?zz=1 (Flickr) http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5031/...0fe04e2a_z.jpg (Fickr) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3239/...4ce_z.jpg?zz=1 http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6064/...c8a557da_z.jpg This is the entrance! This library takes the typical library entrance; big, ornate, grand and turns it on its head. The entrance is almost hidden and you work your way through a shady man made slot canyon as you go into the library. I don't think this technique would work for a main Central Library but for this little branch library its a lot of fun. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3098/...402_z.jpg?zz=1 (Flickr) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3250/...9d583eab_z.jpg (Flickr) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3134/...66c_z.jpg?zz=1 (Flickr) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3175/...7e0_z.jpg?zz=1 (Flickr) This is the kids reading area http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3116/...8c4_z.jpg?zz=1 (Flickr) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3166/...38f30a08_z.jpg (Flickr) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3200/...2c4_z.jpg?zz=1 (Flickr) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3274/...e42_z.jpg?zz=1 (Flickr) Hope you've enjoyed this mini tour of Modern Desert Library Architecture. :) |
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Phoenix has some very innovative libraries and Stuttgart's new Library is also amazing. It's good to see such investment in libraries for future generations :)
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As this is a Skyscraper and Architecture Forum, here is the Art Deco 'Royal Institute of British Architects' (RIBA) building at Portland Place in London, home to 'The British Architectural Library' .
http://www.architecture.com/LibraryD...BALibrary.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_I...ish_Architects http://www.youtube.com/user/ribaarchitecture?ob=5 http://www.whereandnow.com/media/ima...ries/Riba2.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/...bdb9eed8_b.jpg Royal Institute of British Architects - Portland Place, London by nick.garrod on Flickr http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3115/...5cdfdea8_b.jpg Royal Institute of British Architects - Portland Place, London by nick.garrod on Flickr http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3277/...2d62b4a4_b.jpg Royal Institute of British Architects - Portland Place, London by nick.garrod on Flickr http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6196/...ac7d5b5e_b.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/timsidf... Place, London by sweetington on Flickr http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3279/...990f60e7_b.jpg Royal Institute of British Architects - Portland Place, London by James.Stringer on Flickr :) |
New University of Aberdeen Library - Scotland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Aberdeen http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5014/...54b86393_b.jpg Source http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6001/...527747ed_b.jpg Source |
New City Library - Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK - People's expectations of public libraries have grown substantially in the past decade, as can be seen from modern libraries such as this one with it's 24 hour returns, creche, electronic self service, wifi, internet access, foreign films and books, pc/video games, music and a whole host of other services.
http://community.newcastle.gov.uk/libraries/ http://www.ryderarchitecture.com/#pr...ublicbuildings Pics Source - ricaird (flickr) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3466/...8392c7d5_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2628/...78aedd83_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3515/...65fb01ae_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2427/...b66b40f1_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2545/...21ff4948_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2675/...2d5d0e35_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3486/...bdee9e36_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3440/...c3bb75fb_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2532/...217cdd91_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2428/...09336076_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3466/...352fecf5_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/...62d1a1e3_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2468/...2242b3c7_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2491/...636997b5_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3468/...c8675e51_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2607/...d0227b7a_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2574/...b95acf94_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2589/...66c0289d_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2460/...6c0bd66c_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2635/...78b927a2_b.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2665/...c7c62c0f_b.jpg |
Couple of other modern UK Public Libraries
Norfolk and Norwich Millenium Library - Norwich, England http://hopkins.m6.artlogic.net/projects/1/78/ http://www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/exp...ennium-library http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/...fd4fd908_b.jpg Source: The Forum Norwich (flickr) http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1384/1...664f56d0_b.jpg Source: .Martin. (flickr) Jubilee Library - Brighton, England http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_Library,_Brighton http://www.bennettsassociates.com/portfolio/9904/ http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4101/...da2846bd_b.jpg Source Canada Water Library - South London http://www.czwg.com/en/Work/Public%2...ater%20Library http://www.canadawater.org/library.html http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6217/6...77c8d0eb_b.jpg Source Cardiff Central Library - Wales http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7929177.stm http://www.bdp.com/Projects/By-Name/...ntral-Library/ http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/.../RIBAaward.jpg Source |
They are sure serious about books in the UK.
