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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Beckmann-N'Thepe, Library
Beckmann-N’Thepe Architects recently has completed the University Library Marne-la-Vallée. The Beckmann-N’Thépé agency chose an audacious strategy for the design of the new Marne-la-Vallée university library, which resembles a mound of earth ‘torn from its natural environment,’ in harmony with its surroundings. ‘Between naturalism and terror, ‘the Marne-la-Vallée Library puts us in touch with our dreams – active, joyous, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Complex City, Concrete, Fluid form, Library, Random pattern
A media library, space which preserves and gives access to audio-visual contents, sound documents and video recordings, material considered as cultural testimony with the same value than written documents. Divided between paper and virtual information, it characterizes a reality of a modern way to use space, these places will evolve in a parallel manner to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Education, Interior Tags: David Wakely, Library, Noll & Tam, USA architecture
Nestled at the foot of a wooded hillside, the two-story, 30,250-square-foot Los Gatos Library provides a visual connection between the Town’s historic Pageant Park and the adjacent Civic Center. The design concept is based on the lantern, which in architectural terms suggests an open, light-filled structure. Daytime illumination optimizes the use of natural daylight, with [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: China architecture, Courtyard architecture, Kokaistudios, Library, Random pattern
Kokaistudios has been announced as the winner competition for the new Tsinghua University Law Library located in Beijing, China. The proposal stands out amount the final 5 competing firms including ECUC, RTKL, Zaha Hadid Architects and Zhubo Design Group. The project proposes a reflection on the role of void in structuring functions and programs within [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: 3XN, Art Gallery, Fluid form, Library, Norway, Theater, Waterfront architecture, White
Elegance and conviviality merge under The Arch in Mandal, Norway Historic white wooden houses, charming narrow streets, a river running though the center and beach and forest nearby. The town of Mandal is the essence of southern Norwegian idyll. Danish practice, 3XN, has designed the town’s new cultural center, a project which required great sensitivity [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Color architecture, Italy, Library, Random pattern
MedaTeca library| information| spare time The new cultural hub of Meda designed by Alterstudio Partners On 10th April 2012 MedaTeca opens to the public; the new library of Meda’s township designed by Alterstudio Partners, a modern cultural hub of more than 1.900 sq. m. entirely devoted to culture, information and spare time, connected with others [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: LEED, Library
Designed by THA Architecture in collaboration with Karin Payson A+D, this new library replaces an outdated facility, completed in 1969, with an enhanced neighborhood branch that celebrates the community’s unique history and culture. The 9,000-square-foot library is part of San Francisco’s voter-approved Branch Library Improvement Program, and is one of only eight new facilities from [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: 10 Design, China architecture, Courtyard architecture, Fluid form, Library, Perforated
AIA JURORS’ Comments: The jurors found this design engaging and dynamic. The central vortex was described as creating a focal area for an interesting series of spaces for the community. The building section illustrated for the jurors, the attention for both an urban and internal connectivity. The various adjoining spaces spiral inward in celebrating how [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: AH Asociados, Library, Refurbishment / Extension, Spain, Stair, Stone, Timber
The internal space of this monastic creation turns out to be the prime factor in the intervention since this space is recovered as a staged union of three public rooms, which allow a synthetic knowledge of the constructive process of the monastic complex. To achieve this, the original volumes are recovered by means of new [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Architects Collective, China architecture, Courtyard architecture, Fluid form, Library
The new library is designed to become the center and heart for the local community with a strong relationship to the ocean and the bay. The building is placed in a park setting and aims to be a landmark for locals and visitors and a symbol for the creative and environmentally friendly future of New [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Healthcare Tags: Cladding, Concrete, Fluid form, Library
With the new Medical Library Düsseldorf´s Heinrich-Heine-University receives a pulsating space for studying, reading, learning, inspiration and social encounter. Exactly two years after the ground-breaking ceremony, today the medical department of Heinrich-Heine-University and the University Clinic celebrate grand opening. The design for the 38 meter high structure stacks the various functions on top of one [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Concrete, David Wakely, LEED, Library, Noll & Tam, USA architecture
The innovative features in this new library include a daylight-filled floor plan, a natural ventilation tower, and the use of insulated concrete panels to keep the interior cool in the warm summer months. The library sets a new standard for sustainability in a civic building, and meets Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold [...]
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