Libraries
With a close look at the latest international new buildings dedicated to the arts, Floornature offers an in-depth exploration of the best solutions for pavilions, theatres, libraries and arts centres over recent years. A detailed visual exploration for enthusiasts and experts of the sector, for a better understanding of the whole and of the details hidden behind great projects that have made their mark on architecture and contemporary design.
Curated by Mara Corradi
RECENT PROJECTS

03-02-2005
Turin Civic Library
Mario Bellini
It will be opened in 2009, and it will cost 220 million euros: Turin's new civic library could...

18-01-2005
Can Ginestar Public Library
Sant Just Desvern, Barcelona
2000-2003
The contrasting yellow plaster and long blue glass façades dominate the hill on which the...

29-10-2004
Margency
Multimedia complex
Bical, Martinelli and Courcier
A new Private Lycée in lovely Notre-Dame-de-Bury park in Margency, France designed by architects...

01-10-2004
Mario Botta, Querini Stampalia Foundation
Mario Botta's restoration, 2003
Palazzo Querini Stampalia is one of Venice's most interesting artistic complexes, located in...

01-07-2004
French National Library, Paris
On July 14, 1988 President Mitterand of the French Republic announced that he intended to build the...

10-06-2004
Peckham Library
Alsop & Stormer
Peckham Library, in southwest London, cost 4.5 million pounds sterling and covers a surface area of...