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Hemel Hempstead Library (to the right).
Photo taken on a walk around Hemel Hempstead with the 20th Century Society on 21st July 2012
Title/View: Warsaw University Library: general view of facades along Lipowa street
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 east down Lipowa street, a view of pedestrians walking in front of the alternating ivy-covered copper and glass facades. Lipowa street runs along the southeast side of the library.
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Style of work: Contemporary: Postmodern
Culture: Polish
Materials/Techniques: Glass
Metal
Plants
Source: Pisciotta, Henry (copyright Henry Pisciotta)
Date photographed: May 2011
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG
Image size: 2736H X 3648W 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: WB2014-0270 Library.jpg
Record ID: WB2014-0270
Sub collection: libraries
campuses
Copyright holder: Copyright Henry Pisciotta
Image Title: Library
Photographer/Studio: Ball Studios
Date: 1919-00-00
Description/Notes: Oregon Agricultural College Library from a photograph taken at sunset.
Original Format: Gelatin silver prints
Original Collection: Buildings Photographic Collection
Item Number: P16:0262
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Literary Institute and School of Arts new building of 1929 with further addition became the Forbes Library in 1947
Blink and you miss it. Totnes library is behind the door at the left marked 27a. Tardis like, it is much bigger inside.
Today was mental (busy). Taking photos slipped down the list of priorities. I went to the library on the weekend and came home with a haul of on-loan literature.
"In 1853, the decision to build a state library was made at the instigation of Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe and Sir Redmond Barry. A competition was held to decide who would design the new building; local architect Joseph Reed, who later designed the Melbourne Town Hall and the Royal Exhibition Building, won the commission.
On 3 July 1854, the recently inaugurated Governor Sir Charles Hotham laid the foundation stone of both the new library and the University of Melbourne. The library opened in 1856, with a collection of 3,800 books chosen by Sir Redmond, the President of Trustees. Augustus H. Tulk, the first librarian, was appointed three months after the opening.
The first reading room was the Queen's Reading Room (now Queen's Hall), which opened in 1859. Temporary buildings built in 1866 for the Intercolonial Exhibition remained in use by the library until 1909, when work began on a new annexe building to mark the library's Jubilee. This new building was the landmark Domed Reading Room, which opened in 1913 and was designed by Norman G. Peebles" - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Library_of_Victoria
The Home Library Service is one of the most important services that Council provides. For people who love books, it is unimaginable to have to do without them simply because getting to the Library becomes difficult. Thanks to our Home Library Service volunteers and librarians, the Library comes to you!
Not only does the Library come to you but a new friend comes regularly with books that you like. It is not surprising that warm and deep relationships develop between the reader and the volunteer founded on a mutual love of books and as time goes by on other interests as well.
Happy Christmas to all Home Library Readers and their Volunteers & Librarians!
Grade II listed library in Redbridge, this unusual shaped library was designed by architect Frederick Gibberd who also was responsible for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.
This is actually one of two Christmas trees in my workplace at the moment, but it will be collected tomorrow to be part of a Christmas tree festival in the local church. The tree itself was kindly lent by my boss's mum, and the star on top and the clear plastic balls came with it, and would light up if we had anywhere to connect it to mains electricity. Instead, I've added a string of white battery-operated fairy lights. The tinsel and the rest of the decorations were all either made or chosen by me, some of them left over from our collection at home (all the straw ones are from a set that belonged to my parents). It was fun to decorate this in a very different style from the one at home, using mainly white and silver, whereas we have lots of colours at home but probably more red than anything else.
Notes: the new Katoomba Library in the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
Format: colour digital photo
Date Range: 2015
Repository: Blue Mountains Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Terms of use: please credit - Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies Collection
Photo credit: John Merriman
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Johnston Library at 201 W. 10th Street in Baxter Springs Kansas. Built in 1872 and it was intended to be the County Courthouse but was never used for that purpose since Columbus got the county seat. It was used as the city hall until 1905. In 1905, Peter Nils Johnston, a Swedish immigrant, provided a bequest for the city to establish a permanent library in the building.
National Register #76000817. Added in 1976.
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