UID:
almafu_9959849718702883
Format:
1 online resource (IX, 379 p.)
ISBN:
3-11-067966-3
Series Statement:
IFLA Publications ; 180
Content:
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.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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About IFLA --
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Preface --
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Part 1: Creative Building Reuse: Challenges and Responses --
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1 Exceptional Libraries and Distinctive Architecture: Celebrating Reuse --
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2 Using Historic Buildings to House New Libraries: Prerequisites and Conditions for Successful Revival --
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3 The Reuse of Buildings: Libraries Behaving Sustainably --
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Part 2: Case Studies: Public Libraries --
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4 Patyegarang Place with a New Library and Pavilion Revitalizing a Hospital for Sydney's Inner West Community --
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5 A Fire Hall Reused for Windsor Public Library's John Muir Branch in Ontario, Canada --
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6 Cultural Reconstruction of a Traditional Chinese Courtyard House into the Suochengli Neighbourhood Library --
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7 Converting and Extending a Historic Fire Station into a Library in Berlin, Germany --
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8 Building Community Through Transforming 17th Century Barns in Kirchzarten, Germany --
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9 The Mössingen Library Emerges from the Pausa Tonnenhalle in Germany --
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10 Rehabilitating a Textile Plant for Barcelona's Les Corts Neighbourhood Library --
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11 Repurposing a Grocery Store for the Joutsa Public Library in Finland --
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12 Creating a Library from a Locomotive Shed in Tilburg, the Netherlands --
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13 Converting the Utrecht Post Office into the Neude Library --
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Part 3: Case Studies: Academic Libraries --
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14 The Conversion of a Science Institute to a Faculty Library in Ghent, Belgium --
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15 A Cattle Market Becomes a University Library in Germany --
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16 Integrating New Functions into the Historic Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar, Germany --
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17 From Locomotives to Libraries at Wildau Technical University, Germany --
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18 Reviving the Hexagon for the University Library on the Luminy Campus of Aix- Marseille University --
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19 The American University of Paris Library in the Student Life and Learning Commons --
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20 A Slaughterhouse Pavilion Becomes an Architectural Library in Rome --
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21 A Library Hovering in the Chapel in Bogotá, Colombia --
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22 Transforming a Match Factory into the American Philatelic Research Library in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania --
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Appendix --
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Sustainability and Reusing Buildings for Libraries: A Review of Selected Documents --
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Contributors
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-067951-5
Language:
English
Keywords:
Llibres electrònics
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Llibres electrònics
DOI:
10.1515/9783110679663
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