Topography of curved bookshelves!

[ad_1] Compiled by Team IAnD Photography: Ossip van Duivenbode; courtesy MVRDV Read Time: 2 mins  Tianjin Binhai Library by MVRDV ©Ossip van Duivenbode   MVRDV in collaboration with local architects TUPDI has completed the Tianjin Binhai Library, a 33,700 sq. m. cultural centre in China, featuring a luminous spherical auditorium around which floor-to-ceiling bookcases cascade… The undulating bookshelf is the building’s main spatial device. The building’s mass extrudes upwards from the site and is ‘punctured’ by a spherical auditorium in the centre. Bookshelves are arrayed on either side of the sphere and act as everything from stairs to seating, even continuing […]