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Poplar Creek Public Library

fabiano — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:01:38 +0000

A former library located in Streamwood, IL, has undergone a beautiful transformation in 2009 by the hands of Frye Gillan Molinaro Architects. Much of the original structure of the building was maintained and the new project brought even more life to the library.

The combination of external exposed concrete and glass contrasting with an industrial-style interior, with apparent pipes and ceiling height in most of the building, as well as the white walls with some mixed colors bring happiness into the library. Besides the aesthetic issue, the Poplar Creek is a great example of using energy efficiency and sustainable construction.

Photography: Lambros Photography

The Poplar Creek public library gave all the team members the opportunity to comprehensively analyze the environmental effect of expanding the existing facility. It became all too clear that this was a project that should not only look towards the future but utilize the most current ideas in building technologies.

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Beautiful and Functional Birkenhead Library via Archoffice

fabiano — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:01:42 +0000

This kind of materials combination is often a great choice and almost always delivers beautiful result: wood, bricks and glass. Of course that the architects talent has a considerable part on the projects result, but here we have nothing to say. Archoffice did a great job on the Birkenhead Library and Civic Centre, at New Zealand.

The transparency is another element that was very wisely explored in this building. The intention was to allow natural light to come inside all rooms, and they did that by using glass in all the facades and also having a skylight in the center of the library. At the indoors we notice the attention with details common at the projects from Archoffice, using textures, few colors and vertical elements that contrasts with the horizontal line of the building. A sensational place for the piece it provides for a good reading and for the great architectural elements.

Notions of canopy, transparency, solid, void & pattern are articulated in the design, & incorporate environmentally sustainable design principles giving substantial energy savings for cost in use, recyclable materials, night purging in summer and natural rather than artificial light.

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Architecture for the Community at the Surry Hills Library

fabiano — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:03:11 +0000

This library, located in Surry Hills, Australia, shows how important it is to have the participation of those who will use the space after the construction of a project. The architects from the FJMT office decided that for this project, the community would be participating in several decisions, which resulted in a gorgeous and totally usable building.

The first idea was that community would like to have something beyond a simple library. The construction should be a place where everyone could share some activity. So they managed to host a library, a community center and even a child care for the neighborhood's children, showing the importance of having activities like these in one place.

And to complete, the architects Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp put a lot of wisdom in certain choices, such as the use of transparency as a way of inviting the public into the building just as enabling a new way of viewing the neighborhood to those inside. The concern about he materials, to maintain an internal cooling of all spaces make this project a great inspiration to all of us who like architecture.

The Centre has been designed to achieve excellence in sustainable design and set new high standards in environmental performance for multi-purpose public buildings. [It] will be a starting point for the development of a green rating system for public buildings… [and] an innovative example of design and sustainable design possibilities. — Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP

This innovative new building provides specific services tailored to community needs and includes an integrated local library, community centre and child care centre. - FJMT

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Books and great architecture in one place: Livraria da Vila

fabiano — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:17:47 +0000

If you're one of those who loves architecture and at the same time can't live without reading a good book, you should know the Livraria da Vila. Located at São Paulo, and designed by Isay Weinfeld, this fantastic bookstore puts good taste and comfort to make reading more enjoyable.

The books bring the colors to the walls and fun to each space, whether in a corner and even on the very entrance of the building, like a secret-lab! All internal objects, the bright yellow of the stairs and the floor reserved only for children are other features that Weinfeld thought to make this place very exciting.

Chek it ou the Isay Weinfeld's bluiding at isayweinfeld.com.

Livraria da Vila 25 years of life in April 2010. And his story is so cool that deserves to be compared to that of a human being. Great boldness or claim? Let's try to understand. Since its birth, received the best education possible. Treated by parents, family and friendswith a lot affection, she lived up to expectations and became the darling all. Charming, friendly, responsive and democratic. The village was adopted by those who shared vision of library as a meeting place, a place to see people, buy books, hang out, drink coffee, listen to stories.