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This image is composed of 4 exposures (1 stop intervals) merged in Photomatix Pro, stitched and post processed using Nik Color Efex Pro 4 and Topaz plug-ins in CS6.
The “temporarily closed” John Monteith branch library on Detroit’s east side. From what I can figure, it has been closed since 2011. At that time, during October, the city tore down the Mark Twain Branch that had been for almost a decade closed - with the books and supplies left to rot.
Detroit, Michigan
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.
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!
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-...
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
At Hughenden, the home of Benjamin Disraeli, who was the favourite Prime Minister of Queen Victoria.
Trying to find the ordered books in the library.
Captured with my X100's and processed in Aperture with VSCO films.
Shooting at night with no lighting really freaked me out! I was worried I would get only blurry results, but this 50mm/1.4 really takes in the available light well! I might try some more night shots...
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!
in the central atrium area of the open-plan Ottawa branch, Putnam County District Library, if they want to have a large reception or other event, they can easily move these shelves out of the way.
Bell, Marjorie.
Title and date from acquisition documentation.; Part of: Collection of photographs from Marjorie Bell's trip around Australia, 1928-1929.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3098496.
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October 12, 2013 - Washington DC., 2013 World Bank Group / IMF Annual Meetings.2013 Small States Forum. Photo: Steven Shapiro / World Bank
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!
Rathmines Branch Library re-opened after extensive refurbishment on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011.
Following the completion of improvement works, Dublin City Public Libraries are pleased to announce new and improved services at Rathmines Library – providing welcome ease of access for all.
Improvements include:
The provision of a lift
A user friendly self-service system
Accessible public toilets
Upgraded lighting and heating
Improved signage
New shelving
A new accessible public counter
Call in and see what's on offer!
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.
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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!
Located in the Mount Vernon Cultural District of Baltimore, Maryland. The library is arguably one of the most beautiful in the US. Known as "The Cathedral of Books," the interior feature an atrium that, over black and white marble floor, soars 61 feet to a lattices skylight surrounded by five-tiers of ornamental cast-ironed balconies and gold-scalloped columns.
Library of Birmingham Opened by Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl shot by the Taliban. on the 3rd Sep 2013 ... The £189m Library of Birmingham, which houses one million books and is the largest in Europe .it was designed by