View allAll Photos Tagged Library
Seattle Public Library
Architect: Rem Koolhaas
Now I'm really starting to mix things up--first pacific coast and redwoods, then modern metal-boxes, then snow-covered mountains and now we return to steel-grids. So be it. Still, I am at 199, so it looks like I might make it to professional photographer after all--at least flickerite.
Zipped into downtown Seattle on my 5-h. layover to see some old college-friend--who, might I add--doesn't look (or probably act) much older than they did 19 years ago. At any rate it was refreshing to tour a city with someone who has a real enthusiasm for architecture and nice detailing and isn't shy to point out things that he appreciates.
Parked right in front of the entrance so that I didn't even get much of a view of the exterior in it's context, but I was a little nervous about missing my next flight, so we went right in. It is very typical Koolhaas with its industrial look and feel, material-mix and color-scheme. Some very nice spaces and interior perspectives--as well as views out.
The new Birmingham library.
45 seconds at f16, ISO 100 with the Fuji X100 and a B+W 10 Stop ND filter.
I'm loving this little camera. It fit nicely into one jacket pocket, the ND filter and shutter release cable went into the other pocket and my hands were free to lug around the tripod (I might have to look at getting a lighterweight version).
I did get a few odd looks from passersby, security guard and a large number of police when setting up for this shot due to them putting up the barricades and security measure for the Conservative Party Conference at the NIA building next door.
The library hosted a swim party for all kids 6-18 who had read over 30 books in the Texas Reading Club. There was fun in the Friendswood pool, plus grilled hot dogs by the Boy Scouts and popsicles for everyone!
The public library building in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Shot made just before dawn, using a Canon Powershot S90 camera.
I may have a problem. These were just the ones sitting right there. There are at least four others I can think of including my current favorite- Tartine Book No. 3. That one is by my bed. ;-)
And if you are a bread nerd, you might want to watch this video. The way the bread undulates as it's sliced toward the end? SWOON.
Reference: Photo 24/(117)
From the Girdwood Collection held by the British Library.
This image is part of the Europeana Collections 1914-1918
Date: 25 Jul 1915
See also:
- View this at the British Library's site
William Byron Mowery - The Phantom Canoe
Popular Library 103, 1946
Cover Artist: IM-HO
(IM-HO being the 'signature' for Immerman and Hoffman or Immerman and Holley)
A novel of the Canadian Northwest
The Macquarie University Library is the largest academic library in Northern Sydney. The library holds over 1.8 million print and electronic items, including books, journals, newspapers, reports, conference proceedings, working papers, maps, Macquarie postgraduate theses, computer software, multimedia, microfilm, microfiche and additional non-print resources. New items are regularly added to ensure high quality resources are available for learning, teaching and research.
The library provides access to over 600 databases; 500,000 e-books; more than 69,000 electronic journals; books, printed resources and multimedia via MultiSearch.
A gorgeous Neo-Classical Building on Orange Avenue. I had assumed that it was a Carnegie-funded library, but the benefactor in this case was John D. Spreckels, the owner of the Hotel del Coronado. The Library opened in 1909.
Library of Celsus, Ephesus. Notice the hybrid Roman capital on an unfluted column, combining the Greek Ionian and Corinthian styles: Rome proclaims itself a new world order that surpasses all that was ancient Greece.
National Public Library - It is located by Mother Teresa Street adjacent to the university. This building has unique characteristics for it's architecture and design surrounded with metal.
It is described as simultaneously gorgeous and absurd. A description that in my opinion fits.
The outside of the mammoth 16,500 square metre space-age building features a total of 99 white glass cupolas of different sizes and is entirely covered in a metal fishing net.
Prishtina Kosova May 2010
We R ur community beggin fer access
These pets spent most all of one day this week attempting and achieving entrance to the library. Seems their owner was busy inside but returning periodically to give them water in little cups.
Some customers paused outside and waited to enter. Some children inside hurried to open the doors to let the dogs come right on inside.
They could be heard barking from the second floor on occasion and were retrieved promptly when they scurried into the library's Local and Family History room.
Pages 22 and 23 of the 1896 catalogue of books in Deseronto Public Library, Deseronto, Ontario, continuing Class H (history) and with an advertisement for the "Independent Order Foresters, Court Deseronto, No. 93. Meets every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the I.O.F. Hall, Colp Block, corner of Edmund [Edmon] and St. George Streets. All Members of the Order invited."
The Library of Parliament is the main information repository and research resource for the Parliament of Canada. The main branch of the library, which is the focus of this article, sits at the rear of the Centre Block, on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Ontario, and is the last untouched part of that larger building's original incarnation, after it burned down in 1916. The library has been augmented and renovated a number of times since its construction in 1876, the last between 2002 and 2006, though the form and decor remain essentially authentic. The building today serves as a Canadian icon.
In the foreground you can see the original Victoria Tower Bell. It's the only relic remaining from the Victoria Tower. It was cast in 1875 and installed in the tower in 1877. The bell fell from the tower during the Centre Block fire of 1916. The bell's inclined position recalls the angle at which it came to rest after falling during the fire of 1916.
This HDR-picture is a combination of 3 pictures, processed and fused with Photomatix.