That's a nice one, although the Oslo library is better looking. (It's interesting to me how the 'steel-sided box' look has supplanted both the brick-sided look and pre-fab look common when I was a kid.)
elm
still getting used to the constant appearance of the overhanging sections
I think there is much focus now on sustainability. I admit to liking more grand buildings, but all the old Carnegies had to be retrofitted as they were hard to access and heat. Oe thing is that a big public building is an architect's statement and there is fashion.
Here are the American ones for 2022. Any favorites?
Please read the first paragraph slowly until you encounter a verb that is plural paired with a subject that is singular. I'm accustomed to your writing style, and this was jarring.
My problem is usually that I've gone back and edited text and find out afterwards that what I thought was erased wasn't, and what I thought was new text is incomprehensible. Then I give up.
You are so precise in your writing it jarred me, wholly unexpected. I don't know if all Europeans use the British style of plurals for subjects we Yanks consider singular, as in "Government are ..." My time in Germany (eight or nine years) I learned that it was typical in places that got a lot of British visitors, such as Spanish Islands.
This is a very attractive library. I'm glad to see that it won a prize.
Can you imagine all the IFLA people voting for Missoula, Montana!?
That's a nice one, although the Oslo library is better looking. (It's interesting to me how the 'steel-sided box' look has supplanted both the brick-sided look and pre-fab look common when I was a kid.)
elm
still getting used to the constant appearance of the overhanging sections
I think there is much focus now on sustainability. I admit to liking more grand buildings, but all the old Carnegies had to be retrofitted as they were hard to access and heat. Oe thing is that a big public building is an architect's statement and there is fashion.
Here are the American ones for 2022. Any favorites?
https://www.aia.org/resources/6498946-2022-aiaala-library-building-award
Please read the first paragraph slowly until you encounter a verb that is plural paired with a subject that is singular. I'm accustomed to your writing style, and this was jarring.
That was a copy paste from the IFLA site. I usually correct if I see that! Those Europeans..
My problem is usually that I've gone back and edited text and find out afterwards that what I thought was erased wasn't, and what I thought was new text is incomprehensible. Then I give up.
You are so precise in your writing it jarred me, wholly unexpected. I don't know if all Europeans use the British style of plurals for subjects we Yanks consider singular, as in "Government are ..." My time in Germany (eight or nine years) I learned that it was typical in places that got a lot of British visitors, such as Spanish Islands.
I think I fixed it I won't trust their press release again. Thank You!