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The Central Library, originally the Ingersoll Memorial Library, is the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn, New York City. Located on Grand Army Plaza , at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway , it contains over 1.7 million materials in its collection and has a million annual visitors.
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (commonly known as the Main Branch, the 42nd Street Library, or just the New York Public Library[ b]) is the flagship building in the New York Public Library system in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The branch, one of four research libraries in the library system, contains nine ...
Click on "Design of the Library" to see links to a Kahn Reference Guide, Floor Schematics, etc. Figure 6 of an academic paper called "The Tectonic Integration of Louis I. Kahn′s Exeter Library" provides a helpful exploded view drawing of the library's constituent parts.
An architectural drawing or architect's drawing is a technical drawing of a building (or building project) that falls within the definition of architecture.Architectural drawings are used by architects and others for a number of purposes: to develop a design idea into a coherent proposal, to communicate ideas and concepts, to convince clients of the merits of a design, to assist a building ...
The Plan of Saint Gall is a medieval architectural drawing of a monastic compound dating from 820–830 AD. [1] It depicts an entire Benedictine monastic compound, including church, houses, stables, kitchens, workshops, brewery, infirmary, and a special building for bloodletting. According to calculations based on the manuscript's tituli the ...
Harold Washington Library Center. / 41.87639°N 87.62806°W / 41.87639; -87.62806. The Harold Washington Library Center is the central library for the Chicago Public Library System. It is located just south of the Loop 'L', at 400 S. State Street in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a full-service library and is ADA compliant.
Peckham Library is a library and community building situated in Peckham in south-east London, United Kingdom. It was designed by Alsop and Störmer , [1] engineered by AKT II and won the Stirling Prize for Architecture in 2000.
View of the Geisel Library at daytime, seen from a path on the terrace level. Geisel Library is the main library building of the University of California, San Diego. It is named in honor of Audrey and Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as children's author Dr. Seuss. The building's distinctive architecture, described as occupying "a fascinating ...