This thing does for the eyes what the books do for the mind. - Daniel Dulitz

(Note, this is a CG render: http://features.cgsociety.org/story_c.... The current Stockholm library looks like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.... The render was a submission to a competition to expand the library; the winner is at http://www.arkitekt.se/s32025, though even that design may not actually be built.) - ⓞnor

Reminds me a bit of the Shiba Ryotaro memorial designed by Tadao Ando. (That one is much smaller than a public library; it's a 3 story space filled only with the books collected by Ryotaro.) I couldn't find any good pictures on a cursory googling besides CG recreations of it, though. - Andrew C (✔)

Thanks for the context, nor and Andrew. Maybe someone will build this someday, and if so I'll visit. :-) - Daniel Dulitz