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Postmodernism · library
National Library of Belarus
A glass rhombicuboctahedron the size of a city block — books inside, a media facade outside.
Why this matters
- 23-storey diamond shape, 73.6 m tall, 115,000 m³ of glass
- 4646 LED panels turn the facade into a city-scale display at night
- Open observation deck on the 23rd floor
- Designed in 1989, finally built 2002–2006 by national lottery funds
Reference prompt
enormous glass rhombicuboctahedron library glowing blue at night, Minsk National Library, dusk
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Drawings · Pro
Floor plans, sections and elevations for this building will appear here.
Coming with archpin v0.3 — a 200-building drawings pack curated from published monographs.
Coming with archpin v0.3 — a 200-building drawings pack curated from published monographs.
Source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Belarus ↗Photo: Anna Hramyka / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA)