Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Mexico City
CONTEMPORARY – 2006 – MEXICO CITY, MEXICO Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Mexico City The megabiblioteca’s floating stacks – Kalach’s suspended steel shelves […]
CONTEMPORARY – 2006 – MEXICO CITY, MEXICO Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Mexico City The megabiblioteca’s floating stacks – Kalach’s suspended steel shelves […]
CONTEMPORARY – 2017 – TIANJIN, CHINA Tianjin Binhai Library, China The Eye of Binhai – MVRDV’s terraced book-canyon around a
ROMANTIC ARCADE – 1843 – NANTES, FRANCE Passage Pommeraye, Nantes The three-tiered stair of commerce – France’s most theatrical arcade,
NEOCLASSICAL ARCADE – 1847 – BRUSSELS, BELGIUM Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, Brussels Europe’s first grand glazed gallery – omnia omnibus over
THEATRE-BOOKSHOP – 1919/2000 – BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA El Ateneo Grand Splendid, Buenos Aires The world’s most beautiful bookshop – a
NEO-GOTHIC BOOKSHOP – 1906 – PORTO, PORTUGAL Livraria Lello, Porto The crimson staircase of book-pilgrims – 1906’s neo-Gothic shop whose
Shakespeare and Company, Rue de la Bûcherie, Paris. © Luigi De Marchi / Cultural Heritage Online. LITERARY BOOKSHOP – 1951
VICTORIAN ARCADE – 1893 – MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA Block Arcade, Melbourne Marvellous Melbourne’s mosaic parade – the L-shaped arcade where doing
Photo: Wikimedia Commons GUSTAVIAN COURT THEATRE – 1766 – DROTTNINGHOLM, SWEDEN Drottningholm Court Theatre, Stockholm The theatre where the 18th
HISTORICIST – 1870 – VIENNA, AUSTRIA Musikverein, Vienna The Golden Hall of the New Year – acoustics’ world standard under