Turku Main Library [SEP] architect
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Turku Main Library


academics. These two libraries merged in 1912 to become Turku City Library. This library at the time was the third in Finland. Before there was a library in Turku, the only places to get books from a building was in Helsinki and Rauma. Turku City Library expanded its operations and moved to a newly constructed building in 2007. The old building was renovated by architectural firm Arkkitehtitoimisto C&Co Oy, and the new section and overall plan by JKMM Architects. The head designer was architect Asmo Jaaksi. There is approximately 5,400 m²
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Turku City Library


Turku City Library (, ) is a municipal library service in Turku, Finland which includes several branch libraries and Turku Main Library which is located in the city centre of Turku and is a combination of new building (built in 2007) and the old main library building (built in 1903). The old building was under renovation and reopened in autumn 2008. In 2011, the amount of annual visitors at Turku City Library was about 1,9 million with 3,1 million loans. In addition to Turku Main Library, the following branches
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Turku Main Library


Turku Main Library () is the chief branch of Turku City Library, located in the city centre of Turku, Finland. The library is approximately 8,500 m². The Turku Main Library 2,900 m² old building is a Dutch late Renaissance style building, constructed in 1903, built and delivered by Turku commercial counsellor Fredric von Rettig and designed by Karl August Wrede. The design was based on a Swedish House of Nobility in Stockholm. The first floor was a national library for the working class and the second was the city library for
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Old Great Square (Turku)


City of Turku in the 1930s, at which time both stories were used by the police department. After this, the downstairs level was a used as the children's and young adult's section of Turku City Library, and the Turku Cultural Centre worked in the upstairs level. The library section moved to the new building of Turku Main Library and the Turku Cultural Centre moved next door to the Old Town Hall. Four Baltic sea organisations moved into the building at the beginning of 2008: UBC Environment and Sustainable Development Secretariat,
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Turku Orthodox Church


Turku Orthodox Church or the Church of the Holy Martyr Empress Alexandra (; , "Cerkov v čest' svjatoj mučenicy cariny Aleksandry"; ) is the main church of the Turku orthodox parish located on the northeast corner of Turku Market Square in Turku, Finland. The church was built in under plans drafted by architect Carl Ludvig Engel and was ordered by Nicholas I of Russia on 5 January 1838. Construction, which began in 1839, cost 67,886 rubles and was completed in 1845. The church was consecrated on 2 September 1845.
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Turku Main Library


of space in the new building. Turku Main Library currently occupies three buildings: the old and new buildings and a former office building for the governor built in 1818 which is now Café Sirius . There is a walkway which connects the three buildings, going from old building past the café to the new building. The reference, magazine and the children's and young adults sections are located in the new building. After renovation was complete in 2008, the fiction, art and music sections can be found in the old building.
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JKMM Architects


Think Corner, Kalsatama School and Day Care, Lahti Travel Centre, the OP Financial Group's new headquarters, a library for Seinäjoki, a wooden church in Viikki, Turku City Library, and Verkatehdas Factory Cultural Center in Hämeenlinna as well as Finnish Pavilion for the Shanghai EXPO 2010 and Saunalahti house for Children. JKMM Architects has a long track record in high quality built work and architectural competitions. The partners of the JKMM Architects have won prizes in over 90 architectural competitions, including over 43 First Prizes. The office has received
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Architecture of Finland


been noted in Kerimäki Church (1847) - the world's largest wooden church - designed by Adolf Fredrik Granstedt, but with considerable input from the master builders for the project Axel Tolpo and his son Th. J. Tolpo. The eclectic mixtures of neo-Gothic, neo-Romanesque, neo-Classical and neo-Renaissance architecture continued even during the beginning of the 20th century, with architects using different styles for different projects or even combining elements in the same work. The Turku Main Library, by Karl August Wrede,
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Amos Rex


