Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Snøhetta
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is built on a magnificent site alongside Alexandria's ancient harbor in the historic center of the city. The 11-story library can contain up to 4 million volumes of books, and can be expanded up to 8 million by the use of compact storage.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Book - Snøhetta
The book Bibliotheca Alexandrina tells the story behind this iconic project in Egypt, which kick-started Snøhetta's career in 1989. Through Snøhetta's own words and official voices involved in the project, the book retraces history to explore the …
AD Classics: Bibliotheca Alexandrina / Snøhetta - ArchDaily
Feb 3, 2015 · The Bibliotheca Alexandrina on Egypt ’s Mediterranean Coast is a spectacular, state-of-the-art facility with an unresolved architectural identity.
Snøhetta shares the story behind Bibliotheca Alexandrina ...
Oct 10, 2023 · The book Bibliotheca Alexandrina tells the story behind this iconic project in Egypt, which kick-started Snøhetta's career in 1989. Through Snøhetta's own words and official voices involved in the project, the book retraces history to explore the importance and impact of architecture, art and des...
Bibliotheca Alexandrina / Snøhetta - archiDATUM
Apr 20, 2015 · The Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt is a project with one foot in the past and the other in the future. Done in 1989, the library oozes a neo-millennial political and socio-historical connotations from a previous existing library.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina | Snøhetta - Archello
The 85,000 square meter Bibliotheca is built on a magnificent site alongside Alexandria’s ancient harbor in the historic center of the city. The 11-story library can contain up to 4 million volumes of books, a figure that can be expanded up to 8 million in the future by the use of compact storage.
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina by Snøhetta: Library with a View
Received as a competition-winning entry, the project construction spanned for 12 years; commissioned in 1989 as a contemporary regeneration of the legendary Library at Alexandria, a city deified throughout the ancient world at one point of time; and ending in 2001.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Snøhetta - World-Architects
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is built on a magnificent site alongside Alexandria's ancient harbor in the historic center of the city. The 11-story library can contain up to 4 million volumes of books, and can be expanded up to 8 million by the use of compact storage.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alejandría - Snøhetta - Arquitectura Viva
The bibliotheca Alexandrina is built on the historic harbor of Alexandria, the city founded by Alexander the Great some 2,300 years ago. The project honors the memory of the library of the ancient city, lost to civilization centuries ago.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina l Snøhetta - Arch2O.com
Located next to the sea, the newest embodiment of the Alexandria Library, Snøhetta’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina, is a simple design concept- a cut, circular plan, 525 feet in diameter and 750,000 ft² in area- which generates a complex and yet analogous space throughout.