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Article: Zigzag zenith. (library and cultural center in Herten, Germany)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1995
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This library and cultural centre translates disciplines of passive energy control normally associated with rural and suburban sites to the centre of a small German town.
The work of Log ID has regularly been shown in the AR's pages because this Tubingen practice has consistently pursued a policy of creatively investigating the potential of ambient energy (particularly solar) to create economical and humanly rewarding environments. But almost all of the firm's work so far has been one-off, isolated buildings in the suburbs or the countryside.
When the firm was commissioned to make a new library and cultural centre in Herten, it was faced with a new kind of ...