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Strahov Library in Prague, Czech Republic. Established in 1679, the Strahov Monastery Library is regarded as one of the best-preserved historical libraries with its thousands of books dating all ...
It’s one of 18 new architecture projects that Architectural Digest has named the most spectacular of the year through its annual “Works of Wonder” or “WOW” list in the February issue ...
The building was designed by architects J. Campbell and G. E. Gosling, for Scott McClelland and Company, at a cost of Rs. 125,000. David Sassoon donated Rs. 60,000, while the rest of the cost was borne by the Government of Bombay Presidency. [4]
Architectural Digest (stylized in all caps) is an American monthly magazine founded in 1920. [2] Its principal subjects are interior design and landscaping, rather than pure external architecture . The magazine is published by Condé Nast , which also publishes international editions of Architectural Digest in China, France, Germany, India ...
At 28 stories and 286 feet 4 + 1 ⁄ 8 inches (roughly 88 m) tall, it is the third-tallest library in the world after the National Library of Indonesia in Jakarta at 414 feet (126 m) and Shanghai Library in China at 348 feet (106 m). Measuring taller purely by height, the libraries in Jakarta and Shanghai both only have 24 floors.
These libraries will inspire all the book lovers out there to grab a book and hop on the next plane to visit one of these amazing locations.
University of California Libraries United States: Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz: 40.8 million Not free: restricted to students, faculty or visitors who buy a membership [23] US$295 million [23] 2,000+ [23] University of Illinois Library United States
Avery Library's collection in architecture literature is among the largest in the world and includes such highlights as the first Western printed book on architecture, De re aedificatoria (1485), by Leone Battista Alberti; Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499); works by Giovanni Battista Piranesi; and classics of modernism by Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, with the rarest ...