tuomaskivinen: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryGordon Bunshaft | Skidmore, Owings & Mer
tuomaskivinen: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryGordon Bunshaft | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | 1963Yale University | New Haven | USBunshaft’s design of the Beinecke Library is a kind of a Russian nesting doll where the exterior architecture and spaces first establish a relationship between the building and the context, and then the interior architecture repeats the exterior condition in an abstracted way.The Vermont marble panels set in the massive Vierendeel truss walls of the facades are a reference to the neo-classicist architecture of the campus. The translucent stone sheets protect the books from harmful direct sunlight while providing a subdued but spectacular lighting effect inside. -- source link