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...
Rem Koolhass Goes Back to the Library
Seattle Central Library. Photo Hoffman ConstructionHe's back! Hoping to build on the tremendous success of the Seattle Central Library, Rem Koolhaas and the OMA team are back. This time they're in Qatar to build the National Library.As ArchDaily said in they're look at the Seattle Central library project:The Seattle Central Library redefines the library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but as an information store where all potent forms of media—new and old—are presented equally and legibly. In an age where information can be accessed anywhere, it is the simultaneity of all media and, more importantly,...