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Bezig met laden... The Design and Construction of the British Librarydoor Colin St. John Wilson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. On a trip to London in 2000 when I popped into the British Library, I picked up this case study of Colin St. John Wilson's design of the British Library at St. Pancras. Having just opened the year before, the library was in that awkward phase, where people were still picking apart the design (a fairly odd design at that, one apparently lacking any sort of focus) and getting used to how it worked; the automated book delivery system was one controversial piece of utility, if memory serves me correctly. The building was hardly the favorite one I visited while on that trip (I really liked the new Jubilee Line stations, of all the new structures built for the new millennium), but it was one that I knew I couldn't fully understand on a short visit. Able to see as much as a non-resident without a library card could, I got a good sense of the project, particularly its complexity. In the book, the architect explains the building satisfactorily, from its (jumbled) form to its spaces (what the design is really about), its systems, and the difficulties the project faced during construction. I only wish more buildings received such careful and thorough treatment in book form. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The British Library at St Pancras, the major public monument built in the United Kingdom in the twentieth century, opened to the public in April 1998. Professor Sir Colin St John Wilson has spent the greater part of his working life on the project from 1962 onwards when various schemes for a building adjacent to the British Museum were proposed, through to the completion phase of the present design. Formerly Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, and the author of two important books on the history and theory of twentieth-century architecture, he is uniquely placed to give both an account of the development of the design concept of the building and to tell the story of its construction.No other project in Britain since the building of St Paul's Cathedral (which also took thirty-six years to reach completion) is comparable in time-scale or the magnitude of controversy surrounding it. This book reveals how Professor Wilson and his team responded to successive changes in the Brief, whilst determinedly maintaining a commitment to the very highest quality in all aspects of a building designed to last 250 years. Illustrated with many original drawings and specially commissioned photographs, it will appeal to anyone interested in modern architecture. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)727.82541The arts Architecture Buildings for educational and research purposes Library buildingsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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