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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.
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.
Made around 2000, from 3 or 4 rounds of swaps online at QuiltersBee with quilters all around the world, from 15 miles away to New Zealand and Australia. On the wall it really looks like a bookcase there with 3 dimensional parts and signatures from my fellow swappers
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.
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.
Dublin City Libraries were delighted to be back at the Rose Festival this year. There was plenty of activity around the Library in the Community van and the Lord Mayor of Dublin even popped by to say hello. Our library tent played host to some great family events including he Gruffalo puppet show and photogram workshop.
Nieves Library
at White Heat, hosted by
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Window Display
June 26th – July 16th
In the ancient library of Alexandria, the thousands of scrolls (not books) were stored in compartments in the walls. These rectangular holes are empty, but they remind us of the ancient scrolls (and they serve for soundproofing).
This was the library of my childhood. In 2000, a new public library was built nearby, and it was converted to condominiums.
Square modern block, quite different from the ornate buildings that surround it. Very busy inside though - I had to frame these photos carefully!
Kinson is one of the old settlements that existed in and around the Stour Valley long before Bournemouth was officially founded in 1810.
This stretch of Wimborne Rd lies at what would have been the heart of Kinson but most of the 'old Kinson' has long since disappeared although some older properties still stand including St Andrews Church, Pelhams and Gullivers Tavern, plus the odd old gate post or two, in the centre of Kinson.
Others such as the Dower House and the former St Andrews Vicarage, now the Toby Carvery, in what was the neighbouring village of Ensbury, which is now known as Northbourne, and thatched cottages in East Howe Lane, including the former Thatched House pub plus a few other bits and bobs also still survive in the vicinity.
Years ago Kinson used to cover a wider area than we may think of as Kinson today and covered land that is part of neighbouring Poole which is why the Kinson Pottery Industrial Estate out on Ringwood Rd in Poole is so named because the large Kinson Pottery works stood here into the 1960s
Kinson as we know it became part of Bournemouth in 1931, including East Howe, West Howe and on up to what is now the town boundary at Wallisdown Rd. Even at this time there was still a fairly rural aspect to the area as it would have been before the construction of large areas of council properties and other residential homes in the 50s and 60s.
The site of The Hub, which is the subject of this small series of images has most notably been occupied by a Victorian school until the 1950s, then a prefab library in the 1960s, and finally a more permanent library building from 1970 until 2008, when work to construct The Hub began.
The Hub incorporates a library and various other community outreach services and was officially opened by the television wildlife personality Chris Packham in 2010.
www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8337021.Bournemouth_counci...
Further reading.
Old Kinson by SJ Lands - a Bournemouth Local Studies Publication. 1980 ISBN 0 906406 08 0
The Museum is a member of both the Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS) and the Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC). The Museum’s Library holdings can be accessed through the RAILS’ Resource Sharing Alliance (RSA) catalog, as well as OCLC’s OCLC Online Union Catalog known as WorldCat, which includes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories.
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.
I started making read posters for the library last year as part of a marketing campaign. The project began with posters of faculty and staff posing with works they have published. We've been entertaining the idea of doing student versions for a while now. I finally got off my ass and finished up the first in the series. This is Mike, our ex student worker, member of Dormlife, and patient muse. Check out his band's site on myspace: www.myspace.com/dormlife.
Located in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. This library was built in 1896. It still serves as a library today.
Gdansk Library, Biblioteka Gdańska Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Established in 1596 as "Library of the City Council" Gdansk, The present library (1905) was built to a design by Karl Kleefeld in neo-Gothic style, reminiscent of the same to the gothic nature of the previous headquarters in Gdansk It houses 800,000 volumes as of 2005. We were intrigued with their collection of medieval manuscripts, dating back to 1423. There are original manuscripts of Martin Luther King and other activists of the Reformation. There are also parts of Biblical text from the 10-12th century including the writings of St. Augustine (bgpan.gda.pl/)