. The funding has been provided by the Finnish-Swedish arts foundation Konstsamfundet. The museum plan was unanimously approved by the Helsinki City Council in May 2014 and the new annex was scheduled to open in 2017. The new annex has designed by JKMM Architects, whose other works include the Turku Main Library and the Finnish pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. The construction of the new museum started in January 2016. Massless, the first exhibition at the Amos Rex museum, is made by the Japanese collective teamLab. It consists
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Legal deposit


had been ceded by Sweden to Russia, this privilege was confirmed in 1809. In 1820, all Russian print presses began to send legal deposit copies to Finland. Gaining its independence in 1917, Finland retained the principles of legal deposit. Helsinki University Library (the university had been transferred from Turku in 1827) remained the main deposit library. Additional copies began to be deposited in other libraries in Turku, Jyväskylä, and Vyborg (later Oulu). In 1984, the obligation to deposit was expanded to audiovisual materials; responsibility
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Architecture of Finland


histories of architecture, notably in the second edition (1949) of "Space, Time and Architecture" by the secretary-general of CIAM, Sigfried Giedion. Aalto's significant buildings from the early period of Modernism, which basically corresponded to the theoretical principles and architectural aesthetic of Le Corbusier and other modernist architects such as Walter Gropius, include the Turku Sanomat newspaper offices, Turku, Paimio tuberculosis sanatorium (1932) (part of a nationwide campaign for tuberculosis sanatorium construction) and Viipuri Library (1927–35). Central to Functionalism
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History of Helsinki


(1826), and the theatre (1827). Following the Great Fire of Turku in 1827, The Royal Academy of Turku, at the time the country's only university, was also relocated to Helsinki. It was renamed the Imperial Alexander University in Finland (after Emperor Alexander I) and eventually became the modern University of Helsinki. Engel designed the Main University Building (completed on the west side of Senate Square in 1832) and the university library (1844), now the National Library of Finland. The relocation
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Turku Main Library


The principle of percent for art was taken into consideration during the construction of the new building. This means that a part of the construction expenses were set aside for art projects at the library. Five works of art were acquired for the library: Saara Ekström's ornamental "Alkukirjain" (Initial Letter) spreads out on the walls of the main hall, and her video work "Aakkoset" (the Alphabet) can be seen at the Reading Corner of the hall. The sculpture "Visual Vortex - Passage of Events"
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Turku Main Library


by Hans-Christian Berg is situated in the showcase by the main entrance. "Vestigia" by Hilkka Könönen, inspired by abstract painting, is situated at the News Square. "Hetkinen" (Moment) by Ann Sundholm consists of gilded objects and a roof, and it shines its light on the main hall from the staff break room of the staff. Finally, Merja Pitkänen has realised sculpture installation "Esiintymä" (Occurrence) at the library cafe Sirius. These pieces are a part of the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of
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Erik Bryggman


; it is often said to have anticipated the pure modernism of the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930; but in fact, the Turku Fair was on a far smaller scale than the one in Stockholm – the main architects for which were Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz – and Aalto and Bryggman visited nearby Stockholm, Sweden, during the planning and building stages and took inspiration from it. With their celebration of structure, as well as typography and "street furniture", the influence of Russian Constructivist architecture on both the Stockholm and Turku fairs
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VI District, Turku


The VI District is the northernmost of the central districts of Turku, Finland. It is located on the west side of the river Aura, to the east of "Aurakatu". It forms part of the city's central business district, hosting a large proportion of the city's business life, particularly around the central Market Square ("Kauppatori"). The city's main bus station and the head library are also located in this district. The Finnish national road 1 begins in the VI District. The district is
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University of Helsinki


the assignment of designing an Empire-style main building next to Senate Square, facing the Imperial Senate. The main building was completed in 1832. Thanks to the lessons learnt from the fire of Turku, the library was built separate from other premises. The library and several faculty buildings in the campus were also designed by Engel. The main building as well as other buildings of the campus were badly damaged during the Soviet bombings in World War II but rebuilt after the war. The plan concerning the concentration of university facilities dating
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Turku Central Station


