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Generous glazing at the three corners of the building create a series of urban lanterns, while smalle

As part of the re-envisioned Joe DiMaggio Playground, the library is a pavilion in the park and creat

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The more immediate questions posed by the library engage architectural theory with questions of inten

Of course, the standard metric of library size used elsewhere—collection capacity—reveals problems wi

Book and manuscript repositories, capable of housing over eight million volumes, neatly occupy the sp

It is in this reading room, too, that the architecture most glorifies the acts of scholarship and eru

Inside, just below the sloping crystalline canopy, the great reading room—the crown jewel of the libr

The carefully choreographed groundscape constitutes one of the great successes of Sn?hetta’s design.

The difference between aerial photographs and the in-vivo experience is essential to the comprehensib

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Unfortunately, forty years of dissatisfied use indicates that the architectural success of the buildi

Working within a brutalist tradition known for its blocky and rectangular geometries, Robarts is cert

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The monumental pro

That the Robarts Library has established itself as one of the finest works of late brutalism despite

At the University of Toronto, the firm of Warner, Burns, Toan & Lunde (with local architects Mathers

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