Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Vennesla Library and Cultural Center, Vennesla, Norway

 This awesome contemporary library, took on the question "where are library design heading"?
With fun and interactive solutions the architects removed the barrier of a library as a solitaire quiet place and instead made it a participating and communicative area that is as much used for social gathering as the seek for knowledge. Libraries have to change (in my humble opinion) towards the ever changing social society that we have now. If we do no adapt to the new / contemporary library idea, we exclude the future readers from the herd of users. The idea behind a library is simple yet complex, it is, and should be for every body. Some old libraries have completely lost their place in society because they have not been either adapted to the users, or were poorly designed in the first place. Not all Libraries should be re-done, absolutely not, there are great beautiful old libraries that are as important and well functioning today as they were hundreds of years ago, I am saying there should be place for both. I like this library, because it takes the strides necessary to close the gap between Library as old, and library as contemporary. 
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