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The Great Court at the British Museum, officially named the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, is a two-acre covered square at the center of the British Museum. Opened in December 2000 and designed by Foster and Partners, the space transformed the museum’s inner courtyard—formerly occupied by the British Library bookstacks—into the largest covered public square in Europe. Its signature feature is the sweeping glass and steel roof, engineered by Buro Happold and built by Waagner-Biro, composed of 3,312 uniquely shaped panes. The 19th-century domed Reading Room sits at its heart, encircled by circulation routes, galleries, and visitor facilities.
The British Museum Reading Room, located at the heart of the Great Court, was designed by Sydney Smirke and opened in 1857 to house the growing library of the British Museum. Constructed of cast iron, concrete, and a papier-mâché dome inspired by the Pantheon, the room’s circular design accommodated thousands of books and readers, with surrounding iron bookstacks and forty kilometers of shelving. It served as the principal reading room of the British Library until the collection relocated to St Pancras in 1997. After restoration, the Reading Room reopened in 2000 for general visitors, later hosting major exhibitions from 2007 to 2013 before closing for archival use until reopening in 2023.
The British Museum, located in Bloomsbury, London, was established in 1753 and opened in 1759 as the world’s first national public museum. Originally housed in Montagu House, it now occupies a grand neoclassical building designed by Sir Robert Smirke, constructed between 1823 and 1852 on the same site. The museum’s encyclopedic collection of over eight million objects spans over two million years of human history, with major highlights including the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, and the Sutton Hoo treasures--many of which remain the subject of ongoing repatriation discussions.
Senate House and Institute of Education. 1932-1938. By Charles Holden, built with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. Brick load-bearing construction with Portland stone facing. Symmetrical design, not completed, comprising central tower flanked by two courtyard ranges to either side. The southern, completed half, houses the ceremonial and administrative functions of the University of London. The northern half houses the Institute of Historical Research and School of Slavonic Studies in more functional surrounding: north-east wing not completed. The initial concept of a single, spinal building extending the length of Torrington Square was abandoned as building began, but survives in model form displayed on the first floor balcony of Senate House. EXTERIOR: central, higher fourth floor is the University library, with above it offices and bookstack housed in the formal 18-storey tower built in recessed stages with broad central buttresses on the east and west sides. 6 windows at 1st floor level. 4 and 5 storey wings with 10-window forward return and 14 windows width each. Under enriched, flat canopies, 2 square-headed entrances each side of the central buttress, all with 2-leaf glass doors with vertically patterned metal grills. Above the canopies small rectangular windows with patterned grills and keystones. Square-headed, recessed windows with metal frames, those at 1st floor level on the tower being elongated with enriched spandrel panels and flanked by medium sized windows at the angles, with balconies, culminating in lunettes at 6th floor level. From the 2nd floor to the 18th, small vertically set windows, in groups of 3 until the penultimate stage when they are continuous. Flanking wings with metal balconies to windows at angles. Flat roofs with plain bands at parapet levels. East facade similar. Inner courtyards similarly treated, with hopper heads dated 1936... HISTORICAL NOTE: built as a landmark, in 1937 this was the tallest building in London apart from St Paul's Cathedral. EH Listing
I am way behind on my reading. Part of the problem is that I can't resist picking up a good book, even when my stack is this tall.
Some of these have been paritally read, but none have been completely read.
...and that's saying a LOT, because there is some AMAZING stuff in there. This is on the second floor, in the men's restroom.
A stack of some of the books I've read in the past two or three weeks. I just realized I've been reading a lot of family fiction lately; these four have one thing in common: skeletons in the family closet.
*For my book groups
Books I received this week:
Tempest by Julie Cross
Crossed by Ally Condie
Darkness Falls by Cate Tiernan
Pure by Julianna Baggott
British Library book store, Micawber Street, Hackney, London N1. There are three main floors for book storage with a mezzanine for offices.
Living Room: Overflow Top layer
The books flow in an out, as I weed out the ones I didn't like and reread the ones I did.
Obra de Gottfried Helnwein
Foto tomada con #iPhone4s editada con #PhotoRLApp para #IOS
San Carlos.
Ciudad de México.
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Arlyn Quinn.
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View of a range in the old Douglas Library stacks with the collection counted and flagged for the move to the new Stauffer Library building.
Great Court: history and design
In the original Robert Smirke design the courtyard was meant to be a garden. However, in 1852–7 the Reading Room and a number of bookstacks were built in the courtyard to house the library department of the Museum and the space was lost.
In 1997, the Museum’s library department was relocated to the new British Library building in St Pancras and there was an opportunity to re-open the space to public.
An architectural competition was launched to re-design the courtyard space. There were over 130 entries and it was eventually won by Lord Foster.
The competition brief had three aims:
Revealing hidden spaces
Revising old spaces
Creating new spaces
The £100 million project was supported by grants of £30 million from the Millennium Commission and £15.75 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The Great Court was opened on 6 December 2000 by Her Majesty the Queen.
The vast expanses of blue tile at Pius are great by themselves.
But with big, old, monochromatic serials runs in front of them, they're even nicer.
(part of my Seattle Public Library set)
Seattle Central Library
Seattle, Washington
cc 2005 Eden Politte
Image Description: Interior of the Library, showing bookstacks, filing cabinet, and desks. Bright sunlight is reflecting off books.
Date Original: May 21, 1923
Item Number: ua000175
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