Tag: Library

  • Katie Paterson – interview: ‘It’s a living project, changing and surprising us’

    Future Library is artist Katie Paterson’s prayer that trees, literature and the human imagination will survive into the next century. She talks about the work and the opening of the Silent Room in an Oslo library in which a literary…

  • Alvar Aalto Library In Vyborg: Saving A Modern Masterpiece

    The finale to the long-running course of action to save this historic modernist masterpiece did not come through an astronomic bid by a Russian oligarch at auction but through the final award of a very substantial funding from the Russian…

  • Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban

    Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London 22 February-13 May 2007 A retrospective exhibition of the architecture of Alvar Aalto in central London is extremely timely. It is now almost ten years since the major exhibition was organised in New York…

  • Pallant House

    In August, this website featured an assessment of the high quality of the collections at Pallant House, Chichester. As promised in that article, here follows a more detailed appraisal of the new architecture of Pallant House itself. This building is…