Your Photo Dreams 2013: Birmingham City Centre The New Central Library largest in Europe 171113

Tuesday 19 November 2013

Birmingham City Centre The New Central Library largest in Europe 171113

Birmingham City Centre The New Central Library largest in Europe 171113

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The new Birmingham Library in Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham England.

(My old town where I was born)

website - www.libraryofbirmingham.com

read link http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library of Birmingham

They started construction on the 7th January 2013 and completed the library in April 2013. It was opened on the 3rd of September 2013. They had to transfer the books from the old library to the new.

It cost £188.80 million to build. It is 60 metres high (300feet). it as 10 storeys above the city's Centenary Square as a gigantic stack of boxes, wrapped in a mesh of metal loops.

The architect was Francine Houben and the Architecture firm that built it was called Mecanoo Architecten

Francine Houben (born in Sittard, 1955) is a leading Dutch architect. She is a founding partner and the creative director of Meconoo Architecten, Delft, The Netherlands.

The oeuvre of Francine Houben is extremely wide-ranging and includes projects such as universities, libriaries, theatres, residential areas, museum's and hotels. Houben combines the disciplines of architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture to form a unique solution to each situation. She has gained international acclaim for her works and has been praised for her playful and human style.

Francine Houben has held important proffessorships in the Netherlands and abroad, and in 2007 was visiting professor at Harvard University. From 2002 to 2006 she was City Architect of the Dutch city Almere. In 2001 she published her seminal manifesto about architecture: 'Composition, Contrast, Complexity' and brought as curator of the First International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam in 2003, the theme of mobility to the forefront of international design consciousness. In 2010 Francine Houben was granted lifelong membership to the Akademie der Künste, Architecture Department, in Berlin.

A few buildings to view on the skyline

BT Tower -10 Holloway Circus-Chamamberlian Clock tower-Alpha tower- Orion Building-Rotunda-103 Colmore Row-The Cube-Five Ways Tower- Centre City tower- Two Snowhill-1 Snow Hill Plaza-Quayside tower-Colmore Gate-McLaren Building-Metropolitan House-Edgbaston House- Post & Mail building- Jury Inn- Baskerville House-Chamberlain Memorial- Council house- Hall of Memory- (former Central library- Town Hall- Moor Street Station – New Street Station- Snow Hill- Aston University- Birmingham University- Children’s Hospital- Hyatt Regency- Holiday Inn-Jury’s Inn- Brindleyplace- Bullring_ Mailbox- Old Rep-Symphony Hall – Rep-