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umm, looking for other photos for work-related reasons, but this reminds me of those brilliant "tilt-shift" photography photos come across recently via boingboing.com. but, this is just a real scene taken from the top level of the state library of victoria.
Manchester Central Library is the headquarters of the city's library and information service in Manchester, England. Facing St Peter's Square, it was designed by E. Vincent Harris and constructed between 1930 and 1934. At its opening, one critic wrote, "This is the sort of thing which persuades one to believe in the perennial applicability of the Classical canon". The form of the building, a columned portico attached to a rotunda domed structure, is loosely derived from the Pantheon, Rome.
The library building is grade II* listed. A four-year project to renovate and refurbish the library commenced in 2010. Central Library re-opened on 22 March 2014.
Little Free Library. There are hundreds of these little library boxes across the country and around the world. This one is in Durham, we found it while out strolling through the streets taking photos together.
Shelves of books line a corridor in Chethams Library, Manchester
Chetham's Library in Manchester is the oldest free public reference library in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1653 under the will of Humphrey Chetham and has been in continuous use since.
The library holds more than 100,000 volumes of printed books, of which 60,000 were published before 1851.
Chetham's was the meeting place of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels when Marx visited Manchester. The economics books Marx was reading at the time can be seen on a shelf in the library, as can the window seat where Marx and Engels would meet.
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The excellent central library in Portsmouth, a triumph of Brutalist Modernism, the original finishes inside were amazing
Visited by a member of the Libraries Taskforce team.
Photo credit: Julia Chandler/Libraries Taskforce
Street Art Light Projection in Adelaide next to the State Library Entrance displaying old Festival Fringe Posters.
Boxes of a street open library appeared on boulevard trees. Free of charge books offer each and every passer by a unique opportunity not only to grab a book, but to follow it;s destiny as well. Most of the books are marked as books-crossing, some lack any signs of a previous owner. Anyway this fun way to find a new reading seems to be a new joy.
First of Four Little Free Libraries that I found on this morning's drive around a few back country roads.
Monroe, Oregon
OM System OM-5
Olympus 12-50mm
Foyer of the library.
Taken for the architecture challenge at work.
Update: This photo was in the Landscapes of Vancouver show at the Yaletown Gallery. And it sold on the first night!