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Reputedly one of the largest libraries in Europe the new Library of Birmingham appears to have been positively received both critically and by the public. A year on from it's opening in 2013 its popularity has not waned and its form and detail is impressive to behold.
The exterior is almost entirely clad in a striking filigree of metalwork, a nod to the city's industrial heritage, whilst within are several layers of open spaces and reading rooms, along with roof terraces giving a fine view over the city.
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Consolidating Vancouver Public Library's Central Branch, Federal Office Tower, and retail and service facilities, the Library Square occupies a city block in Downtown Vancouver. Centred on the block, the library is a nine-story rectangular box containing book stacks and services, surrounded by a free-standing, elliptical, colonnaded wall featuring reading and study areas that are accessed by bridges spanning skylit light wells. The library's internal glass facade overlooks an enclosed concourse formed by a second elliptical wall that defines the east side of the site. This glass-roofed concourse serves as an entry foyer to the library and the more lively pedestrian activities at ground level. Public spaces surrounding the library form a continuous piazza with parking located below grade. The building's exterior resembles the Flavian Amphitheater in Rome (better known by its later name of the Colosseum) although in fact the resemblance is to the present rather than original state of the building.
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New York City book campaign / Abel & Company, Inc., commercial photographers, 903 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
1919.
1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 21 x 16 cm.
Summary:
Photograph shows a woman standing on a pile of books speaking into a megaphone for an American Library Association War Service promotion to collect books for soldiers fighting in Europe.
Notes:
• Title from item.
• Stamped on verso: Please credit American Library Association.
• Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Military section.
Subjects:
• American Library Association.--War Service.
• World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York.
• Book drives--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920.
• Women--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920.
• Books--1910-1920.
Format:
Photographic prints--1910-1920.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.40926
Call Number: LOT 13440-2, no. 21
The 135 AD Library of Celsus left and the 40 AD Gate of Mazeus and Mithridates right stand at the focal point of the ancient city of Ephesus, Turkey.
The Cumberland Library, in Rhode Island, was a Trappist monastery before it was a library. Originally called Monastery of Our Lady of the Valley, this Gothic structure housed 140 monks until being ravished by a fire in the 1950s.
Afterward, the monks relocated to a new monastery and the remaining buildings were repurposed into the Cumberland Public Library.
Since then, rumors of hauntings in the older parts of the building began to spread. Sightings of ghostly monks, unexplained sounds and the like have been reported by employees and patrons.
A short walk through the forest surrounding the monastery turned library will lead you to Nine Men's Misery--a haunted mass grave of nine colonial soldiers that were tortured to death three hundred years ago.
Active Assignment Weekly Sept. 19 - 26: Hugging the Curves
WIT: These are the steps of the library. Took the shot, cropped to square, and desaturated a little in photoshop.
The Biblioteca Palatina or Palatina Library was established in 1761 in the city of Parma by Philip Bourbon, Duke of Parma.
It is one of the cultural institutions located in the Palazzo della Pilotta complex in the center of Parma
I have lived in Washington DC almost twenty years and have visited most of the museums, buildings and attractions at one time or another. To me, the most impressive is the Thomas Jefferson Building, the oldest and most recognizable Library of Congress building.
I have visited the LOC a few times but never attempted to get photos until my last visit. The scale is simply overwhelming. My lack of experience for indoor, architectural photography did not do justice to the grandeur of the place, but hopefully this short series will be of some interest. To me it's a must-see for any visit to DC.
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Powell Library is the main college undergraduate library on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It was constructed from 1926 to 1929 and was one of the original four buildings that comprised the UCLA campus in the early period of the university's life. Its Romanesque Revival architecture design, its historic value and its popularity with students make it one of the defining images of UCLA. Like the building facing it across the quad, Royce Hall, the building's exterior is modeled after Milan's Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio.
Borrego Springs Library. Project Architect/Designer: RNT Architects (Ralph Roesling, Partner in Charge; Raúl Díaz, Project Architect; Brandon Martella, Architect; Summer Spencer, Designer). Completed in 2019 for the County of San Diego.
west-facing detail view of the Los Angeles Central Library. Inscriptions & sculpture in limestone designed by Hartley Burr Alexander.
Los Angeles, California
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I found sunlight's Innovative creative beauty in public library children's section. This indoor rainbow is from cheap crepe paper blocking out harsh south sunlight as high temperatures average 95-100+ on most summer afternoons in deep South Texas U.S.A. .
While showing off this foto, my visitor # 25,000 arrived on Dec. 9, 2007. Thanks to each of you for continuing to share joy, beauty, creativity, and art with this newbie to FLICKR..
EXPLORE # 100 on Monday, December 10, 2007, for 12-09.
Different from my other work, I still can't help but like this shot. It's from the interior of the Seattle Public Library. Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus of OMA/LMN were the principal architects.