Browsing New Libraries in Old Buildings by Title
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2021-06-21Teil eines BuchesRehabilitating a Textile Plant for Barcelona’s Les Corts Neighbourhood Library The Montserrat Abelló library is the most recent public library to be opened in the city of Barcelona. The library occupies a former textile plant built in 1924. The project gives new life to a symbolic building in the ...
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2021-06-21Teil eines BuchesRepurposing a Grocery Store for the Joutsa Public Library in Finland In 2004, the new Joutsa Public Library moved into a renovated former grocery store. Everyone benefitted. The library found a perfect location in the middle of the municipal service centre, which was spared one more sad, ...
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2021-06-21Teil eines BuchesReviving the Hexagon for the University Library on the Luminy Campus of Aix- Marseille University The Hexagone Bibliothèque Universitaire de Sciences de Luminy, Aix-Marseille Université / Hexagon University Library at the Luminy campus of the Aix-Marseille University is located near the entrance to the Calanques ...
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2021-06-21Teil eines BuchesSustainability and Reusing Buildings for Libraries: A Review of Selected Documents The reuse of old buildings for new libraries has gained currency within the Library and Information Science (LIS) profession and has informed sustainability initiatives. Adaptive reuse benefits the environment by conserving ...
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2021-06-21Teil eines BuchesThe American University of Paris Library in the Student Life and Learning Commons The American University of Paris (AUP) is a private liberal arts institution with an urban campus in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. AUP had been searching for some time for an appropriate building to house its library ...
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2021-06-21Teil eines BuchesThe Conversion of a Science Institute to a Faculty Library in Ghent, Belgium The Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte/Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Universiteit Gent/Ghent University held 50 different library collections, containing 670,000 books, which were scattered over 222 different locations ...
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2021-06-21Teil eines BuchesThe Mössingen Library Emerges from the Pausa Tonnenhalle in Germany A barrel hall, designed in 1950/51 by the architect Manfred Lehmbruck as a textile printing hall for the Pausa company and extended in 1962 into a larger industrial complex was listed as a historical monument after the ...
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2021-06-21Teil eines BuchesThe Reuse of Buildings: Libraries Behaving Sustainably The chapter takes a broad overview starting from the premise that reuse of buildings has obvious benefits in terms of recycling materials and retaining the embodied energy contained within the structure. It focuses on ...
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2021-06-21Teil eines BuchesTransforming a Match Factory into the American Philatelic Research Library in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania The American Philatelic Research Library, one of the largest libraries in the world specializing in stamp collecting and postal history, opened its new library in 2016. The library attracts researchers from around the ...
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2021-06-21Teil eines BuchesUsing Historic Buildings to House New Libraries: Prerequisites and Conditions for Successful Revival This chapter discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the rehabilitation of historic buildings for library use. The architectural characteristics of different types of historic buildings are examined to ascertain ...
