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

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Saur, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (IX, 379 p.)
• Soggetto topico: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General; Biblioteques; Disseny arquitectònic; Edificis històrics; Edificis industrials
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Persona (resp. second.): Barz-MalfattiHilde; BoemaarsJeske; BuschmannPaul; Fernández GranéAurora; FrankMichael B.; GroveTara Murray; GrunsvenJan van; HaukePetra; KadiCanan; Karl-JohnsonGabriella; KellerhuisBart; KiladisLia; KnocheMichael; KuikkaNina; KuunifaaCletus D.; LatimerKaren; LespetsSamuel; LiYang; ManzAngelika; MarcianoRémy; MayerRebekah; McLeodCaroline; MeulenAnne-Lise Van der; NevadoJordi Gual; NiessRobert; RadzkowskiJürgen; RaimondiAnna; RegulskiKatharina; RogelRicard Mercadé; RomeroSanti; SchmitzKarl-Heinz; SeeligerFrank; SmallKim; SosaJorge F.; SutterWilli; SüppelPetra; Van Den BergheRaf; VlimmerenTon van
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: New Libraries in Old Buildings
• ISBN: 3-11-067966-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996423847203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: IFLA Publications