MASTERPIECES

LIBRARY ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN MASTERPIECES

MANUELA ROTH LIBRARY ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN

BRAUN? 6 PREFACE. BOX ARCHITECTURE GABELE & RAUFER ARCHITEKTEN 62 Ballyroan Library 112 Old Court Library A & F ARCHITECTS / DIAV Dublin I Ireland Donaueschingen | Germany 10 Chilean National Library Founders Hall Santiago | Chile BRUNO FIORETTI MARQUEZ ARCHITEKTEN PHILIPPE GAZEAU 66 Library Köpenick 116 Romain Rolland Library AAg LOEBNER SCHÄFER WEBER Berlin | Germany Romainville | France 14 Restructuring of the Public Library Heidelberg | Germany DOMINIQUE COULON ET A SSO CIÉS GERBER ARCHITEKTEN 70 Media Library 120 King Fahad National Library ABIRO / NENA GABROVEC, ARNE VEH- Anzin I France Riyadh | Saudi Arabia OVAR, KAJA LIPNIK VEHOVAR 18 Grosuplje Public Library DELUGAN MEISSL GABRIELE GLÖCKLER Grosuplje | Slovenia ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS 124 German National Library in Leipzig Extension 74 FH Campus Library Vienna Leipzig I Germany ACOCK A SSOCIATES ARCHITECTS Vienna | Austria 24 Thompson Library Renovation PETER GLUCK AND PARTNERS Columbus (OH) | USA DEMMELUNDHADLER 128 Scholar’s Library 78 Bad Vilbel City Library Olive Bridge (NY) | USA ALA ARCHITECTS Bad Vilbel | Germany 30 Helsinki Central Library GMP ARCHITEKTEN - DU-RES SET- LYON ARCHITECTS 82 Library and Theater 132 Regional Church Archives ol the Lutheran ANTTINEN OIVA ARCHITECTS Lons-le-Saunier | France Church in Bavaria 34 Helsinki University Main Library Nuremberg | Germany Helsinki | Finland MAX DUDLER 86 Folkwang Library FERDINAND HEIDE ARCHITEKT MEN DURI ARQUINT ARCHITEKTEN Essen-Werden | Germany 136 New Lecture Hall and Media Center 38 Library Chasa Plaz Darmstadt | Germany Ardez | Switzerland 90 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Center Berlin | Germany HELEN&HARD ARX PORTUGAL AROUITECTOS 140 Vennesla Library and Culture House 42 ilhavo City Library FOSTER + PARTNERS Vennesla | Norway llhavo | Portugal 94 Library for the Faculty of Philology Berlin | Germany HS99 ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS 144 CINiBA, The Scientific Information Center 46 David Wilson Library FOUGERON ARCHITECTURE and Academic Library Leicester | United Kingdom 98 Ingleside Branch Library Katowice | Poland San Francisco (CA) | USA ATELIER 30 ARCHITEKTEN IMB ARQUITECTOS 50 Fulda University and State Library FRANKE 148 The Regional Library of Bizkaia Fulda | Germany ARCHITEKTUR | INNENARCHITEKTUR Bilbao | Spain 104 Interior Design of the Library of the Cologne BAUM-KAPPLER ARCHITEKTEN Higher Regional Court JAAM SOCIEDAD DE ARQUITECTURA 54 Nuremberg City Library Cologne I Germany 152 Carlos Santamaria Center Nuremberg | Germany San Sebastian | Spain MASSIMILIANO AND DORIANA FUKSAS BOB361 ARCHITECTS 108 New National Archives of France JAHN 58 Library in Dendermonde Paris | France 156 Joe and Rika Mansueto Library Dendermonde | Belgium Chicago (IL) I USA JKMM ARCHITECTS NHDM ÁLVARO SIZA 160 Seinäjoki City Library 206 Nam June Paik Library 254 Viana do Castelo Library Seinäjoki | Finland Yongin | Korea Viana do Castelo | Portugal