a new railway to Helsinki was opened, and subsequently rail traffic to and from Turku became more frequent. The older station was demolished in 1938, and a new, more modern, one was built in its place. The current building, completed in 1940, was designed by Finnish architects Väinö Vähäkallio and Martti Välikangas. In addition to the two main railway lines to Helsinki and Joensuu, the station has handled passenger traffic to Naantali and Uusikaupunki. These local lines have been discontinued due to lack of use, but are still
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Henric Rungeen


merchant began in 1711, just two years before the Russian occupation of Finland. After the almost decade-long occupation Rungeen was one of the most active Turku merchants who contributed rebuilding of the city. According to the surviving taxation documents, Rungeen was the third riches merchant of Turku. Rungeen funded for example renovation of the city hall, main guard building and a new bridge over river Aura. In 1732 he made an offer for building a new city hall but eventually a slightly more expensive plan of the City Architect Samuel Berner
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Volter Kilpi


his school and university years. He worked for more than twenty years in at the University of Helsinki Library and other libraries in Helsinki, before moving to Turku where he became first a librarian at that city's municipal library, later the first librarian of Turku's Finnish-language university in November 1920. Kilpi's most important literary work has been written during his years in Turku, near his family roots. Kilpi wrote his first novel "Bathsheba" (1900) already as a student. It was awarded the Finnish State
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Charles Bassi


travelled to Finland (at the time a part of Sweden) to supervise the construction of a new building for the Royal Academy of Turku designed by Gjörwell. The finishing of the construction of the building was delayed until 1815 and by that time Bassi had already established himself as an independent architect in Turku. He never returned to Sweden but settled permanently in Finland (which in 1809 had been lost by Sweden to Russia following the Finnish War). At first he was active as an independent architect, notably in Turku, and
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Architecture of Finland


its builder-owner Herman Klasson Fleming) is a rare example in Finland of a Palladian-style country house. The construction of manor houses in Finland raises the name of an early foreign architect in Finland; Prussian-born Christian Friedrich Schröder (1722-1789) was by training a mason and who worked in Stockholm before moving to Turku in 1756 and was appointed city architect in 1756 - which included responsibility for training assistants. Among his works in Turku, was the rebuilding of the tower of Turku Cathedral Designing in the
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Nana (C++ library)


it therefore uses many advanced C++ features, such as templates, standard libraries, exception and RTTI. It fully supports C++11 since 2012, giving the developers the freedom to use various modern C++ features such as lambda functions, smart pointers and the standard library. Nana was written in C++ and targets only this language. The following Nana example creates a window with a "Hello, World" caption and a "Quit" button: int main() The current version 1.5.5 was released on Sep 05, 2017. According to
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Turku


the Great Fire of Turku, which almost completely destroyed the city in 1827. After the fire, a new and safer city plan was drawn up by German architect Carl Ludvig Engel, who had also designed the new capital, Helsinki. Turku remained the largest city in Finland for another twenty years. In 1918, a new university, the Åbo Akademi – the only Swedish language university in Finland – was founded in Turku. Two years later, the Finnish language University of Turku was founded alongside it. These two universities are
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Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park, Illinois


a new Main Library building. In 2000, Oak Park voters approved the library referendum to spend $30 million to build a new Main Library building, as well as to accelerate the rate of repairs at the 63-year-old Maze Branch Library. The proposed new three-story Main Library building more than doubled the size of the previous building and offered the flexibility to meet future information needs. Nagle Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Architect Planners of Chicago and the interior design firm Eva Maddox Associates, Inc. of Chicago were selected as architects
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy


topic to reflect reasoned disagreements among scholars. Initially, the "SEP" was developed with U.S. public funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. A long-term fundraising plan to preserve open access to the encyclopedia is supported by many university libraries and library consortia. These institutions contribute under a plan devised by the "SEP" in collaboration with the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, the International Coalition of Library Consortia, and the Southeastern Library Network, with matching funding from the National Endowment for
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C. J. von Heideken


