Good wood - a wooden wonderland built on a hillside on the outskirts of Portland plays host to a family of musicians who wanted separate spaces to play their different instruments. ence why it’s called the ‘Music Box’, by Scott Edwards Architects.
Books in Display Provide Texture to this Library Façade
The new
Biscay Statutory Library by IMB Arquitectos
is composed of three buildings: the existing old palace and two new structures.
The palace, an eclectic dwelling built in in 1929, has been restored completely and partially
reconstructed
in order to house the required reading and investigation rooms. Furnished with free access shelves that hold 25 percent of the bibliographic funds. Interiors have been design to provide open spaces as much as possible. A second volume
external appearance is based on the texture the stones give to the façade and is occupied with administrative and technical functions.
A third volume, with a transparent glass skin, houses the compact archives surrounded by a perimeter walk, with boundary-free shelves, which allows the texture of books to be in display for the city, like a cultural call.
Based on the calculations of an inspired fan, we put together a list of how many galleons you can expect to shell out to peep the next Chudley Cannons game.
harry gave fred and george $25k to make a joke shop bc he thought people needed the laughs and he didn’t want the money
The library as a closed fortress of knowledge is a thing of the past. New libraries are open beacons of information that promote interaction between the users, integrate new technologies to access information and include confortable reading areas for everyone to enjoy. Most of the library visualizations included in this photo set belong to competitions entries that were not the selected entry, except the last two images of Snøhetta’s Calgary New Central Library, but they all alude to this new library ideal.
Helsinki Central Library AAKAA & MARS Architectes (images 01 +02)
Between Books and Trees
South Korea
JAJA
(images 03 +04)
National Library of Israel ODA
(images 05 +06)
Kazakhstan
National Library BIG
(images 07 +08)
Calgary New Central Library Snøhetta
(images 09 +10)
Good wood - Slovenian architects Aljoša Dekleva and Tina Gregorič have built a wooden library inside their national Biennale pavilion, titled ‘Home at Arsenale’.
Irekua Anatani House is located at
Avandaro Edo. de México and was designed by
BROISSINarchitects.
From the architect:
The name “Avandaro” comes from a Purépecha (a native language) word that means “place of the orchard” or “place in the clouds”. It was a territory originally inhabited by the tarasco indigenous people; who gave it this name, from whose language this house takes its alias, “Irekua”: Family house, and “Anatani”: to be under a tree: Irekua Anatani = Family house under the trees. Inspired by the land, which lies covered by showy trees, principally by oyamel trees, pine trees and encino trees, from the very first visit to the property we thought that the house had to enjoy the splendor of living under this density and be intrinsically a part of it by safeguarding most of the trees and the existing forest. This gave meaning to the architectural concept that took as a foundation platform a tranquil and partly open space in the middle of the mountain. The program was adapted to that topography, adjusting each space according to its use and function within the community of the whole house.
The design by XL-Museof Hangzhou Zhongshuge uses optical illusions to create a neverending bookstore that seems to extend in all directions, in order to satisfy the goal established by the client of creating the most beautiful bookstore in the world.
From the architect:
Looking through the glass curtain, a pure white space consisting of circular bookshelf pillars escape the shackles of the surrounding environment. These white pillars carrying books rise up straight to the sky. Under the reflection of ceiling mirror, they seem to have a conversation beyond time. Additionally, the wall mirror doubles the transverse dimension to enable the whole book spaces to seem unbounded as the real nature.
Walking on the central axis of the forest zone and walking through a doorway as guided by the lights to the border of light and shade, we transit from the lightness to the profound main hall of Zhongshuge – an oncoming quiet reading corridor. Here, the entire bookshelf extends endlessly to the side. The darker and lighter-colored shelves are orderly advanced or retreated, as changing mountains or unattainable ladders or fortitude upright spines to silently convey the power of knowledge to us. The chandeliers floating in the ceiling mirror softens the entire space like a firefly. People under the lights, recollect the aromatic coffee or mediate in the world of books. Cross the corridor is the stair reading area. The circular skylight pours down from the ceiling mirror, and the encircling bookshelves look like the swirling lamp belt.
In the Hangzhou Zhongshuge, there is also a children pavilion, which is a book playground. The designer arts bookshelves as playground facilities including merry-go-round, roller coaster, hot air balloons and pirate ships to give children a happy reading experience as if playing in the playground, while the floor of galaxy maps not only inspires the imagination of children and also interestingly educate them the knowledge of galaxy.
