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Bust of Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle inside the Long Room in the Old Library, Trinity College.
The Harold Washington Library, located in Chicago, is a striking example of postmodernism. The library was completed in 1991, and the LEGO version uses 407 pieces.
Paid a return visit to the elegantly beautiful Playfair Library in the Old College during this year's Doors Open Day.
The 'colour library' (more correctly a storeroom) has thousands of sheets of smalti, indexed by production batch, sitting on shelves like books. The feeling of warmth and colour in this room is truly amazing, and any visitor to Venice should ask politely to take a look.
I brought my camera along last week when I did a book reading and craft session for kids at the new Halifax Central library. Grabbed a few shots of the awesome architecture.
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The Library of Congress is a very hard thing to photograph with my gear. But I did get this one shot that I really like.
The TV series Mission: Impossible featured the Geisel library in the last episode filmed ("The Pendulum") as the "World Resources Ltd." headquarters. (aired 2/23/73)
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The starfield library is aesthetically designed and spans from the 4th floor to the 7th floor in the middle of the recently opened shopping mall. You can read books, magazines, and use the tablets set up on the 4th floor. Books are displayed on the walls from the 4th to the 7th floor but are out of reach.
The Seattle Central Library is the flagship library of the Seattle Public Library system. The 11-story (185 feet or 56 meters high) glass and steel building in downtown Seattle, Washington was opened to the public on Sunday, May 23, 2004. Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus of OMA/REX were the principal architects. The 362,987 square foot (34,000 m²) public library can hold about 1.45 million books and other materials, features underground public parking for 143 vehicles, and includes over 400 computers open to the public. Over 2 million individuals visited the new library in its first year. It is the third Seattle Central Library building to be located on the same site at 1000 Fourth Avenue, the block bounded by Fourth and Fifth Avenues and Madison and Spring Streets.
In 2007, the building was voted #108 on the American Institute of Architects' list of Americans' 150 favorite structures in the US.
Manchester Central Library is a circular library south of the Town Hall Extension in Manchester, England. It acts as the headquarters of the Manchester Library & Information Service, which also consists of 22 other community libraries.
Designed by E. Vincent Harris, the library was constructed between 1930 and 1934, but because of its traditional neoclassical architecture it is often mistakenly thought to be much older. 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. In 2011, a three year project to renovate the library was started. Reconstruction will cost £170m and the library will be closed until 2014.
In 1968 it was recorded that the adult lending stock was 895,000, the adult reference stock 638,200, the junior stock 114,600, a total of nearly one and two thirds of a million volumes. There were about 2,000 reading places and an estimated 10,000 people visited the library each day. There were subscriptions to 3,000 periodicals.
Another try of getting a more interesting view of the walls of the library. This one worked out fairly well I think.
After converting the old library/office into a family/game room, the new library now resides at one end of the great room, with the study just around the corner.
Luckenwalde Stadt Bibliothek - Luckenwalde Town Library
Architects: FF Architekten & Martina Wronna
Built: 2009
Location: Luckenwalde, Germany.
Some things were more fun before computers. Kindergartners checking out library books was one of those things.
Charles Mergendahl - Tonight is Forever
(Original Title: Don't Wait Up for Spring)
Popular Library G424, 1960
Cover Artist: unknown
This was originally a private home designed by John Dodson and built in 1859 in the Italianate architectural style. It was later owned by William R. McKenney and donated to the city of Petersburg in 1929 to be used as the public library. This three story structure has a labyrinth of reading rooms in it (even a basement) and has always (since I have been going there) had a wonderful aroma of old books. I can't even begin to describe what an experience it is to be in this grand old dame when a thunderstorm is marching through and your down in the basement or being cozied up with a book next to one of the many ornately mantled fireplaces while it's snowing outside. I'm angry that city council decided in favor of a "new" public library. One that will be designed in a "modern ugly" style, i.e., architecturally sterile inside and out. There will be no labyrinth of book filled rooms with fireplaces, hundred plus year old Victorian oil paintings and busts of historical thinkers gazing at me, "the hungry reader", happy to be escaping the trappings of this modern world. The new building plans (which I have seen) are all about form and function but no "style". This library, the "old library" is going to be sorely missed by those that have a "passion" for reading. It's not simply about going somewhere or doing something, it's about the experiences and having our senses stimulated that brings enrichment, fulfillment and joy to our lives. That is what this place had to offer.