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This striking glass and steel structure, completed in 2004, was designed by the award-winning Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas as a replacement for the city's 1960 Central Library.
The unusual shape of the building was once a source of controversy, but the Koolhaas Library is now regarded as one of Seattle's architectural highlights.
The 11-floor library includes works of art worth a staggering $1 million and an innovative "Books spiral", allowing visitors maximum access to the collection.
County Library, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
Architect not found, but plainly the work of the Johns, Slater Haward partnership; or, if not, a remarkably well-observed copy of their house style of the late 1950s. It bears a strong resemblance to their Sprites Schools, Ipswich, completed in 1960. Outside, triangular groups of wooden and metal rectangular frames fill to lift the geometric roofs. Internally, a typical JSH motif, the jolly wooden framing in the shape of a ship's hull. The pendulous lights may well be original.
All that is missing are the cheerful Bernard Reynolds sculptures that were often integrated into the structure of their buildings at this time. However, the concrete trellis forming the porch adds the required jaunty touch.
At this intersection controlled by a traffic signal, Library Lane extends east to the library parking lot and Roosevelt Place. Westbound is Maine Avenue. North-south is North Village Avenue.
Vertical panorama of the 5th Avenue side of the Seattle Public Library. Four pictures stitched together.
Photograph: Jay Paul
Image Taken: January 19, 2016
Rights: VCU Libraries. Attribution Required.
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Title/View: Warsaw University Library: exterior view of main entrance from the south
Title: Warsaw University Library
Other title: Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie; BUW
Creator: Budzynski, Marek; Badowski, Zbigniew
Creator role: Architect
Creator 2: Bajerska, Irena
Creator 2 role: Landscape architect
Date: 1994-2002
Current location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Description of work: Located between the Vistula River and the Warsaw Escarpment on a culturally and ecologically significant site, the library's design is based on a "city in the woods" concept and was the winning entry of the 1993 design competition for the building. The library is built within the existing topography of the landscape (two levels below grade and two levels above grade) and is constructed of reinforced concrete, steel, glass, and pre-patinated copper. The building's 5,000 square meter green roof is watered by a stormwater irrigation system and contains four thematic gardens, each of which is surrounded by massive skylights and connected by steel bridges. The roof gardens provide expansive views of the city and are integrated into the adjacent University Public Garden by grand staircases and linear water channels. "The library's interior is divided both functionally and physically by a glass enclosed street arcade, which serves to separate and connect the library stacks andleased commercial space.The copper facade along Dobra Street displays eight [4x7 meter] copper tablets containing six different alphabets, mathematical and chemical equations and musical and literary concepts." (Sources: Linke, Lybra, "University Gardens, Warsaw" Topos. Jan. 2005, vol. 51, pp 98-102; Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie. www.buw.uw.edu.pl/en/index.php?option=com_content&tas... Accessed 6/1/16.
Description of view: Looking between the metal structure and ivy-covered building to the main entrance beyond. Bicycles are parked in front of this south entrance to the library.
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Style of work: Contemporary: Postmodern
Culture: Polish
Materials/Techniques: Metal
Glass
Plants
Source: Pisciotta, Henry (copyright Henry Pisciotta)
Date photographed: May 2011
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG
Image size: 3648H X 2736W pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted.
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2014-0294 Library.jpg
Record ID: WB2014-0294
Sub collection: libraries
campuses
Copyright holder: Copyright Henry Pisciotta
The recently completed Sahuarita Library of the Pima County Library system, located at 670 W. Sahuarita Rd. in Sahuarita, AZ opened its doors on September 7, 2021.
News release: www.library.pima.gov/news/the-new-sahuarita-library-to-op...
Photos taken August 11, 2021
Please credit Pima County Communications
2009.10 / canon EOS 5D MarkII *carl zeiss jena ddr FLEKTOGON 2.4/35
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北区中央図書館 City of Kita Library@十条台一丁目
desigined by 佐藤総合計画AXS SATOW inc., completed in 2008
This library is the building which took in a red brick warehouse (old Ground Self-Defense Force Jujo garrison Building No. 275) built in 1919.
1919年建築の赤レンガ倉庫（旧陸上自衛隊十条駐屯地275号棟）を取り込んだ建築。
Architectural features include massive cement walls, a Quonset style corrugated metal roof, and bright yellow shelving with red accents. A yellow brick road in the lobby directs patrons to the checkout stations. Xeriscaped landscaping with desert plants.
William Bruder
Artist and architect Will Bruder's association with the Cosanti Foundation dates back to the early workshops with Paolo Soleri held at Cosanti. He joined the Foundation's board of directors in 1995. Bruder earned a bachelors of arts degree in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is a self-trained architect who studied with Paolo Soleri, William Wenzel and Gunnar Birkets. Since opening his private design studio in 1974, he has had a distinguished career in architecture with over 350 commissions and over 400 articles published about his work.
Student on left with his personal laptop wishes he had wifi! Other student is using a school library mini that does have wifi access.
Date: 1986
Category: Library
Type: Image
Identifier: LP2222
Source: South Pasadena Public Library
Owner: South Pasadena Public Library
Previous Identifier: N/A
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Cracking the Code was an event at Clapham Library on 1 March 2016 to share and showcase learning and digital literacy activities in public libraries - find out more at www.goscl.com/codegreen
Parts of the New York Public Library have been released from scaffolding after restoration, letting me see things I never knew was there. This is the north edge top visible along Fifth Avenue, and I think this is "Life" by George Grey Barnard.
You might notice a fine mesh over it. I'm wondering if it might be there permanently to save them from pigeons, but I'm not sure.
No date. Photograph taken by Jim Slaughter.
Richard Denham, Representing City Government, Judith Burdine, Public Library Director, Jacob V. Garner, Pulaski Co. Judge
This library, designed by H.H.Richardson, is located in the North Easton Historic District, Easton MA. We went inside to look around, and met the director, Ms. Uma Hiremath. She was wonderfully helpful in guiding us to the other nearby Richardson sites.
Located in the heart of Govans just off York Road near Govans Elementary School, just two blocks from the famous Senator Theater and busy Belvedere Square, the Govans Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library serves the communities of North Central Baltimore including Govans, Belvedere, Homeland, and Radnor- Winston.
The "corridors" in the library made by the shelves are really narrow. Not to mention frightening. There seems to be light at the end of this tunnel though.
Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library, completed in 1941 at Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway contains more than million cataloged books, magazines, and multimedia materials.
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On trends.google.com I compared "libraries" (blue line) with "bookstores" (red line). Libraries are still winning, but it's getting close. Libraries are declining as a search term, whereas bookstores remain about constant. About the same results occur using the singular form for each word or for using "book stores." The lower graph shows the number of times those terms appear in Google News stories. Go libraries!