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Record Nr.

UNISA996423847203316

Titolo

New Libraries in Old Buildings : Creative Reuse / / ed. by Petra Hauke, Robert Niess, Karen Latimer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Saur, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-11-067966-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 379 p.)

Collana

IFLA Publications ; ; 180

Soggetti

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General

Biblioteques

Disseny arquitectònic

Edificis històrics

Edificis industrials

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About IFLA -- Preface -- Part 1: Creative Building Reuse: Challenges and Responses -- 1 Exceptional Libraries and Distinctive Architecture: Celebrating Reuse -- 2 Using Historic Buildings to House New Libraries: Prerequisites and Conditions for Successful Revival -- 3 The Reuse of Buildings: Libraries Behaving Sustainably -- Part 2: Case Studies: Public Libraries -- 4 Patyegarang Place with a New Library and Pavilion Revitalizing a Hospital for Sydney's Inner West Community -- 5 A Fire Hall Reused for Windsor Public Library's John Muir Branch in Ontario, Canada -- 6 Cultural Reconstruction of a Traditional Chinese Courtyard House into the Suochengli Neighbourhood Library -- 7 Converting and Extending a Historic Fire Station into a Library in Berlin, Germany -- 8 Building Community Through Transforming 17th Century Barns in Kirchzarten, Germany -- 9 The Mössingen Library Emerges from the Pausa Tonnenhalle in Germany -- 10 Rehabilitating a Textile Plant for Barcelona's Les Corts Neighbourhood Library -- 11 Repurposing a



Grocery Store for the Joutsa Public Library in Finland -- 12 Creating a Library from a Locomotive Shed in Tilburg, the Netherlands -- 13 Converting the Utrecht Post Office into the Neude Library -- Part 3: Case Studies: Academic Libraries -- 14 The Conversion of a Science Institute to a Faculty Library in Ghent, Belgium -- 15 A Cattle Market Becomes a University Library in Germany -- 16 Integrating New Functions into the Historic Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar, Germany -- 17 From Locomotives to Libraries at Wildau Technical University, Germany -- 18 Reviving the Hexagon for the University Library on the Luminy Campus of Aix- Marseille University -- 19 The American University of Paris Library in the Student Life and Learning Commons -- 20 A Slaughterhouse Pavilion Becomes an Architectural Library in Rome -- 21 A Library Hovering in the Chapel in Bogotá, Colombia -- 22 Transforming a Match Factory into the American Philatelic Research Library in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania -- Appendix -- Sustainability and Reusing Buildings for Libraries: A Review of Selected Documents -- Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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.