Birmingham’s New Library

[ad_1] By Team IAnD Photography: Courtesy Mecanoo Architecten . Whoever said that a library is a boring silent reading room? The new library at Birmingham, which opens its doors to the public tomorrow, is a beautiful building that integrates the culturally and architecturally rich ethos of Birmingham city... Birmingham’s new library is a transparent glass building. Nestled between the Baskerville House, a limestone building from 1938 and the REP Theatre, an optimistic concrete building from 1971, its metal filigree façade of interlocking circles, meaningfully transforms Centenary Square, the largest public square in the heart of the city into three distinct […]