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In terms of the British and indeed Irish (whilst we had some fine artists and musical composers) it was really in the field of the written and spoken word that we excelled. Britain is defined by it's great writers, poets such as Rabbie Burns (Scotland), Dylan Thomas (Wales) and of course famous literary figures such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Jane Austin, the Bronte sisters, Dickens etc, whilst the Irish have had such literary greats as Keats, Yates, Shaw, Joyce, Wilde etc etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_literature More recently authors such as C.S Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien, Roald Dahl, Philip Pullman and J. K. Rowling have had their work made in to lavish big screen productions. Britain has also been home to a flourishing theatre culture, with London's West End being one of the great theatre centres of the world, along with New York's Broadway. http://www.london-theatreland.co.uk/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End_theatre There are more than 900 bookshops in London (twice as many as New York), ranging from quirky and accentric independent shops through to large chains, and from the very exclusive such as Hatchards through to the second hand book shops around Charing Cross Road,Camden and Blooomsbury through to the Southbank Centre Book Market. As a country we have a vast array of literature festivals such as Hay, Edinburgh, Oxford, Cheltenham etc as well as world famous literary awards, such as the Man Booker prize and Orange prize, the winners usually being annouced under baited breath in some lavish ceremony broadcast on BBC2 every year, and reported across the news channels. http://www.thewordtravels.com/literary-festivals.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/bestbookshops http://themanbookerprize.com/ Of all the other European Nations, the other great literary nation are the Russians, who are also defined by many of their great authors and who have always had a fascination with and appreciation of great literature. It's quite ironic I suppose that Karl Marx wrote his Communist Manifesto in the British Library, although I suppose the Americans have also been heavily influenced by the written word and indeed British writers such as Thomas Paine 'The Rights of Man' and of course the moral and social commentary of Victorian England as presented by Charles Dickens. Whilst Hollywood has long held love affair with British writers, the latest Hollywood production of a much loved British book being Michael Morputgo's 'War Horse' which is being released on to the big screen shortly, in a lavish Steven Spielberg adaptation. The again films are just a modern day extension of the theatre and of plays, and much of what is presented on the big screen starts out in the form of a book or script. http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/british...n-bestsellers/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010...s-about-russia http://www.warhorsemovie.com/ Daunt Books which specialises in travel books - Marylebone High Street, London http://www.dauntbooks.co.uk/ http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6064/6...e06fb0f8_b.jpg Source: FractalOn (flickr) http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2386/2...fdc213fc_b.jpg Source - Ewan Munro (flickr) http://farm1.staticflickr.com/173/45...80a625cf_z.jpg Source:Hannah Swithinbank (Swiv)-Flickr http://farm1.staticflickr.com/183/45...3b1_z.jpg?zz=1 Source:Hannah Swithinbank (Swiv)-Flickr http://farm1.staticflickr.com/184/45...a3759162_b.jpg Source:Hannah Swithinbank (Swiv)-Flickr http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2073/2...560b4a7c_b.jpg Source: Kake Pugh (flickr) http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1328/5...3bb7f81e_b.jpg Source: liborus (flickr) http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2200/2...f94f6999_b.jpg Source: Kake Pugh (flickr) http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2278/2...c4562dbe_b.jpg Source: Kake Pugh (flickr) http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3153/2...dc3bfb58_b.jpg Source: Kake Pugh (flickr) http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3254/2...5dddb120_b.jpg Source: Kake Pugh (flickr) http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1284/4...8a5f10a0_b.jpg Source: RachelH (flickr) http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2540/3...a1a41fa9_b.jpg Source: George Oates (flickr) http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2491/3...0c6be851_b.jpg Source: Kake Pugh (flickr) http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5066/5...16ec26bc_b.jpg Source: Kake Pugh (flickr) http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3362/4...caa112f4_b.jpg Source: Kake Pugh (flickr) http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1286/5...4ae9f9d2_b.jpg Source: curry15 having a long break (flickr) http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4118/4...d9d1409b_b.jpg Source: Yukino Miyazawa (flickr) http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3130/2...727b0c3d_b.jpg Source: Kake Pugh (flickr) http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4079/4...db3ccd22_b.jpg Source:Stephskimo (flickr) http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5056/5...7f9e5480_b.jpg Source: xpgomes5 (flickr) http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3072/3...b376c476_b.jpg Source:Tomasz Tom Kulbowski (flickr) |
^I'd love to while away a day at that bookstore.
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