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A Short Visit to Stockholm Public Library
"Stockholm Public Library was designed by Gunnar Asplund and opened in the spring of 1928. The library was the climax and finale to a neo-classical architectural era, and is based on the geometric shape of a cube encompassing a cylinder. The approximately 24-metre-high rotunda, the cylinder, in the middle, is surrounded by four lower rectangular, interconnected buildings, referred to as “rows” or “wings”.
With its magnificent, unadorned exterior, Stockholm Public Library is the zenith of Nordic architecture in the 1920s, deriving inspiration from both neoclassical and classical architectural idiom. The exterior walls are of lime-plastered brick crowned with a figurative stucco border featuring hieroglyphic-like motifs of all the subjects to be found within (294 images). The portal to the main entrance, above the steps leading up from Sveavägen, is high and tapering and the proportions are similar to those at the entrance to the park and the entrance from Odengatan."
https://biblioteket.stockholm.se/artikel/stockholm-public-library-gunnar-asplund
I borrowed:
The Deluge by Stephen Markley
Piercing by Ryu Murakami
Åsnesommar by Andrea Abreu
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
No Such Creature by Giles Blunt
A Short Visit to Stockholm Public Library
"Stockholm Public Library was designed by Gunnar Asplund and opened in the spring of 1928. The library was the climax and finale to a neo-classical architectural era, and is based on the geometric shape of a cube encompassing a cylinder. The approximately 24-metre-high rotunda, the cylinder, in the middle, is surrounded by four lower rectangular, interconnected buildings, referred to as “rows” or “wings”.
With its magnificent, unadorned exterior, Stockholm Public Library is the zenith of Nordic architecture in the 1920s, deriving inspiration from both neoclassical and classical architectural idiom. The exterior walls are of lime-plastered brick crowned with a figurative stucco border featuring hieroglyphic-like motifs of all the subjects to be found within (294 images). The portal to the main entrance, above the steps leading up from Sveavägen, is high and tapering and the proportions are similar to those at the entrance to the park and the entrance from Odengatan."
https://biblioteket.stockholm.se/artikel/stockholm-public-library-gunnar-asplund
I borrowed:
The Deluge by Stephen Markley
Piercing by Ryu Murakami
Åsnesommar by Andrea Abreu
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
No Such Creature by Giles Blunt
