Saw-toothed glass dances in a conga line above leaping arcs of metal roof at the Peter B. Lewis Science Library at Princeton University. The signature hand of Frank Gehry is unmistakable. But where are the books? Bloomberg
"Princeton's Gehry Library Banishes Stacks, Encourages Talking" & "But is the whole idea of a library itself obsolete, as more students use the Internet to do their research from home?" yet they keep building them. fund raising parties? or, "this is where you talk" (?)
Is this really that new? Isn't it just like a closed-stack library where the main spaces of the library are in fact reading / studying rooms?
ever actually drive by this thing? it presents its worst facade to the primary street (washington)...
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"Princeton's Gehry Library Banishes Stacks, Encourages Talking"
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"But is the whole idea of a library itself obsolete, as more students use the Internet to do their research from home?"
yet they keep building them.
fund raising parties? or, "this is where you talk" (?)
Is this really that new? Isn't it just like a closed-stack library where the main spaces of the library are in fact reading / studying rooms?
ever actually drive by this thing? it presents its worst facade to the primary street (washington)...
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