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Library in a builder's 9,000 sf home. Canon 7D. 5 exposures bracketed and enfused in Photomatix Pro.
By contrast with yesterday's post, here's the library at Alexandria - an amazing place.
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Section from the Berlin Wall, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Simi Valley, California.
Since it opened in 1932, the University Park campus’s historic Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library has served as an intellectual center and cultural treasure for generations of students, faculty and staff. Created as a memorial to Edward L. Doheny Jr., a USC trustee and alumnus, this landmark building was USC’s first freestanding library. (photo by Philip Channing)
Library Room, KC Irving Centre, Acadia University.
iPhone 5 HDR processed with VSCOcam with lv03 preset.
In my coach driving days I regularly came upon former London Transport Leyland National LS6 (TGY 106M) parked in Blarney whilst perfoming library services for Cork County Council. This photo was taken in October, 1995.
Captured at the Public Library in Amsterdam during a shoot with Leuntje.
The harsh bokeh of the 50/1,8 worked nicely in this graphic setting.
Best viewed Large with a black background
Free library for anyone who wants to leave a book or take one. Here for the winter, and some year round, community of travelers and wandering souls.
This is the cart that I decorated after I did my stint at the UCLA Young Research Library as a student supervisor.
Library of the Scottish Rite Temple at 332 East First in Wichita Kansas. It was built in 1887-1888 for the YMCA by Proudfoot and Bird. The YMCA sold the building in 1898 to the Scottish Rite Masons. In 1907 an addition was added to the north side. It is one of Wichita's landmark buildings.
This was originally was used as a billiard room and smoking lounge. It was transformed to its current use in 1965.
National Register #72000527. Added in 1972.
The John P. Robarts Research Library, commonly referred to as Robarts Library, is the main humanities and social sciences library of the University of Toronto Libraries and the largest individual library in the university. Opened in 1973 and named for John Robarts, the 17th Premier of Ontario, the library contains more than 4.5 million bookform items, 4.1 million microform items and 740,000 other items.
The library building is one of the most significant examples of brutalist architecture in North America. Its towering main structure rests on an equilateral triangular footprint and features extensive use of triangular geometric patterns throughout. It forms the main component of a three-tower complex that also includes the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and the Claude Bissel Building, which houses the Faculty of Information. The library's imposing appearance has earned it the nickname of Fort Book.
The design of the Robarts Library complex was headed by Mathers & Haldenby Architects with consultation from Warner, Burns, Toan & Lunde, the New York architectural firm whose earlier works included the libraries at Cornell and Brown universities and was specialized in precast concrete buildings. Coinciding with the Canadian Centennial celebrations, the initial plan was expanded to add three more storeys to the original design. Construction of the library began in 1968 and completed in 1973, at a cost of over $40 million.
Robarts Library occupies a 3-acre (12,000 m2) site on a field of open space and mature tree cover. The building rests on an equilateral triangle footprint with each side measuring 330 feet (100 m), the same length as a Canadian football field from goal post to goal post. The building is oriented such that one side of the equilateral triangle faces west while the other two sides face northeast and southeast.
The elevation is mostly concrete, albeit differing in textures and directionality: smooth concrete lines the façade in a horizontal manner, the rough concrete lining vertically. The steel-framed windows are situated onto the bays protruding from the façade, and are reminiscent of overhanging towers in medieval castle architecture. Ironically, the bay windows seem to elevate upwards, opening up the two lowermost levels into voids enclosed with steel-framed glazing, making these elements seem lighter than they really are. To stretch further one’s imagination, it is as if these elements are elevators that transport the "scholar[s] anxious to escape the noise and turmoil of the vulgar press [into]… a dream palace enshrining in its holy mysteries the power of the word."
Comprising fourteen storeys, plus two underground floors, the brutalist and futurist structure features raised podia and a suspended fourth floor. A mezzanine level physically connects Robarts Library to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library building at its southeastern side, and to the Claude Bissel Building, housing the Faculty of Information, at its northeastern side. The concrete waffle slab floor plates are adorned with triangular-patterned tessellation. A hexagonal central circulation atrium is enclosed at the core of the building and through the middle of the mezzanine level. The gross area of the building is over 1,036,000 square feet (96,200 m2).
In 2008, the university announced that Robarts Library would be receiving a significant upgrade, the first phase of which was completed in the spring of 2011. During these years a major transformation gradually took place at Robarts, beginning with the renovation of the apexes on each stack floor in 2008 (finished in 2010), the Map & Data Library on the 5th floor in 2009, the Media Commons on the 3rd floor in 2010, and the second floor porticos in 2011. The renovations were intended to create a welcoming environment that would both provide informal study space and function to let people know about the services and resources available throughout the building. Signage throughout the building was redesigned and refreshed to improve navigation and usability of the library and its resources, and new touch screens are already improving communication with students, providing information such as the number of available workstations on each floor at any given time.
The next phase of the renewal will be the addition of a five-storey pavilion which will become a new face of Robarts, opening up the west side of the building to the street, bringing a flood of natural light to the lower floors and making the overall environment more inviting, accessible and productive for students. The new Pavilion is anticipated to add 1,200 new work and study spaces to Robarts, bringing the library’s total number of study spaces to over 6,000. The renovations were designed by Diamond and Schmitt Architects Incorporated.
Source: Wikipedia
This High Dynamic Range image was tone-mapped from three hand-held bracketed photographs with Photomatix, processed with Color Efex, then touched up in Aperture.
Gibraltar's Garrison Library.
The clouds just climbed over the rock, and thus have this creepy appearance.
HDR made from 6 exposures.
hespeler library / kongats architects / cambridge, canada
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The Madison Public Library reflects in the rain covered street. The building is the work of Jeff Scherer, et.al.
Photographed using a Sony NEX 5N with a Nikor 24mm f/2 lens. I used a didymium filter on account of sodium vapour lighting and the overcast sky.
Masood Jhandir Library is situated in Sardar Pur Jhandeer, a small town 12km from Mailsi in Punjab, Pakistan. It is claimed to be biggest Private Library in Pakistan. It is estimated that it has more than 2,00,000 books and Journals. It was established in 1889 by Malik Ghulam Mohammad Choghatta (1865-1936). Now it is runned by Mian Masood Jhandeer.It is totally supported by private funds.
Books -1,10,000. Journals and periodicals 82000 and about 3000 hand written books.
Languages Urdu 50,000, English 21000, Persian 165000, Arabic 13500, saraiki/Punjabi 6000, Sidhi, Pushto, Balouchi and other 1000, spranto 5000 ( Numbers as in 2003)
Holy Quran Libray has Holy Quran in 30 languages of world. Many handwritten and different unique types.
Topics. Reference 7000, Philosophy and other 6500, Religion 38500, Social sciences 5000, Linguist 4000, Science and technology 1500, Art 2500, Agriculture 3000, Urdu and English Literature 23000, Autobiography 8000, History 12000, journals 82000, and mixed 3200 (As in2003)
Many well known writers and poets and other philanthropists have donated books to library. It does not accept Govt. donations.
It is reference library and does not issue books. However they provide residence to out station scholars and researchers. It has recently shifted to new building which comprises 25 rooms. And Librarian appointed
It is open to Public in morning hours (except Govt. holidays)
Tel: 0092-67-3430786, 0092-67-3430430
Fax.: 0092-67-3430789
E-mail: jhnadir_library@hotmail.com
Jhandir_library@yahoo.com
(Information from brochure provided by Library)
It has first edition of “Readers Digest” Published in 1921 and Britannica encyclopedia and book of year and antique English Literature books and many other rare books.
ONE MUST SEE IT.