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Yale University - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, 1963 designed by SOM
The Beinecke Library contains the principal rare books and literary manuscripts of Yale University, and serves as a center of research for students, faculty, and other scholars, both Yale-affiliated and not. One of the largest buildings in the world devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts, the library has room for 180,000 volumes in its central tower and for over 600,000 volumes in its underground bookstacks. -- architect's web site
A six-story above-ground tower of book stacks is surrounded by a windowless rectangular building with walls made of a translucent Danby marble, which transmit subdued lighting and provide protection from direct light. -- Wikipedia
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| Source: Pedro Pegenaute archdaily.com |
Bajo Martin County, Híjar (Teruel), Spain designed by Magén Arquitectos
Alabaster, which is extracted from quarries in the area, is one of its main resources, dedicated to both the export and cultural promotion, through routes, meeting craft and art activities, organized annually by the Center for Integrated Development of Alabaster.
The group of carved volumes on local materials -stone and alabaster, alludes, in an abstract and geometric way, to stone groups that occur in quarries in the area. The stone surfaces, opaque or translucent, exhibit materials and expressive features of alabaster in relation to the day or night lighting. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Miguel de Guzmán archdaily.com |
Archaeological Museum of Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain, 2011 designed by PardoTapia Arquitectos
The program needs are solved through the use of “articulators” that give an identity to the museum. They become a recognized element that answers to the representative and symbolic needs of the institution. The new exposition rooms are designed as “modern cloisters”. Through the light flux work, the spatial continuity is guaranteed. The alabaster front plates and the trusses limestone recreate a Romanesque space. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Ieva Saudargaitė archdaily.com |
Tahan Villa, Kfour, Lebanon, 2013 designed by BLANKPAGE Architects
It was conceived as an architectural adaptation of the rocks that characterize the surrounding scenery: a massive volume, seemingly floating in the landscape, houses the private living spaces. It is clad with sliding stone panels that echo, in their surface, the texture of the rocks. The final composition – a prismatic stone volume in a landscape topped by a red roof – can be read as a subversion of the traditional Lebanese village house that preserves the fundamental elements present while radically opening up the house towards the view and reinterpreting the surrounding elements of nature (rocks) as dynamic shading devices that let particular sun rays into the private spaces of the house through their seemingly cracked structure. -- ArchDaily
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