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Why do bookends appeal? Is it their decorativeness? Is it the fantasy they portray? Is it that they visualize the romance, adventure, history and knowledge found in books? Are they used to reflect our sense of style? Is it that they are in pairs? Perhaps it is all these reasons.
Bookends: another chapter is an exhibition at Mosman Library that showcases treasured bookends held in private collections. The exhibition, on display from Tuesday 12 April to Sunday 15 May 2011, is an opportunity to view some fantastic pieces dating from the 1920s to the 1980s.
LocHal Public Library
Tilburg, Netherlands
Discipline
Interior
Typology
Library, Adaptive/Reuse, Office/Research, Government/Civic
Size: 7,000 m2
Status: Completed
Project Design: 2016 - 2018
Project Realisation: 2018
Address: Burgemeester Brokxlaan 66 5041 RP Tilburg
Client: Midden-Brabant Library and Kunstloc Brabant
Design Team: CIVIC Architects, architectural design; Braaksma & Roos Architectenbureau, restoration; Inside Outside in collaboration with the TextielMuseum, interior concept and textiles; Mecanoo, interior design library, labs and offices.
Programme: Mecanoo was responsible for the interior design of the Bibliotheek Midden-Brabant (including the various ‘laboratories’), Kunstloc Brabant and Brabant C in a former locomotive hall of the Dutch National Railways. The interior design comprises 7,000 m2 including 1,300 m2 of offices.
Awards: THE PLAN Award, Interior category, 2019; BNA Building of the Year’19, Liveability & Social Cohesion and the Public Vote Award, 2019; Dutch Design Awards, Habitat category, 2019; NRP Gulden Feniks Award, Category S, 2019; AZ Awards, Adaptive Re-Use, Award of Merit, 2019; Dezeen Awards, Rebirth project of the year, 2019; World Interiors News Awards (WIN Awards), Gold Winner, Learning category, 2019; INSIDE - World Festival of Interiors Award, Creative Re-use category, 2019; Beste Bibliotheek van Nederland 2020 Award; Herengracht Industrie Prijs 2021; shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2022.
Photography: Ossip Architectuurfotografie.
The LocHal is a new, world-class urban living room for Tilburg in an iconic former locomotive shed of the Dutch National Railways. It is located next to the station, in the heart of Tilburg’s new City Campus, and houses the Midden-Brabant Library, the cultural institutions Kunstloc and Brabant C and the co-working spaces of Seats2meet. The LocHal is a space for both young and old to read, learn, study, meet and gather. It is a place for testing, creating, exhibiting and presenting the latest innovations.
Mecanoo’s playful and innovative interior design forms striking contrasts by combining characteristic historical elements with new oak and steel additions. A colour palette of reds and oranges contributes to a warm atmosphere. There is a diversity of settings for meeting, collaboration, and concentrated work.
The eye-catcher is the city café featuring a bar with red, brown and gold ceramic tiles, crowned with a neon LocHal logo. Old tracks remain visible in the concrete floor, and are used to move three large wheeled “train” tables. A single table can become the extension of the bar or, when combined with another table, forms a stage with the stairs as a tribune. They can also be moved outside to form a stage for outdoor events. Full-height textile walls, designed by Inside Outside and the Textile Museum, soften the industrial hall. They conveniently divide the space into larger or smaller activity areas.Crossing the building is an interior street lined with historic industrial columns on which the old layers of paint are still visible. By fitting the columns with wooden tables and lighting, they are given a new lease of life as places for reading and studying. The street is flanked by bookcases and more inviting bookshop-style display units.
The nearby fairytale theme park Efteling is the source of inspiration for the children's library. Bookcases take on the form of coloured pencils or rulers. Children can walk through giant fairytale books, read at tables shaped like mobile phones or listen to storytelling sessions while lying on an open book. Even the sitting poufs have playful letters in the form of fairytale animals.
Braaksma & Roos and CIVIC architects carried out the architectural design and renovation. The stair landscape that Civic designed for the monumental LocHal takes you to the upper floors. With the flexible oak seating elements, everyone can ‘build’ their own meeting place or quiet working niche. The LocHal is not only a library but also a laboratory where visitors are challenged, gain new knowledge and learn about new innovations. Specially designed labs can be found throughout the building: the Digilab, GameLab, FutureLab, FoodLab, KennisMakerij (LearningLab), TijdLab (TimeLab), Stemmingmakerij (DialogueLab), WoordLab (WordLab) and workshop rooms.
This tiny library has served our small town well for over 130 years and is still used frequently for books, videos, and other media.
A brief history of the building is available on the town website.
As a reward for reading during the Summer, the library has a special event for the kids at the city pool with swimming and hot dogs!
Anythink Brighton (Rangeview Library District) is an award winning and progressive library district in Colorado.
Group3 Planners created the layout of the library and selected the furniture. Other project team members are Humphries Poli Architects and Wember, Inc.
Group3 Planners plans and designs libraries. Learn more about Group3 Planners and our other projects at www.group3planners.com
Photos by Group3 Planners
A man reads a questionnaire at the Gloucestershire County Library Roadshow, part of a consultation process before revised cuts to the county's libraries. It is a dreadful questionnaire of huge complexity, filled with loaded questions. Yet the man appears to be enjoying it.
ITV news coverage - www.itv.com/westcountry-east/library-consultation51821/
Make sure your views are heard - foclibrary.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/make-sure-your-views-...
Trying to find the ordered books in the library.
Captured with my X100's and processed in Aperture with VSCO films.
