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Article: Volume of volumes. (new public library in Granada, Spain)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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This library pressed tightly into the fabric of the old city provides a new internal public space for the service of all citizens.
The new Granada public library is a big white box approximately 40 m wide and 60 m long which is crammed tight into its site in the Alfoz area of the city. The architects argue that this is in a tradition in which large buildings like the Jeronimas convent and the Asilo de las Hermanitas have been pressed into the tight urban tissue, leaving narrow streets and courts round about.
The whole of the ground floor of the box is of glass, which varies in height according to the level of the ground. Entrance is from the north-west and ...