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New libraries in old buildings [Recurs electrònic] : creative reuse / edited by Petra Hauke, Karen Latimer and Robert Niess

Contributor(s): Series: IFLA publications ; 180Publication details: Berlin : De Gruyter Saur, cop. 2021Description: 390 p. : digital, fitxer PDF (11,40 Mb)ISBN:
  • 9783110679663
Online resources: Summary: This book focuses on difficulties and opportunities in revitalization of old, derelict or abandoned buildings into a library and investigates the transformation of buildings which originally had a different purpose. The publication shows worldwide best practice examples from different types of libraries in historic environments, both urban and rural, while maintaining a focus on sustainability concerning the architecture and interior design. (Font: IFLA)
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About IFLA -- Preface / Petra Hauke, Karen Latimer, Robert Niess -- Part 1: Creative Building Reuse: Challenges and Responses: 1.Exceptional Libraries and Distinctive Architecture: Celebrating Reuse / Robert Niess ; 2. Using Historic Buildings to House New Libraries: Prerequisites and Conditions for Successful Revival / Santi Romero ; 3. The Reuse of Buildings: Libraries Behaving Sustainably / Karen Latimer -- Part 2: Case Studies: Public Libraries: 4. Patyegarang Place with a New Library and Pavilion Revitalizing a Hospital for Sydney's Inner West Community / Kim Small, Caroline McLeod ; 5. A Fire Hall Reused for Windsor Public Library's John Muir Branch in Ontario, Canada / Rebekah Mayer ; 6. Cultural Reconstruction of a Traditional Chinese Courtyard House into the Suochengli Neighbourhood Library / Yang Li ; 7. Converting and Extending a Historic Fire Station into a Library in Berlin, Germany / Robert Niess and Jürgen Radzkowski ; 8. Building Community Through Transforming 17th Century Barns in Kirchzarten, Germany / Petra Suppel, Willi Sutter and Angelika Manz ; 9. The Mössingen Library Emerges from the Pausa Tonnenhalle in Germany / Michael B. Frank and Canan Kadi ; 10. Rehabilitating a Textile Plant for Barcelona's Les Corts Neighbourhood Library / Ricard Mercade Rogel, Aurora Fernandez Grane, Jordi Gual Nevado ; 11. Repurposing a Grocery Store for the Joutsa Public Library in Finland / Nina Kuikka ; 12. Creating a Library from a Locomotive Shed in Tilburg, the Netherlands / Jeske Boemaars ; 13. Converting the Utrecht Post Office into the Neude Library / Jan van Grunsven, Bart Kellerhuis, Ton van Vlimmeren -- Part 3: Case Studies: Academic Libraries: 14. The Conversion of a Science Institute to a Faculty Library in Ghent, Belgium / Paul Buschmann, Anne-Lise Van der Meulen, Raf Van Den Berghe ; 15. A Cattle Market Becomes a University Library in Germany / Katharina Regulski ; 16. Integrating New Functions into the Historic Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar, Germany / Michael Knoche, Hilde Barz-Malfatti, Karl-Heinz Schmitz ; 17. From Locomotives to Libraries at Wildau Technical University, Germany / Robert Niess, Frank Seeliger ; 18. Reviving the Hexagon for the University Library on the Luminy Campus of Aix-Marseille University / Samuel Lespets and Remy Marciano ; 19. The American University of Paris Library in the Student Life and Learning Commons / Jorge F. Sosa and Lia Kiladis ; 20. A Slaughterhouse Pavilion Becomes an Architectural Library in Rome / Anna Raimondi ; 21. A Library Hovering in the Chapel in Bogota, Colombia / Gabriella Karl-Johnson ; 22. Transforming a Match Factory into the American Philatelic Research Library in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania / Tara Murray Grove -- Appendix: Sustainability and Reusing Buildings for Libraries: A Review of Selected Documents / Cletus D. Kuunifaa -- Contributors

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