Wednesday, June 26, 2013

3 Libraries

Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (BRBL) was a 1963 gift of the Beinecke family. The building was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Gordon Bunshaft of the firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill and is the largest building in the world reserved exclusively for the preservation of rare books and manuscripts.








The Phillips Exeter Academy Library

The Phillips Exeter Academy Library in Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S., with 160,000 volumes on nine levels and a shelf capacity of 250,000 volumes, is the largest secondary school library in the world. When it became clear in the 1950s that the library had outgrown its existing building, the school initially hired an architect who proposed a traditional design for the new building. Deciding instead to construct a library with a contemporary design, the school gave the commission to Louis Kahn in 1965.







Tama Art University Library

Toyo Ito & Associates





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