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Reference Room, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
📐: Albert Kahn, 1920
🕊️: "The Arts of Peace" is the name of the mural that has been decorating the Reference Room at the University of Michigan's Graduate Library since its opening in 1920. Together with the matching "Arts of War" at the opposing end of the hall, it is the work of Julius Garibaldi “Gari” Melchers and was originally commissioned for the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building at the 1893 Chicago World Fair.
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After the Fair, the paintings were donated to the university, who displayed them on each side of the stage at the 1870 University Hall (now demolished). During the planning of the new Graduate Library, it was determined that the two murals should be placed on either side of the main reading room and its vaulted ceiling was dimensioned accordingly.
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📷: Fuji X-T20 + XF27mm f/2.8
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Quincentenary Library, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK
📐: Eldred Evans & David Shalev, 1995
🌤️: Another look inside the Jesus College student library, opened in 1995 on the 500th anniversary of the college's foundation. The architects Eldred Evans & David Shalev were keen to provide quality study spaces for students, a feature that until then was missing from the college. A key element of this approach was the careful provision of natural light from a long zenital opening on top of a barrel-vaulted ceiling. This design element is both dictated by sunlight and also recalls the traditional architecture of several Cambridge college libraries.
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Work stations are arranged in a series of alcoves on either side of a large stairway leading down to collections on the lower levels. More workspaces line the mezzanine on the upper level, as well as a series of vaulted window alcoves, each a miniature replica of the main library space.
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Kansalliskirjasto - National Library of Finland, Helsinki
📐: Carl Ludvig Engel, 1844
🏛: The National Library of Finland is only known by this name since 2006. Before that, the grand neoclassical building was the Helsinki University Library and it remains attached to the university to this day. Like many Finnish institutions, its history reflects that of the country itself. The same institution served as legal deposit for three different countries. When it was founded, there was no independent Finland, and no Helsinki either.
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The roots of the National Library (all 20 volumes of it) are in the city of Turku, 170km east of Helsinki, where a Swedish Royal Academy was established in 1640. As such, it collected copies of each title published in Sweden. Shortly after Finland became part of the Russian Empire in 1809, the university and its library moved to the new city of Helsinki, and began dutifully collecting copies of all titles published in Russia. When Finland finally became independent in 1907, the library became the legal deposit for the new country, a role that it still holds today.
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BU Saint-Jérôme, Marseille, France
📐: René Egger, 1966
🧮: In the decade that followed the end of WWII in the South of France, one of the reconstruction priorities concerned education facilities, some of which had been demolished during the war and which were generally unfit to meet the needs of a rapidly growing student population. Many of these projects were led by the Marseille-born architect René Egger.
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Faced with the enormity of the task and conscious of limited public budgets, Egger devised modular construction techniques that allowed him to build quickly and economically. 150 schools were built using his system, to be added to the 200 or so other projects he was involved in, among which are entire university campuses.
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Built for the faculty of sciences north of the city centre, the Saint-Jérôme campus includes auditoriums, research facilities, student housings and cafeterias in a series of interconnected towers and enclosed courtyards. Facades are made of mass-produced aluminum elements in which coloured glass panes are inserted, following Egger's prefabrication model.
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The library is treated differently, a two-storey concrete square pavilion with brise-soleil awnings. The inside spaces are organized around a large atrium, where a double flight of stairs leads to the mezzanine level. Interior partitions are made of glass panes, supported by slender timber beams.
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BCU Internef, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
📐: Brugger, Catella, Hauenstein, 1978
🔍: The Humanities 1 building (BFSH 1, later renamed Internef) was the third to be built on the new Dorigny campus between 1973 and 1977. Its architects Frédéric Brugger with Edouard Catella and Erich Hauenstein were following the campus master plan established in 1967 by Guido Cocchi, which mandated a coherent grid for dimensioning spaces and floor heights, and the use of glass and anodized aluminum for facades.