Carl Johan von Heideken (23 August 1832 – 27 March 1888) was a Swedish architect who made his career in Finland. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. After graduating from the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, von Heideken moved to Finland. He worked as the city architect of Pori from 1853 to 1853 after he moved to Helsinki and lived there for seven years. In 1865 he was selected the city architect of Turku. After 1868 he worked as the architect of Turku and Pori Province. Heideken
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Gunnar Asplund


in parallel with other European modernists like Erich Mendelsohn. Asplund collaborated with architect Sigurd Lewerentz in the design of Skogskyrkogården, a cemetery which is a world heritage site, created between 1914 and 1940. They were also the main architects for the temporary Stockholm International Exhibition (1930). Although temporary, the modernist, exposed-glass-and-steel-frame Entry Pavilion at the fair was internationally influential. In fact, it was influential already before its completion, having an influence on the much smaller Turku Fair in Finland,
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Everett Public Library


is opened, and in 1987 funding was approved to add an additional to the Main Library. In 1991 expansion of the Main Library was completed. This expansion was designed by the Cardwell/Thomas Architects and B. Craig Thompson of Dykeman Architects. The expansion won an award from the American Institute of Architects. Except for some exterior renovation, the building remains largely unchanged, at , shelving capacity for 250,000 volumes and a parking garage that can hold 115 vehicles. The original building, located at 3001 Oakes, still stands but no
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Turku Concert Hall


Turku Concert Hall (, ) is located on the north side of the Puutori market square in Turku, Finland. The hall was designed by architect Risto-Veikko Luukkonen and constructed in 1952. It was the first concert hall in Finland. The Turku Philharmonic Orchestra primarily performs at the concert hall but there are many top international venues that perform there as well. There is one auditorium in the building and it was designed for concerts. Its audience capacity is 1,002. The acoustics are excellent. In addition to concerts, conferences
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Robert Seppings


Sir Robert Seppings, FRS (11 December 176725 April 1840) was an English naval architect. Seppings was born to Robert and Lydia Seppings at Fakenham, Norfolk, on 11 December 1767 and baptised three days later. In 1782 he was apprenticed in HMNB Devonport, Plymouth. In 1800, when he had risen to be master shipwright assistant in the yard, he invented a device which greatly reduced the time required to repair the lower portions of ships in dry dock when compared with the laborious process of lifting then in vogue.
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Turku University Hospital


Turku University Hospital (, ) is a hospital in Turku, Finland. The hospital serves as the central hospital for southwestern Finland. It is located near the city centre of Turku and the university, and has branches in the nearby towns of Raisio and Paimio. The hospital unit in Paimio operates in a former tuberculosis sanatorium, the Paimio Sanatorium, designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. The hospital is owned and operated by the Hospital District of Southwest Finland which is a joint municipal authority responsible for production of specialized medical services
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Georg Theodor Chiewitz


went bankrupt and moved to Finland. From 1852–1860, Chiewitz was the regional architect of Turku and Pori Province and 1860–1862 the city architect of Turku. Chiewitz was the favourite architect of King Oscar I of Sweden. He designed several structures for Haga Park and the gardens of Ulriksdal Palace in Solna and Tullgarn Palace in Södertälje. Most important works are the Blackamoor Bridge in Ulriksdal Palace and Oscar I's Orangery in the garden of Tullgarn Palace. His best known works in Finland are the Central Pori Church, House of Nobility (Ritarihuone
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Tritonia Academic Library


same material, both digital and otherwise, to all the students and researchers of the respective universities. The Tritonia main building was completed in 2001 and it is located in the heart of the campus of University of Vaasa. In 2010 Vaasa University of Applied Sciences and Novia University of Applied Sciences joined the collaboration and merged their libraries with Tritonia's. As of 2014 Tritonia has five locations in three cities -- three in Vaasa, one in Jakobstad, and one in Turku. The collections in Tritonia reflect the curricula of the respective
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Great Fire of Turku


