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The main building of the National Library contains some of the finest examples of Finnish architecture. It was built in 1845 by Carl Ludvig Engel in the Empire style after the university and library were moved from Turku to Helsinki. The exterior has a golden yellow color, Corinthian columns and a green dome. The interior is decorated with classical statues, paintings and marble..
Boston Public Library, McKim Building
Location: Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts
Built: 1895
Architects: Charles Follen McKim
Architectural style: Renaissance Revival, Beaux-Arts
Projecting windows on T S Eliot House, by Haworth Tompkins architects, which forms the new extension to the London Library.
This is my pastiche of what a Buzzfeed aimed at Librarians might look like.
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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!
Dutch book trade label from Boek en kantoorboekhandel Kramer, LEESBIBLIOTHEEK, Winterswijk, The Netherlands. Leesbibliotheek means library. I collect these Dutch labels because i write a book about the private Dutch libraries. They are all gone now, since the 60/70's .
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!
You know you've been a townie for a long time when… you realize the "new" addition to the public library is 25 years old.
The proposal to replace the downtown library that voters turned down in 2012 might have been over-ambitious. But I've always been slightly bothered by the way the square bricks look on the top floors added in 1991. Visually they just seem "heavier" than the normal-sized brick of the 1974 east wing underneath. It's also a little weird that they protrude about 1/4" further out.
The opening of Rochdale's new Library was celebrated by all sorts of interesting people. But here are decorative art works in the children's and story-telling area.
Some of the uglier buildings will be hidden when the trees are leaved.
The figure on the Hall of Memory in Birmingham seems to contemplate, with horror, the rise of the new Birmingham Central library. This particular bronze commemorates the air force.
Anythink Libraries wanted to remodel their Washington Branch. In this case they were looking for a 3-5 year solution, knowing that there was the possibility of relocating this branch library in the near future. The budget was modest for construction. We were encouraged to reuse what we could and new items were purchase with the intent of moving with the library.
By doing the following we were able to open up the floor plan, exposing the whole library to natural light and outside views.
•Split up the functions of the one circulation desk into two smaller staff pods.
•Relocate the community room to the first floor
•Relocate the staff area to the first floor
•Removing all interior walls in the library, exposing exterior windows
•Weeding the collection allowed for lower stack heights
•Using the elevator lobby for the self check units
•Purchasing new multi-use furniture scaled to the size of a smaller library.
New carpet and paint added to the package. Anythink brought in their branding to make this library feel and function as their new libraries.
Group3 Planners created the layout of the library, interior design, construction documents, and selected the furniture.
Group3 Planners plans and designs libraries. Learn more about Group3 Planners and our other projects at www.group3planners.com
Photos by Group3 Planners
Public Library, Southborough, MA. Restocking the shelves in the children's room after the July flood.
Where you like to work on group projects - Library
Why is it a good place for group work? Lots of research at out use and great place to compile all of it
By renowned practice Bradshaw, Gass and Hope, 1929-32. Rebuilt after war damage. Contemporary inter-war classical complex on wedge shaped site, consisting of D-plan Library and Registrar's Office with straight front to road, small Porter's Lodge to side and free-standing rectangular-plan Theatre (formerly Town Hall) to rear with curving colonnade corresponding to Library.
Cream sandstone ashlar. Oval portico in antis with Roman Doric screen and Town crest in cartouche supported by swag above cornice; octagonal lantern. Original glazed revolving door in timber case with pair of panelled leaves; fluted Ionic pilasters with dentilled cornice and anthemion frieze and cresting; plate glass fanlight with wrought-iron fleur-de-lys grille.
This extensive inter-war classical composition is set tightly on a prominent corner site and it is a major example of this building type for the period. It was a prominent public commission by a successful English practice (Bolton) who came to specialise in Methodist churches and civic complexes during the inter-war period. Bradshaw Gass and Hope's extraordinary output is comparable to that of Vincent Harris, with commissions for other civic complexes won at Wimbledon, Stratford, Lewisham, Luton and Chesterfield. The practice was responsible for the reconstruction after it was bomb-damaged in WW2.
Built on the site of North Leith Manse as a condition of Leith's final incorporation with Edinburgh.
This is the Library as it was a couple of weeks ago. We have come a long way in the past 6 months.
There is still a lot of work to do: air conditioning, lights, more Arabic books, a computerised index system, etc. However, you can see the progress we have made. I got a bit fed up with the meetings and took the approach that I'd tell people what I was going to do and then get on and do it (quickly) - if they didn't want me to do it, they'd tell me to stop...
Personally I find this quite rewarding - fighting the "War on Terror" (sic) with words instead of bullets.