Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Completed in 2007, the new library in the city of Chongqing, a huge city in China, with nearly 30 million inhabitants and more than 3000 years of history, it was designed by Perkins Eastman, with over 50,000 square meters construction.
It was designed to become a civic and cultural icon, so this beautiful building goes beyond the notion that a library is simply a place full of books and therefore has a concert hall, space for art galleries, conference facilities, restaurant and a hotel for visitors.
The building is almost completely covered in glass, to ensure good ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
The Alexandrina Library is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. It was built in commemoration of the ancient Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, in an attempt to revive something of the brilliance that this earlier center of study and erudition represented.
In 1987 came out an ambitious cultural project: to build a new library, the Alexandrina Library, this happened 1600 years after the disappearance of these large collections of knowledge. To carry out such a project joined the efforts of various European countries, economic, and ...
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