Building on the phenomenal success of the Central Branch of the Seattle Public Library and the recent news that they will design the Qatar National Library Rem Koolhaas and his team at OMA now set their sites on the BMVR (Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale) Library in northern France. Shaped as an “X”, with each of the four wings facing toward one of the city's four landmarks. The library’s 150,000 volumes will be distributed to one of the wings: arts to the northeast, science and technology to the northwest, humanities to the southeast, and literature to the southwest. “This library is a symbol of the lateral...
