The Library Buildings Boom

LA Times Story on the new Central Library and the name that is stiring up some Controversy.


The Story from Seattle is a bit different, it mostly focuses on the team designing the new Central Library. The library is busy evolving even before it gets built.


Hopefully to avoid The Mess in Paris. The new National Library which has \”stupendously impractical architecture\”, a large stairway that is slippery in the rain and open to the winds, awkwardly structured spaces for both researchers and staff, impractically situated toilets and so on.