Steedman murals in the Great Hall – visitors to the main St. Louis Public Library (SLPL) in downtown St. Louis, MO will have the unusual opportunity to see books from the Steedman Architectural Collection on display through May of this year. The exhibit is in the library’s Great Hall – itself worth …
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming – an impassioned and thought-provoking argument for the value to society of reading, libraries, librarians, and how the daydreaming that reading can stimulate leads to imagining a better future and the innovation that our social and economic well-being depends …
Unintentional Knowledge: What we find when we’re not looking – this is an eloquent plea for balance between digital and traditional library-based research. While fully supporting the capabilities offered by online search technology the author also highlights the value of what a person can find by browsing library stacks, the …
Saw this great Venetian library renovation in Lotus 151 (p 42) by Michele De Lucchi, the Biblioteca di Storia dell’Arte in a wing of the Fondazione Cini, a former dormitory for Benedictine monks. If you have a few minutes, treat yourself to a visit to De Lucchi’s website, aMDL …
The ABC Of Architects: An Animated List of Famous Designers And Their Buildings – one and a half minutes of fun, famous buildings by famous architects animated by Andrea Stinga and Federico Gonzalez of Ombu Architecture. Their tumblr site has more famous architects condensed to a wonderful graphic essence. It’s worth browsing through …
Designing Colleges For More Than Just Connectivity – about the results of Gensler research into the design of Campus 3.0, the step beyond a totally wired campus. A survey of 250 students revealed a need for far more possibilities for collaboration, for inspirational spaces, and for quiet study spaces. A …
Q&A: Designing the office of the future – interview with Allison Arieff of SPUR on trends in office design. When talking about how an office might accommodate different ways of working, she says this: …when I was in college and I went to the library there was a different place …