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The main body of the building follows these indications to the letter, organized as two rectangular towers of 5 and 6 storeys for faculty offices fronted to the west by two lower two-storey pavilions, one for classrooms and the other for the library, separated by a courtyard leading to the partly covered terraced entrance. On the eastern side are a cluster of 5 hexagonal auditoriums of varying sizes, for which the architects opted to veer away from the material mandate and instead clad them in orange ceramic tiles.
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Today serving the Law and Economics faculties, the library is a square with a square atrium in its centre, topped by a lantern. The lower floor is a large continuous space filled by orange metallic shelves and long work tables. The mezzanine floor is divided between more open space and closed offices. Inside one of these enclosed sections is a special collection on forensics, the former library of the Vaud Cantonal Police founded in 1909 by Rodolphe Archibald Reiss. Often dubbed the "Swiss Sherlock Holmes", Reiss pioneered many of the forensic techniques used by crime investigators in the 20th century and often cited the famous fictional detective as a direct source of inspiration. In fact, the very first document he added to the police library was a complete collection of Conan Doyle's stories.
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Sheridan College Library Learning Commons, Trafalgar Campus, Oakville, ON, Canada
📐: Marani, Rounthwaite & Dick, 1970
📏: CS&P Architects, 2008
🫯: Founded in 1967, Sheridan College now offers more than 250 programs to 23,000 students every year. It is still most widely known for its animation program. Many college alumni now work for major animation studios such as Disney, Pixar or DreamWorks.
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In its first incarnation as the School of Graphic Design, the college was located in the former Brampton High School until 1970, when it moved to its Trafalgar Campus in Oakville. That was the historic location of a former village named after British playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, which the college adopted as its own.
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The college's Visual Arts wing in Oakville was built by Marani, Rounthwaite & Dick (now @rdharch), who envisioned the Trafalgar Road campus as a radiating cluster of buildings, only some of which ended up being built. Conceived as modular studio spaces, the original halls have few dividing walls and high industrial ceilings, some pierced by pyramidal skylights. In 2008, this part of the campus was transformed into the Library Learning Commons by CS&P Architects.
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Seeley Historical Library, Cambridge, UK
📐: James Stirling, 1968
🧱: The History Faculty building was part of the second wave of construction on Cambridge University's Sidgwick Site, a former cricket grounds dedicated to the university's postwar expansion. Designed by modernist architect James Stirling and completed in 1968, i is composed of two perpendicular seven-story wings for faculty offices and classrooms, with the library between them.
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With their use of simple construction materials (concrete, brick and industrial glazing) and expressive forms, Stirling's designs veer away from the pure forms of International Style Modernism towards its later variants and are real wonders of details and surprises.
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Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Site de Tolbiac François-Mitterand, Paris, France
📐: Dominique Perrault, 1996-1998
📖: Perrault’s iconic design for the Tolbiac building of the National Library of France is known for its four towers shaped like open books. Each bears the name of a section of the library's collections: Tour des Lois, Tour des Lettres, Tour des Nombres, Tour des Temps.
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In the rectangle delimited by the angled towers is a sunken garden, surrounded by a gallery. All of the library's publicly available spaces are underground but open to the sunken garden, which itself is an unexpected oasis of quiet in the bustling metropolis.
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📷: Canon 5D Mk.II + 24-105mm f/4L
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Þjóðarbókhlaðan, National and University Library of Iceland, Reykjavík
📐: Manfreð Vilhjálmsson & Þorvaldur S. Þorvaldsson, 1994
🛢: In 1947, a committee was established to evaluate how best to accommodate the growth of the library of the University of Iceland and the National Library, both in need of more storage space. It was determined that merging the two would be more efficient and that a new building was required to host both collections. Initially, the new library was set to open in 1974, to commemorate the 1100th anniversary of the island’s settlement.
