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I spent hours in the library browsing through hundreds of photography books, then realised, my student card will soon be expired.
It is so strange, that I have spent 7 years in this library, and I had never been here reading those books, even though the photography book section is located on the same floor as architectural books, now that I am about to graduate, I started exploring this library more than ever.
Too late though.
Designed by T Russell Cooper of London, opened in 1912, the gift of Andrew Carnegie.
"MIDDLESBROUGH VICTORIA SQUARE, NZ 4920 SE east side. 9/91 Central Public Library. 18.3.74 - II Public library, 1909/12 by S.B. Russell and T.E. Cooper (London), under part patronage of Andrew Carnegie. Rear extension 1977. Red brick with sandstone ashlar plinth, parapet, towers and dressings. Renewed slate roof. Baroque style. One storey, with 2-storey end bays, and attic storey. Eleven bays, with wider and slightly-projecting 2nd and 10th bays, the latter with wrought iron 2-leaf gates enriched with wreaths and medallions, under overlight with lozenge-pattern glazing bars, in architrave. Entablature with applied metal lettering: "PUBLIC LIBRARY" in frieze, under 24-pane casement window in enriched architrave. Similar windows in 2nd bay. Paired giant Roman Ionic pilasters, rising from deep continuous plinth, flank doorway and windows and support continuous entablature. Short towers over 2nd and 10th bays each has window, with patterned glazing bars in broken-pedimented architrave, with urn and swag in tympanum. Middle bays have 24-pane hopper-light windows, in architraves under entablatures, set behind similar colonnade-in-antis. Balustraded parapet; straight parapets on towers. Right end bay has similar window. Narrow left end bay has round-headed doorway with similar gate. Both end bays have oculi in architraves on first floor. Mansard roof with flat-roofed dormers over middle and right end bays. 6-bay right returns. 2-storey rear extension in keeping. INTERIOR: entrance hall has marble wall cladding. Panelled double doors with glazed round top panels, under fanlights, in architraves with enriched escutcheons and flanked by pilasters. Continuous impost entablature with triglyphs and guttae. Ceiling has roundel with raised border of fruit and flowers. Marble imperial staircase has iron post-and-rail balustrade with medallions, moulded wood handrail and marble pedestal newels. Plaster panelled walls to staircase and landings. Similar doors, on first floor, in panelled surrounds, under broken pediments on fluted consoles, with enriched escutcheons in tympana. Bronze commemorative tablets on staircase landing. First-floor reference library has segmental-arched ceiling with square-panelled ribs between dormers. Heavily-moulded top entablature with pulvinated frieze. Oak panelled walls. Gallery on 4 sides, projects at angles and sides to form 5 bays; supported on Roman Doric columns with continuous entablature. Iron post-and-rail fronts. Similar galleried reading room adjoining. Listing NGR: NZ4963720166" Historic England
I think the differences in the light are because the light came from two sources. The area in the foreground was natural light while the area in the background was artificial light.
New Central Library construction. 5 January 2017.
File reference: New-Central-2016-IMG_7993
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
The Ikenberry Commons Library, with student artwork displayed.
Photo taken on 18 Dec, 2013 by C.E. Crane.
County Library, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
Architect not found, but plainly the work of the Johns, Slater Haward partnership; or, if not, a remarkably well-observed copy of their house style of the late 1950s. It bears a strong resemblance to their Sprites Schools, Ipswich, completed in 1960. Outside, triangular groups of wooden and metal rectangular frames fill to lift the geometric roofs. Internally, a typical JSH motif, the jolly wooden framing in the shape of a ship's hull. The pendulous lights may well be original.
All that is missing are the cheerful Bernard Reynolds sculptures that were often integrated into the structure of their buildings at this time. However, the concrete trellis forming the porch adds the required jaunty touch.
The Columbus Public Library is a nice Carnegie Library completed in 1912 and designed in the arts and crafts/prairie school tradition by Madison architects Claude & Starck.
The British Library, designed by architect Colin St. John Wilson was the largest public building constructed in the United Kingdom in the 20th century. It houses over 150 million items from every country in the world in various formats.
From a special Sesame Street exhibit at the Brooklyn Library. Picture sent by listener Mark Wiedenheft.
