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Built for the State Library of South Australia and is a fine example of a Victorian library in the Australian colonies. North Terrace Adelaide.
South Surrey, BC
More about the Green Wall project here:
www.robaid.com/tech/green-architecture-semiahmoo-public-l...
Interior of the Rotunda Hall in the National Library of Finland, Helsinki. Architecture by Gustaf Nyström from 1906.
Geisel Library is on the campus of UCSD. It is named after Theodore and Audrey Geisel. Theodore Geisel is the creator of Dr. Seuss.
Last week I went on a short vacation with the family to San Diego. I got a chance to sneak out on Sunday morning and go up to UCSD to photograph. My intention was to photograph The Salk Institute and this the Geisel Library. To my misfortune the Salk Institute was closed but the Library was open for the taking.
I usually do all of my photography in black and white, but on this i decided to experiment with some color. So I am posting the color 1st and then I will post the Black and white.
Comparisons of the black and white and color as well as the Black and white and original will be posted to my Facebook page in the next few days.
More images from Halifax Library
An odd composition perhaps, but it caught my eye and had to be taken :o)
Library of Parliament
Centre Block, Parliament Hill
Ottawa, Canada
One photo cannot do this ceiling justice...so here's another.
I think we were there on a Saturday afternoon, but look at those Princeton students hard at work. There was not a free table in the place.
Camera Canon EOS 450D
Lens: Sigma 10-20 f/4-5.6 (click to see all my photos with this lens)
Exposure 0.125 sec (1/8)
Opening f/4.0
Focal length 10 mm
ISO 200
Excerpt from the plaque:
Primalphabet-Geographics, 1976 by Guy Ducornet: This diptych was commissioned for the Schmon tower in 1976. At that time it was called the Library Tower although it was only partially occupied by the University’s Library.
Artist and part-time instructor Guy Ducornet was excited by the idea of creating a work for a structure which, in his fertile imagination, could have appeared in Jorge Luis Gorges’ story, The Library of Babel. He envisioned two pages from an imaginary encyclopedia: Primalphabet is an alphabet of our own science and Geographics describes the evolution of time and space.
At that time there was no fine art program at Brock. He taught numerous drawing, painting and art history courses between 1975 and 1993. At first he taught in whatever rooms were available, using homemade easels and treating the whole campus as a studio. Ducornet was convinced that Brock could offer a comprehensive art program, with training provided by professional teachers and artists. A program was established in 1977. Today the Visual Arts Department flourishes within the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts and rest on the foundation set by the imagination of vision of people such as Guy Ducornet.
Guy Ducornet lives and works in France. He has a scholarly grounding in Esistentialism and Surrealism, and is an internationally recognized artist, writer, translator, poet, jazz musician as well as ceramicist in the tradition of Japanese masters.
Finally got to explore the gorgeous Halifax Library today. The best building in Halifax no question! It's taken me for ever and a day to visit it, but it didn't disappoint, more to come from here.
Visited the Central Library and this is from the front balcony. The sun was shinning. People were taking the opportunity to be in the warmth of the sun's rays.
Des Moines Public Library has an unique architecture with facades that look different in the daytime and at night (then you can both look inside and see reflections). The building also has a green roof and free parking underground. Opened: 2006. Architects: David Chipperfield, London and Substance architecture, Des Moines.