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Fate decided otherwise. The oil crisis of 1973 dealt a significant blow to state finances and scrapped most of the anniversary plans. Work on the library finally started in 1978 but funds ran out again in 1983 and for a decade, the building sat out empty and unfinished before finally opening in 1994. That year also marked the 50th anniversary of the Republic of Iceland, and thus the library was inaugurated as part of an anniversary celebration after all.
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Bibliothèque Gabrielle Roy, Québec QC
📐: Gauthier, Guité, Roy, 1983
📏: Saucier+Perrotte & GLCRM, 2023 transformation
✨: The central library of Quebec City was the first to benefit from a provincial subsidy covering 50% of construction costs under the "Plan Vaugeois". This 1980s initiative aimed to help francophone Quebec libraries catch up to the rest of the world after a century of stifled growth imposed by the Catholic clergy and complicit government officials.
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The original architects were Quebec modernism royalty Paul Gauthier, Gilles Guité and Jean-Marie Roy. Inspired by Raymond Moriyama's 1977 Metropolitan Toronto Library, the Quebec library likewise was organized around a generous indoor atrium with rounded corners lined with planters, and a gurgling fountain. Its exterior, also clad in brick, was less friendly to its surroundings, with precious few windows except on the top floor.
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This changed radically in 2023, when the library reopened after an extensive transformation by @saucierperrotte and @glcrm.architectes. Only the structure of the original library was maintained, its brick walls replaced by translucent glass panes that turn the building into an illuminated lantern at night. The central atrium is still the defining feature of the library. In its midst is a large mobile of 50,000 golden metal strips: this artwork by Micheline Beauchemin is called Il semble y avoir comme une pluie d'or.
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La Filanda, Mendrisio, Switzerland
📐: Ivano Gianola, 1988
📏: Anne-France Aguet, 2018 library transformation
🧵: In the 19th century, the Mendrisiotto region of Ticino was a notable silk producing region, thanks to a climate conducive to the culture of mulberry vines for feeding silkworms. At the height of this activity, the valley had up to 32 silk spinning mills. Among them was the Torriani-Bolzani mill, which operated from 1873 until 1931. Later used for housing and small scale manufacturing, the site was eventually closed and slated for demolition in 1982. Local investors however purchased the building and tasked architect Ivano Gianola to transform it into a housing and shopping development
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Gianola kept the original envelope of the former spinning mill and converted most of it into apartments. At the back was a new build for the Innovazione (later Manor) department store. Opened in 1988, it offered four storeys of retail space and covered parking. When Manor closed the location in 2008, the future of the Filanda was again in jeopardy. That same year, the Ticino government also announced it would close the Mendrisio branch of the cantonal library. Alarmed that the town would lose its only public library, a group of concerned citizens succeeded in halting the decision and find sponsors to develop a new library and cultural centre.
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Opened in 2018, the new library is named La Filanda after the industrial heritage of the site. It was designed by Mendrisio architect and sculptor Anne-France Aguet, who managed the hard task of converting the somewhat cavernous retail surfaces into a welcoming space for library patrons of all ages.
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Médiathèque Chalucet, Toulon, France
📐: Corinne Vezzoni et Associés, 2020
🗺️: The map adorning the central atrium of the new Toulon central public library depicts the city near the end of the 17th century. The building highlighted in red at the top of the map, just north of the Vauban fortifications, is the former Charité hospital. Upon its establishment in 1700 by Armand-Louis Bonnin de Chalucet, Bishop of Toulon, it was a hospice for the poor. In the wake of the city's expansion under Napoleon, it was expanded into Hôpital Chalucet in 1854. Partially demolished by Allied bombing in 1944, the hospital continued operations until a new site was built in 1989.
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After several decades of neglect, the site of the former hospital was eventually revitalized by Corinne Vezzoni. The new library combines what is left of the hospice, a combination of buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries, and a new wing that replaced the portion that was lost during the war. This new built was designed as a stylistic transition between the Neoclassical facade of the hospital chapel, and the contemporary edifices built to the north of the site.
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