KANNENBERG & KANNENBERG O FFICE DA STUDIO 8 1/2 ARCHITEKTEN UND INGENIEURE 210 Fleet Library at the RISD 2 58 I CON I Temporary Library 166 Library in a Former Merchant’s Providence (Rl) | USA Plovdiv I Bulgaria Manufacturing Complex Wittstock/Dosse | Germany PBO ARCHITECTURE BUREAU IRA KOERS & 214 Media Library STUDIO ROELOF MULDER KSP JÜRGEN ENGEL ARCHITEKTEN Verneuil-sur-Seine | France 262 University Library of the University of 170 National Library of China Amsterdam Beijing | China TIM POHL ARCHITEKT Amsterdam | The Netherlands 218 Central Library LAHDELM A & MAHLAMÄKI Hamburg | Germany TANK ARCHITECTES 174 Lohja Main Library 266 Library in Proville Lohja | Finland PETER PRETTERHOFER SONJA SIMBENI Proville I France 222 Library of the TU Graz LI XIAODONG / ATELIER Graz | Austria CARLOS MEZA, ALEJANDRO PIÑOL, 178 LiYuan-Library GERMÁN RAMÍREZ, M IGUEL TORRES Beijing | China PROJEKTIL ARCHITEKTI 270 Villanueva Public Library " " 'i National Technical Library Villanueva CaSariaré I Colombia LINIE ZW EI INNENARCHITEKTUR Prague | Czech Republic GRAFIKDESIGN TOYO ITO & ASSOCIATES 182 Robi Rolling Library RDH ARCHITECTS 274 Tama Art University Library Heilbronn | Germany 230 Bloor / Gladstone Branch Library Hachioji City, Tokyo | Japan Toronto | Canada LIQUID FRONTIERS WILFORD SCHUPP ARCHITEKTEN 186 The Special Library RH+ ARCHITECTURE 280 Library and Conference Center, Vienna | Austria 234 University Library Peace Palace Cayenne | French Guiana The Hague | The Netherlands MARBLE FAIRBANKS 190 Glen Oaks Branch Library R IEH LE + ASSOZIIERTE EBERHARD WIMMER ARCHITEKTEN Glen Oaks (NY) | USA 238 Library with School Media Center 286 Storage Library Stiftung Preußischer Dusslingen | Germany Kulturbesitz Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin MAZZANTI & ARQUITECTOS S.A. Berlin | Germany 194 España Library SAMOO ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS Medellin | Colombia 242 National Library of Sejong PROJEKTPARTNERSCHAFT WRONNA Sejong-si | Korea FELDHUSEN FLECKENSTEIN RODRIGO MINDLIN LOEB ARQUITETURA 290 Library in Luckenwalde + EDUARDO DE ALMEIDA ARQUITETOS SANAA Luckenwalde | Germany ASSOCIADOS 246 Rolex Learning Center 198 Brasiliana Library Lausanne | Switzerland EUN YOUNG Yl Säo Paulo | Brazil 294 Stuttgart City Library SCHMIDT HAMMER LASSEN ARCHITECTS Stuttgart | Germany MVRDV 250 University of Aberdeen New Library 202 Book Mountain and Library Quarter Aberdeen | United Kingdom ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS Spijkenisse | The Netherlands 298 Library & Learning Center - University of Economics Vienna Vienna | Austria ■ J:i=lsfiTH=P

Contemporary library architecture must always Libraries have been transformed from quiet, intro­ to the height of four floors with a gallery situated above measure up to new challenges. The continuously verted buildings into information providers for the pro­ and topped by a glass ceiling. The gallery also serves increasing digitalization of our daily lives and the sup­ motion of communication. They have become venues as a reading hall and light source for the 'heart'. ply of information via the Internet must be taken into of important social interactions where users contact The “Rolex Learning Center" in Lausanne by Japanese account and made available to library visitors. Four each other, exchange information, and work together. architects Sanaa uses yet a different concept. The years after the first edition of this book, the topic Contemporary architecture must respond to the fact architects understand the library, which is part of the has lost none of its fascination. New libraries that almost all visitors process the information they Technical University, figuratively as a kind of ‘land­ continue to be opened, be it in new buildings or in receive on their laptops as current and future libraries scape of education’. The user becomes a traveler, conversions of existing buildings. The most impressive act as hybrid places of learning. For example, the moving through an architectural landscape with slight examples of the first edition of this book continue architects of baum-kappler created a place for life­ elevations, hills, and valleys. A 'free space’ has been to be featured in this updated edition, while new long learning in Nuremberg. With a history spanning created, which provides the necessary latitude for highlights in the art of building and library technology more than six centuries, the former city library is learning. One can wander freely around spaces that have been added. one of the oldest of its kind in the German-speaking are not separated by partitions. There are no pre­ Libraries were formerly simply seen as storehouses of realm. It was renovated and enhanced by a new build­ scribed paths. Along the way one can encounter book knowledge. They were places tor keeping and collect­ ing section to create a central hub In keeping with shelves, wuikploccs, a cafe, and plenty of sooting ing books in a building with a prestigious appearance. the tradition of balancing tradition and future. The possibilities. Thoughts are permitted to ramble. The During the last century, however, the ever-growing heart of this design is the learning center that enjoys architecture is on the move and seeks to motivate the scope of the collections necessitated larger, connected daylight illumination and opens up towards the city. visitor to learn about communication and cooperation. stack areas to most efficiently store the many books. The new building was carefully combined with the two Simultaneously, at the beginning of the new millen­ old building sections to create a new identity-shaping This second edition of Masterpieces: Library Archi­ nium, everyone suddenly had access to information venue for the city. tecture + Design presents a collection of contempo­ from everywhere. The fastest way to find out about A totally different picture is presented by the new city rary buildings from around the world that show that the latest developments is online, and books are being library of Stuttgart. An almost square monolith of con­ venues for the conglomeration of knowledge and digitalized and presented on the Internet. Nevertheless, crete and glass bricks rises in a newly created city dis­ information are still in demand and very modern. there remains great demand for books and libraries trict. The façade is strictly structured. The square grid These sites of concentration and information will continue to be built, commissioned by public as well as determines the main shapes and creates a basic order continue to be constructed, regardless of whether the institutional sponsors. The demands for library projects inside and out. At the center of the building lies the so- visitors use the old-school analog book or the latest are as varied as the results depicted in this book. called 'heart' of the library. The central space extends digital technology.

A & F ARCHITECTS, www.diav.cl LIGHTING: DIAV Client: National Library, Completion: 2009, G ross floor area: 400 rrv\ Photos: Eduardo Cifuentes.

Left: Elevated and lit volume. | Right: Illumination plan.

After winning the open competition, the reading silk-screened glass with texts containing the names room and exhibition spaces were realized in the of the main Chilean writers. It is illuminated with cold Founders Lounge of the National Library - the main white light, providing the contrast of contemporary space in this national heritage building. The design intervention with the classical architecture of the also involves a new lighting concept. The architects room, whose warm white lighting highlights the most proposed a glazed volume elevated over the ground important architectural elements such as arches, level, which contrasts and highlights the classical pillars and the dome. architecture context. This volume is structured by a