Library of the 2030’s

[ad_1] Photography: Chevalier Morales Architectes;courtesy v2com . The new Bibliothèque Saul-Bellow in Montreal is an attractive, luminous 21st century building that stimulates conversation and aims at a LEED certification… Libraries are no longer the pin-drop silent, overly disciplinarian spaces they used to be. A library is a revered institution but alongside it also builds interaction, promotes knowledge sharing and fosters intellectual debate.   .. Designed by architects Stephan Chevalier and Sergio Morales of Chevalier Morales Architectes, the 1974 edifice is remodeled on imaging what the library and its neighbourhood could become, in 20 years, if the densification, greening and transportation improvement principles mentioned in […]