A Colosseum of Books: Emphasizing the Pleasure of Reading
The complete freedom offered to the visitors reflect how the designing team wanted to emphasize that reading is liberating, which is one of the important themes of the space.
The complete freedom offered to the visitors reflect how the designing team wanted to emphasize that reading is liberating, which is one of the important themes of the space.
The firm took advantage of the roof garden location, which is quite far from the madding crowd of Shanghai busy life, to create a serene and simple space with the peaceful atmosphere on the top of the building.
The main idea behind the construction was to establish a building that is hybrid, instead of pure, and compromising, instead of clean.
Inside the building envelope, enclosure spaces are arranged to represent a series of identifiable ‘masses’ that generates a network of fluid and linked interstitial ‘cavities’ housing the principal public spaces under the slanted roof surfaces.
The library functions as a landmark for the local community as well as a gateway into San Antonio for those who travel into town via Highway 87.
The first phase of this project was to renovate an early 19th-century building which was badly damaged during the liberation of Normandy in 1942.
The building itself was previously known as an old town hall on the Place de l’Europe, connected to the St. Melaine church and parish house which was built in the early 19th century by a local architect named Arthur Regnault.
The new site has panoramic views of the garden which can be seen from the new terrace outside the exhibition gallery.
The West Hollywood Automated Parking Garage was built in order to solve the problem of the required and necessary vehicle parking connected to the city hall.
The light concept of Hotel Gault can be seen from the skylight on this hotel roof. The clear glass is used to let the natural light comes through.
The landscape view is created well by the bricks on the building. Besides the building design, Drost + van Veen also built the best facilities for every apartment.