Grande Bibliotheque du Quebec

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Title	Grande Bibliotheque du Quebec
View	Context View looking northwest on Rue Berri
Work Type	buildings libraries (buildings)
Style/Period	Twenty-first century
Creator Name	Menkes Shooner Dagenais Architectes
Creator Nationality	Canadian
Date.Creator Birth	1961
Contributors to Project	Croft Pelletier Architectes (Canadian architectural firm, active ca. 2001-2005); Menkes Shooner Dagenais Architectes (Canadian architectural firm, founded 1961); Patkau Architects (Canadian architectural firm, founded 1983)
Subject.work	architecture contemporary (1960 to present) Education libraries
Country	Canada
City	Montreal
State/Province	Quebec
Location.Notes	475, De Maisonneuve Blvd. East
Architectural Material	steel; glass; copper; wood
Technique	construction (assembling)
Dates	2001-2005 (creation)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	5/5/2008
Subject Information	The Bibliotheque Nationale du Quebec is a 350,000 sq ft central library for the province of Quebec. Located in the Latin Quarter of Montreal, the building consists of general collections, an historic Quebec collection, and a variety of public spaces including a lecture theatre, cafe, gallery, garden, and booksellers. The collections are housed within two large wooden rooms; the wooden rooms are housed within a glass and copper-clad building. Between the wooden rooms and exterior skin are rich and complex spaces that reflect the diversity of the program, through a variety of light conditions, scales of spaces, and unexpected adjacencies.
Information.source	Patkau Architects [website]; http://www.patkau.ca/
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)

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