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MVRDV has won the competition to design Wuhan, China’s new central library. The firm revealed the design for Wuhan Library, which has a canyon of books formed by a succession of sloping terraces. Wuhan Library is a 140,000 square meter project that will be “one of the largest libraries in China,” integrating traditional and modern uses and includes a variety of study, living room, reading, and studio areas.
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Designed by Strasbourg-based firm Dominique Coulon & associés, it challenges the traditional function of a library by serving as a place of creation, where visitors take on an active role as participants in their own environment.
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Northside Library by NBBJ, Libraries are in transition. Once a point of knowledge dissemination and quiet introspection, they are becoming places to meet, socialize, study, hang out and plugin. Historically, we have seen a library’s civic value shift from a place for things, now, to a place for people.
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Its wavy shelves are designed around a circular auditorium.
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New York City Public Library
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Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Image 25 of 41 from gallery of Albion Library / Perkins+Will Canada. Photograph by Michael Muraz
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The most beautiful bookstores are places of communication, curiosity, and the new, but they never lose sight of the past
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The interior of the New York Public Library, in Manhattan, New York City
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A lattice of prefabricated ceramic elements is mounted on a steel frame at a distance of 70 cm from the glazed facade. The ornaments are inspired by books arranged on shelves. At night, the light filtered by these moucharabys offers an open image of the park and the city. Learn more at Architonic.com #architonic #architecture #design #library #publiclibrary #librabrydesign #modernarchitecture #facade #archilover #architecturalphotography
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Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has unveiled designs for a 140,000 square metre library in Wuhan, China.
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