. As a result of the fire, the Imperial Academy of Turku was transferred to Helsinki, the new capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland, thus contributing to the city losing its significance as Helsinki grew. Governor-General of the Grand Duchy of Finland Arseniy Zakrevskiy was responsible for rebuilding the city after the fire. His proposal resulted in the Senate of Finland selecting Architect Carl Ludvig Engel to create the new city plan for Turku. Downtown Turku is still based on Engel’s grid plan, which was approved on 15 December
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Old Academy Building


The Old Academy Building (, ) is a neoclassical building, originally consecrated in 1817 for the Royal Academy of Turku in Turku, Finland. It is located in Cathedral Square next to Turku Cathedral. The building was designed by Swedish architect Carl Christoffer Gjörwell. Laying down the foundation stone of the Old Academy Building in 1802 was a milestone where Swedish king Gustav IV Adolf and Queen Fredrika Dorotea were present. The Old Academy Building suffered damage due to the Great Fire of Turku in 1827. After the devastation caused by the fire
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Boise Public Library


library opened in 1973 at 715 S Capitol Blvd. The main library floor space was designed to serve a population of 75,000 residents, and to reduce demand at the main library, the city opened branch libraries beginning in 2008, when the population well exceeded 200,000 and the main library had outgrown its building. Plans for a new main library were drawn by architect Moshe Safdie in 2018. Safdie's building would cost $80 million and be ready to open in 2021-22 on the site of Boise's current main library.
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Meyer Turku


was founded in November 1989 under name Masa-Yards Oy to continue operations of the previously bankrupted Wärtsilä Marine. The heritage, however, goes back to 1737 when industrial shipbuilding was first started in Turku. Meyer Turku Oy is fully owned by Germany-based Meyer Werft GmbH. The main facility is Turku shipyard that is situated in Perno, Turku. The yard area is 144 hectares and it is equipped with a dry dock that is 365 metres long, 80 metres wide and 10 metres deep. The main crane is a bridge
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Signal Transfer Point


. SEPs send signaling messages to other SEPs, but the messages are normally routed via the SEP's adjacent STPs. An STP's main function is to identify the best path for two SEPs to communicate. A typical application would be for two SEPs to agree on the use of a shared data path (e.g., using ISUP to initiate a voice call between a user on one SEP and a user on the second SEP). In this way, STPs route signaling messages (for starting, maintaining or finishing any kind of
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Davenport Public Library


The Davenport Public Library is a public library located in Davenport, Iowa. With a history dating back to 1839, the Davenport Public Library's Main Library is currently housed in a 1960s building designed by Kennedy Center architect Edward Durell Stone. The Davenport Public Library system is made up of three libraries—the Main Library at 321 Main Street; the Fairmount Branch Library at 3000 N. Fairmount Street; and the Eastern Avenue Branch Library at 6000 Eastern Avenue. The library began with a reading room in the Le Claire Hotel established in
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Lied Library


The Lied Library building, at 5 stories and , is the largest on University of Nevada, Las Vegas's (UNLV) campus in Paradise, Nevada. The Architect of Record was Simpson Coulter Studio (formerly Welles Pugsley Architects). The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries were established in 1957 and now include the main Lied Library (pronounced LEED), four branch libraries: Architecture Studies Library, Health Sciences Library, Teacher Development & Resources Library, and Music Library. In addition, one virtual campus is supported (
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Turku Castle


is entrusted to the use of the city of Turku. The castle functions in its entirety as a historical museum as part of the Turku provincial museum. In the main part of the castle are banquet rooms for the city of Turku, a church for the local congregation and also restaurants in both the main castle and the bailey. Today the castle is once more experiencing a heyday as it has achieved the status of being one of Finland's most visited museums. The layout of the castle consists of the Medieval keep ("
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Henry Clay Folger


