UK - Oxford - Sackler Library 02
From Wikipedia : "The Sackler Library holds a large portion of the classical, art historical, and archaeological works belonging to the University of Oxford, England.
The Library was completed in 2001 and opened on September 24 of that year, replacing the former library of the Ashmolean Museum. The library is located at 1 St John Street, to the rear of the Ashmolean. It was founded with a generous donation by the multi-millionaire Dr Mortimer Sackler.
Designed by architects Robert Adam and Paul Hanvey, it is a distinctive building, as the central block is circular. It is appropriate to its Classical purpose, as one of the outer walls is decorated by a mock-Classical frieze; also, its creators say that the entrance is based upon the Doric Temple of Apollo at Bassae, first excavated by Charles Robert Cockerell, the man who designed the Ashmolean Museum."
UK - Oxford - Sackler Library 02
From Wikipedia : "The Sackler Library holds a large portion of the classical, art historical, and archaeological works belonging to the University of Oxford, England.
The Library was completed in 2001 and opened on September 24 of that year, replacing the former library of the Ashmolean Museum. The library is located at 1 St John Street, to the rear of the Ashmolean. It was founded with a generous donation by the multi-millionaire Dr Mortimer Sackler.
Designed by architects Robert Adam and Paul Hanvey, it is a distinctive building, as the central block is circular. It is appropriate to its Classical purpose, as one of the outer walls is decorated by a mock-Classical frieze; also, its creators say that the entrance is based upon the Doric Temple of Apollo at Bassae, first excavated by Charles Robert Cockerell, the man who designed the Ashmolean Museum."