Oct 29, 2019
Amazing libraries from around the world
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Amazing libraries from around the world
The Biblioteca Vasconcelos in Mexico City was one of the best bookish locations I've ever visited. The floating-like shelves, the huge light-filled halls, the garden and balconies to go read in. Absolutely incredible. I wish I could have read there for hours. I wish it was nearby and I could go there every day.
Mirrored Chinese Bookstore Offers Readers a Maze of Discovery
Mirrored Chinese Bookstore Offers Readers a Maze of Discovery
The newest of China’s surreal mirrored bookstores is now open in Chongqing, offering a disorienting, Escher-like experience to all who enter. Designed by X+Living, the Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore leads visitors through an unassuming glass facade on the third floor of Zodi Plaza and into a reflective maze full of reading materials waiting to be discovered.
Within the lobby is an arrangement…
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Rail Impressive: Former Industrial Train Shed Becomes a Modern Library
Rail Impressive: Former Industrial Train Shed Becomes a Modern Library
Without sacrificing any of its industrial charm, Dutch architects transformed an old train shed into a gorgeous library and community event space. “LocHal” is Tilburg’s “new public city forum,” says Civic Public Architecture, which completed the project alongside Braaksma & Roos Architects and interior design firm Inside Outside. Not only have they proven the extraordinary potential for reuse of…
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The Beauty of Books: Journey Through The World’s Most Ornate Libraries
The Beauty of Books: Journey Through The World’s Most Ornate Libraries
Some of the world’s most stunning old structures were built to house books with a reverence equal to that of cathedrals, every grand hall, domed ceiling and hand-carved scroll a testament to the importance of the tomes. All over the world, ornate libraries act as veritable temples of knowledge, their very proportions inspiring feelings of awe from the moment you step through the door.
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Johns Hopkins University George Peabody Library in Baltimore, United States
Not Just Science Fiction: Incredible Futuristic Tianjin Binhai Library by MVRDV
Not Just Science Fiction: Incredible Futuristic Tianjin Binhai Library by MVRDV
Looking like something out of a Kubrick film, the new Tianjin Binhai Library by MVRDVand local firm TUPDI features cascading floor-to-ceiling bookshelves that double as benches centered around a luminous sphere. From outside, the library has the appearance of a mysterious eye, with the layered interior elements acting as louvres for the facade. Gaze up at the walls from ground level and it seems…
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Palaces of Self-Discovery: Photos Document the World’s Most Beautiful Libraries
Palaces of Self-Discovery: Photos Document the World’s Most Beautiful Libraries
Symmetrical photographs reveal the elegant geometries present in the architecture of some of the world’s most beautiful libraries, captured by Thibaud Poirier. The Paris-based photographer has traveled throughout Europe, visiting places like the Bibliotheque de la Sorbonne, the modern white Stadtbibliothek in Stuttgart, Dublin’s Trinity College Library and the church-like Biblioteca Angelica in…
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