noa* tops library concept in milan with organic roof ring + blossoming park
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noa* tops library concept in milan with organic roof ring + blossoming park
-Starting a public library, studio, or event space
Nadia Asparouhova • 27: Friend groups
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a beautiful three room guest house in Mexico city by the Gjelina restaurant group.
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I love this
Natalie Audelo and added
To build resilient decentralized networks, let us create “Mother nodes”—sites in the network bearing a responsibility of care. We’ve built institutions like these before: consider public libraries, which serve both as bearers of cultural memory and as generous sources of nutrients for our minds and communities.
newpublic.org • The word for web is forest
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The OMA group studied desire lines and used them to plan the campus center, unified by a long single roof. The building wasn’t so much a new creation as an observation of extant use: it effectively enclosed the pathways and connections between activities on campus that were already established.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
Around 300BC, one of the most ambitious projects of all time was undertaken in the Greek-Egyptian city of Alexandria. The Ptolemies wanted to create the intellectual capital of the world, and so they established the famous LIbrary of Alexandria. This was not the first library, but what made it interesting was their extremely ambitious goal. They wa... See more
Dmitri Brereton (dkb) • To Organize The World's Information
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