The recently completed Sahuarita Library of the Pima County Library system, located at 670 W. Sahuarita Rd. in Sahuarita, AZ opened its doors on September 7, 2021.
News release: www.library.pima.gov/news/the-new-sahuarita-library-to-op...
Photos taken August 11, 2021
Please credit Pima County Communications
Carrollton Public Library
Carrollton, TX
Minolta X-700
Rokkor MD 35-105mm f3.5-4.5
Kodak Color Plus 200
Developed & Scanned by The Darkroom
Edited in Photoshop CC
The "corridors" in the library made by the shelves are really narrow. Not to mention frightening. There seems to be light at the end of this tunnel though.
The library of Celsus is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, Anatolia, now part of Selçuk, Turkey. It was built in honor of the Roman Senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus (completed in 135 AD) by Celsus' son, Gaius Julius Aquila (consul, 110 AD). Celsus had been consul in 92 AD, governor of Asia in 115 AD, and a wealthy and popular local citizen. He was a native of nearby Sardis and amongst the earliest men of purely Greek origin to become a consul in the Roman Empire and is honored both as a Greek and a Roman on the library itself. Celsus paid for the construction of the library with his own personal wealth.
The library was built to store 12,000 scrolls and to serve as a monumental tomb for Celsus. Celsus is buried in a sarcophagus beneath the library, in the main entrance which is both a crypt containing his sarcophagus and a sepulchral monument to him. It was unusual to be buried within a library or even within city limits, so this was a special honor for Celsus.
Grainger Engineering Library at the University of illinlois. Designed by Woollen Molzan and Partners.
Photographed with a Nikon F5 using a Nikkor 28-85mm lens on Kodak Ektar 100 film
Every child who has come into the library over the last month has put a seed on our sunflower with their name on or the name of someone they care about. It looks incredible. One of our young volunteers drew it so that it is in a Fibonacci spiral. One small boy did a seed for his friend "because he is on crutches and I think the seed will help" - almost like lighting a candle for someone.
November 4, 2019 - Avalon Library Grand Re-Opening with County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisor Janice Hahn, 4th District. Avalon Library, part of LA County Library, is located on the island of Catalina. Photograph by Monica Almeida.
Christmas decorations at the Västerhaninge public library. You really don't need to do more than this me thinks.
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Fernando Periquet
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
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
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.20643
Call Number: LC-B2- 3703-7
Title/View: Warsaw University Library: general view of garden
Title: Warsaw University Library
Other title: Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie; BUW
Creator: Budzynski, Marek; Badowski, Zbigniew
Creator role: Architect
Creator 2: Bajerska, Irena
Creator 2 role: Landscape architect
Date: 1994-2002
Current location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Description of work: Located between the Vistula River and the Warsaw Escarpment on a culturally and ecologically significant site, the library's design is based on a "city in the woods" concept and was the winning entry of the 1993 design competition for the building. The library is built within the existing topography of the landscape (two levels below grade and two levels above grade) and is constructed of reinforced concrete, steel, glass, and pre-patinated copper. The building's 5,000 square meter green roof is watered by a stormwater irrigation system and contains four thematic gardens, each of which is surrounded by massive skylights and connected by steel bridges. The roof gardens provide expansive views of the city and are integrated into the adjacent University Public Garden by grand staircases and linear water channels. "The library's interior is divided both functionally and physically by a glass enclosed street arcade, which serves to separate and connect the library stacks andleased commercial space.The copper facade along Dobra Street displays eight [4x7 meter] copper tablets containing six different alphabets, mathematical and chemical equations and musical and literary concepts." (Sources: Linke, Lybra, "University Gardens, Warsaw" Topos. Jan. 2005, vol. 51, pp 98-102; Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie. www.buw.uw.edu.pl/en/index.php?option=com_content&tas... Accessed 6/1/16.
Description of view: People enjoying the park-like garden on the northwest side of the library. From this vantage point, the library building is almost hidden through the trees.
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Style of work: Contemporary: Postmodern
Culture: Polish
Materials/Techniques: Plants
Source: Pisciotta, Henry (copyright Henry Pisciotta)
Date photographed: May 2011
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG
Image size: 2736H X 3648W pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted.
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2014-0310 Library.jpg
Record ID: WB2014-0310
Sub collection: libraries
campuses
Copyright holder: Copyright Henry Pisciotta