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My effort for Macro Mondays on the theme of Pins - this was from daughter's collection of badges - would guess they are 20-25 years old.
Really....is there anything better than a public library? Tonight, after supper, was library day! These are just a few of my "loans" :-)
Library of Celsus is one of the most iconic ruins of the ancient world, located in Ephesus (near modern Selçuk, Turkey).
Built: c. 110–135 AD during Roman rule
Purpose: A monumental library and tomb for the Roman senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus (unusual—he’s buried beneath it)
Collection: Estimated 12,000 scrolls, making it one of the largest libraries of antiquity after Alexandria and Pergamon
Architectural highlights
Grand façade: Two stories with columns and niches, restored in the 1970s
Statues (symbolic):
Sophia (Wisdom)
Episteme (Knowledge)
Ennoia (Intelligence)
Arete (Virtue)
Clever design: Double walls helped protect scrolls from heat and humidity
What you see today
The façade is the star attraction (the interior was largely destroyed by fire and earthquakes)
I visited a library known for its unique architecture in Gifu city, Japan. The wooden ceiling design and translucent canopies were very impressive. There are Starbucks and a convenience store downstairs. I can spend a whole day here.
岐阜市立中央図書館（みんなの森 ぎふメディアコスモス）で
居心地が良くて一日中過ごせそうな図書館でした。
The eye catching 1934 built public library situated next door to the Town Hall in Manchester forms the background to a pair of redundant phone boxes.
The library has an interesting past. Not so much this building as this is the forth such public library site in Manchester. The first which was opened in 1852 when the opening celebrations were attended by Charles Dickens. This library became the first local authority funded library in the country.
Going back much further to 1633 the Worlds first public library, Chethams Library (privately funded) was opened nearby in Manchester.
Entrance to the State Library Victoria, on Swanston Street, Melbourne. I love the combination of the stately building with the patterned tiles in the entrance way.
Adjoining the cathedral in Siena is the Piccolomini Library, housing precious illuminated choir books and frescoes painted by the Umbrian Bernardino di Betto.
The visual impact of these very colorful frescoes is stunning. The frescoes tell the story of the life of Siena's favorite son, cardinal Enea Silvio Piccolomini, who eventually became Pope Pius II.
Eugene, Oregon
I love it when I'm out shooting some other things and I happen upon one of these small neighborhood libraries.
Panasonic LUMIX GH5II
Panasonic LUMIX DG Vario-Elmarit 12-35mm f:2.8
Claremont Hastings
brassey institute
gothic architecture
designed for Thomas Brassey
in 1878 when he was Hastings MP
Walter liberty Vernon was designer
The Cumberland Library, in Rhode Island, was a Trappist monastery before it was a library. Originally called Monastery of Our Lady of the Valley, this Gothic structure housed 140 monks until being ravished by a fire in the 1950s.
Afterward, the monks relocated to a new monastery and the remaining buildings were repurposed into the Cumberland Public Library.
Since then, rumors of hauntings in the older parts of the building began to spread. Sightings of ghostly monks, unexplained sounds and the like have been reported by employees and patrons.
A short walk through the forest surrounding the monastery turned library will lead you to Nine Men's Misery--a haunted mass grave of nine colonial soldiers that were tortured to death three hundred years ago.
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Koning Lodewijk Napoleon koos in 1807 Utrecht als zijn residentie. Voor zijn paleis kocht hij een aantal panden, o.a. aan de Drift, en liet de "'grande galerie" en hofkapel nieuw bouwen. Onder leiding van J.D. Zocher sr. was zijn paleis snel gereed, hij woonde er echter maar een paar maanden. De balzaal werd in 1817 verbouwd tot bibiliotheek voor de universiteit. Vanaf 1960 was de grande galerie alleen nog maar in gebruik als boekenopslag. Met de recente verbouwing zijin de galerie en de voormalige kapel weer onderdeel van de bibliotheek.
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The library was built as part of a Jesuit College in the Baroque Style and is home to a collection of 20,000 rare books!
As well as bookshelves full of old, rare texts, you’ll find frescoes, astronomical globes, and portraits that decorate the room.
It is truly breathtaking.
Taking photos was somewhat of a challenge as the library is constantly kept at certain temperature and humidity and very, very dark.
Powell Library is the main college undergraduate library on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It was constructed from 1926 to 1929 and was one of the original four buildings that comprised the UCLA campus in the early period of the university's life. Its Romanesque Revival architecture design, its historic value and its popularity with students make it one of the defining images of UCLA. Like the building facing it across the quad, Royce Hall, the building's exterior is modeled after Milan's Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio.
Hadrian's Library was created by Roman Emperor Hadrian in AD 132 on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens.
The building followed a typical Roman forum architectural style, having only one entrance with a propylon of Corinthian order, a high surrounding wall with protruding niches (oikoi, exedrae) at its long sides, an inner courtyard surrounded by columns and a decorative oblong pool in the middle. The library was on the eastern side where rolls of papyrus "books" were kept. Adjoining halls were used as reading rooms, and the corners served as lecture halls.
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
This week Deering Library at Northwestern University has been lit up by Marco Rotelli's light installation.
According to the Northwestern website, "Rotelli took inspiration from the famous Dylan Thomas poem “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” and its refrain “Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light.” The light installation will celebrate the triumph of the human spirit over the forces of cold and melancholy -- with lines from Shakespeare, Dante, Dickinson and others projected onto Deering’s soaring façade." The Daily Northwestern also has a nice article.
The oldest part of this former monastery is from the early 12th century. Nowadays it is both a literary college and a conference center
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The public library in Seattle has an impressive architecture. This is a shot from an upper floor down to the entrance floor. People are looking for references in shelves with cards. There is a carpet with a tangle pattern.
Borrego Springs Library. Project Architect/Designer: RNT Architects (Ralph Roesling, Partner in Charge; Raúl Díaz, Project Architect; Brandon Martella, Architect; Summer Spencer, Designer). Completed in 2019 for the County of San Diego.