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University of Derby’s Kedleston Road Library, with dedicated spaces for Collaborative learning, group work and self motivated study
bloor gladston library / rdh architects / toronto, canada
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Akaroa Library, Friday, 17 January 2020.
File reference: 2020-01-17-DSC00507
Taken by Moata Tamaira.
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
Notes: new Katoomba Library
Format: Photograph, colour digital
Repository: Blue Mountains Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Photographer: John Merriman
My back up shot for today...
These are the lights on the Sainsburys car park side of the Oldham Library
Castle and crenellated shelves in the children's section of Lincoln central library.
Photo credit: Julia Chandler/Libraries Taskforce
Seattle Public Library
Architect: Rem Koolhaas
Here one gets a pretty good feeling of how the individual levels more or less 'float' above one-another, each stack of floors representing a different function. As each 'function-block' is horizontally shifted, the facade 'net' simply follows this shift.
or Chicago Public Library, depending.
(What are these types of columns called, btw? I never can remember)
Title: Cushing Library - 8
Digital Publisher: Digital: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Physical Publisher: Physical: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University
Description: photograph date: Unknow; Cushing Library
Date Issued: 2009-09
Format Medium: 8x10
Type: image
Identifier: Photograph Location: Cushing Library-6
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Title: "Venezia. Beschrieben von H. Perl. Mit Original-Zeichnungen von Ettore Tito ... Herausgegeben von E. M. Engel"
Author(s): Engel, Emil H. [person] ; Perl, Henry [person]
British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 10131.i.10"
Page: 176 (scanned page number - not necessarily the actual page number in the publication)
Place of publication: Wien
Date of publication: 1895
Type of resource: Monograph
Language(s): German
Physical description: vii, 248 pages (4°)
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002873574 (physical copy) and 014847828 (digitised copy)
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Birmingham's much maligned Central Library is now being demolished and will be replaced by a more nondescript group of commercial buildings. It was one of the most famous/infamous examples of architecture of the modernist / 'brutalist' style in England, constructed in 1974 to the design of John Madin.
Dubbed as one of Britain's ugliest buildings, it had nonetheless become something of an iconic period landmark and thus there was some opposition to the decision to demolish the complex.
The form had been referred to as the 'inverted ziggurat' given it's resemblance to one of the ancient Middle Eastern pyramid-like structures, only turned on it's head! It was also famously described by Prince Charles as looking "more like a place for burning books than reading them!"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Central_Library
I have more mixed feelings about the whole process, the building had been in a sorry state for some years, its massive dull grey exterior was a depressing sight to many, not helped by the council's decision to cut the budget when it was originally commissioned and replace the architect's planned white marble clad exterior with the grey concrete finish that became so notorious. It also suffered insensitive conversion of the originally open ground floor into the unsightly and cluttered Paradise Forum in the late 1980s, which wrecked the original effect.
I remember first seeing the building on a school trip in 1980 when it looked quite different, cleaner, whiter, uncluttered and open at its lowest storey, giving a totally different effect from the mess it later became. As a six-year-old I thought it all looked like something from a sci-fi film and was quite impressed (though in later years found it less inspiring, seeing how grey it had become). The building and I were roughly the same age, it having first opened to the public the month before my birth in 1974.
The Austrian National Library (German: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, abbreviated "ÖNB" and formerly Hofbibliothek ), is , with 7.4 million items in its collections, the largest library in Austria. It is located in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna; since 2005 some of the collections find themselves in the baroque Palais Mollard-Clary. Founded by the Habsburgs, the library was originally located in the current Prunksaal building and called the Hofbibliothek, changing to its current name after 1920.[1]
The collections consist of: papyri, manuscripts, ancient and rare books, maps, globes, music, portraits, graphics, photographs, autographs and posters as well as works in and on Esperanto and other artificial languages are stored in the various collections and are available for scientific research.
from Wikipedia source
September was National Library Card Sign-Up Month. The Library celebrated by giving all Villa park card-holders the opportunity to enter a free drawing for a $25 Staples gift card which was won by Charles Slepicka. Thanks to the Friends of the Villa Park Friends of the Library for their sponsorship.