Wright Library
Dayton, Ohio
Listed 12/24/2013
Reference Number: 13000981
Wright Memorial Public Library is being nominated under Criterion C for its architectural distinction as an excellent example of a Tudor or Jacobethan Revival style library designed by the local Dayton, Ohio, architecture firm of Schenck and Williams. Schenck and Williams were responsible for the designs of much of the civic architecture in Oakwood, which, in addition to the library, includes three public schools, the city administration building, and a large-scale apartment building, all in the Tudor or Jacobethan Revival style. They also designed a number of private houses in Oakwood, also in the Tudor style, as well as a number of office and other buildings for businesses and institutions in Dayton. Built in 1939, Wright Memorial Public Library is important as an extant example of the firm's work, and their ability to apply architectural conventions of a style to a variety of building types. A complete inventory of Schenck and Williams buildings does not exist; therefore, it is not known if this is their only library design. What is known is that Wright Memorial Public Library is a well-preserved example of a Tudor-styled library with its half-timbering, casement windows, Flemish bond brick work, a steeply-pitched slate-covered roof, multi-paned windows, large window bays, and stone decoration at doors, windows and gable ends, all prominent elements characteristic of the Tudor Revival style. In 1939, at the time of construction, the Tudor style was still a popular architecture choice. But the choice of Tudor architecture and the firm of Schenck and Williams are also representative ot he city of Oakwood's tradition of rewarding civic building designs to this well-respected firm and using their signature style.
National Register of Historic Places Homepage
Librarian Debbie Boyle, right, smiles while making braclets with Jocelyn Saenz, left, at the Flowing Wells branch of the Pima County Public Library taken on March 27, 2013.
As a reward for reading during the Summer, the library has a special event for the kids at the city pool with swimming and hot dogs!
As a reward for reading during the Summer, the library has a special event for the kids at the city pool with swimming and hot dogs!
"My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything."
Title: Centrale Bibliotheek
Other title: Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven Universiteitsbibliotheek; Central University Library; University Library Leuven; Central Library; Centrale Bibliotheek KU Leuven
Creator: Fabre, Jan, 1958-
Creator role: Artist
Date: 2000-2004
Current location: Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Flanders, Belgium
Description of work: The sculpture was a gift from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven) to the city in honor of its 575th birthday in 2000. With the beetle, Fabre appropriates the Ancient Egyptian scarab, a symbol of change and rebirth reflected in both the city and the library's histories of rebuilding out of destruction. "Fabre called his work 'Totem' because it is a sign around which people gather. It is a tribute to life and death. Moreover, in the university city of Leuven it applauds science and knowledge, and this explains why it can be found in front of the Library as Egyptian obelisks were placed in front of a temple" (Source: Coppens, Chris, Mark Derez and Jan Roegiers, eds. Leuven University Library 1425-2000. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2005. p. 491). The needle is 23 meters high and the beetle is 3 meters long.
Description of view: Sculpture of teal and copper colored beetle pierced by a silver needle.
Work type: Sculpture
Style of work: Contemporary: Postmodern
Culture: Belgian
Materials/Techniques: Metal
Source: Pisciotta, Henry (copyright Henry Pisciotta)
Date photographed: 2009
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG
Image size: 2304H X 3072W pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. For additional details see: www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digital/copyright.html#archpublic
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2013-0216 Central Library.jpg
Record ID: WB2013-0216
Sub collection: libraries
Copyright holder: Copyright Henry Pisciotta
Taking a careful look at this two-year old photo I just discovered one of my Moleskine notebooks under the cd case. My version of "finding Waldo."
As a reward for reading during the Summer, the library has a special event for the kids at the city pool with swimming and hot dogs!
Communist Academy Library
A research institute and institution of higher learning established in Moscow in 1918 as the Socialist Academy, it was renamed the Communist Academy in 1924. It had an implicit rivalry with the long-established Russian Academy of Sciences (later Soviet Academy of Sciences). It gained particular influence in the social sciences and law, although it had institutes of history, philosophy, literature, natural sciences, and art among others. Due to its relatively independent status it became an early victim of Joseph Stalin’s burgeoning purges and was shut down and absorbed into the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1936.
This book stamp is from a book looted by the Nazis and sorted by Colonel Seymour Pomrenze, one of “the Monuments Men,” at the Offenbach Archival Depot.
There are two scrapbooks of archival markings from the books sorted at the Offenbach Depot in the Seymour Pomrenze Collection held by the American Jewish Historical Society (Call number P-933) There is a finding aid for the collection here The digitized scrapbooks are available here and here.
For more information on this project check the Center’s blog: 16thstreet.tumblr.com/tagged/Offenbach-Depot
Dr. Mitch Fraas, Acting Director of the Digital Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries' Special Collections Center is working on a similar project for the German book stamps based on NARA microfilm of the volumes the American Jewish Historical Society currently holds. See viewshare.org/views/mfraas/offenbach-bookplates/
The Center for Jewish History would like to acknowledge the following: The American Jewish Historical Society, who graciously allowed the use of their archival materials and digital content; Mitch Fraas, Acting Director of the Digital Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries' Special Collections Center, for his data and technical assistance in this project; David Rosenberg, Senior Manager for Communications, and Melanie Meyers, Senior Reference Services Librarian for Special Collections, for managing and creating the digital map; as well as Reference Services Librarian Zachary Loeb and Reference Services Assistant Ilya Slavutskiy for their work on translating and mapping.
For copyright information, click here
As a reward for reading during the Summer, the library has a special event for the kids at the city pool with swimming and hot dogs!
As a reward for reading during the Summer, the library has a special event for the kids at the city pool with swimming and hot dogs!