Congress passed a resolution allowing use of the land on East Capitol Street where the Folger Shakespeare Library now stands. After the passage of this legislation, Folger hired Paul Philippe Cret as the Library's architect, suggested by Alexander Trowbridge, an architect who had married into the Pratt family and stayed on the project as consulting architect. Folger played an integral part in the design and execution of the Library's classical exterior and Tudor interior. The inclusion of an Elizabethan theater within the Library's main building was also Folger's idea,
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Sep Ruf


Sep Ruf (full name Franz Joseph Ruf; 9 March 1908, in Munich – 29 July 1982, in Munich) was a German architect and designer, belonging to the Bauhaus group. He was one of the representatives of modern architecture in Germany after World War II. His elegant buildings received high credits in Germany and Europe and his German pavilion of the Expo 58 in Brussels, built together with Egon Eiermann, achieved worldwide recognition. He attended the Interbau 1957 in Berlin-Hansaviertel and was one of the three architects who
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Nashville Public Library


those buildings are still in use today, the North Branch and the East Branch. The Carnegie Library Building was razed and replaced with the Ben West Public Library in 1963. The Main Library was housed in the Ben West building for 38 years. The new Main Library Building, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, was opened in 2001. Previously on the site for the Main Library was a downtown shopping mall called Church Street Center. There are 20 library branches in the Nashville Public Library system. They are: The Nashville
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Florida International University


's main library; the Glenn Hubert Library (Biscayne Bay Campus), the Wolfsonian Library, the Engineering Library, the Law Library, and the Medical Library. The Green Library, Hubert Library, and Engineering Library Service Center are under the direction of the Dean of University Libraries. Other libraries are overseen by their appropriate schools or organizations. The Green Library is FIU's main library, is the largest building on campus, and one of the largest library buildings in the Southeastern United States. Originally designed by Architect David M.
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Erik Bryggman


Erik William Bryggman (7 February 1891, in Turku – 21 December 1955, in Turku) was a Finnish architect. He was the youngest of five brothers of Johan Ulrik Bryggman (1838–1911) and Wendla Gustava Bryggman (née Nordström) (1852–1903). He began studies in architecture at Helsinki University of Technology in 1910 and qualifying as an architect in 1916. In 1914 he and fellow student Hilding Ekelund made a study trip to Denmark and Sweden. In 1920 he travelled to Italy, where he became inspired more by the
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Round Rock Public Library


Round Rock Public Library (RRPL) is a public library located in Round Rock, Texas The library building stands on a corner lot on the Main Street in downtown Round Rock, the site of the Sam Bass shootout of 1878. The library's plot of land has been used by a variety of business and by the City of Round Rock. The current library building, c. 1997, was designed by architect Ray Gill of the firm Ray Gill Architects, with a design that reflected the site's local history. The Library
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Scott Simons Architects


greenest building" in Maine and was awarded "Net Zero Energy Building of the Year" in 2012 by the North East Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA). SSA is also the architect of record for the 2010 renovation and addition to the Portland Public Library, many other Maine libraries, educational buildings, and the 2014 renovation and addition to the "transformational" Casco Bay Lines Ferry Terminal. Staff from the firm have also participated in juries for national library awards and many regional and statewide AIA awards programs. The work of this
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Turku Airport


terminal will be completely demolished and low-cost concept will be continued in the first floor of main terminal in new premises. Logicity started as a project of Pilot Turku Ltd (founded in 2003) but now operated by Turku Municipal Property Corporation after the contract with Pilot Turku Ltd ended 2010. Logicity will be a logistic hub built around Turku Airport. Logicity is supposed to link the different modes of transportation together. Location is considered ideal due to facts that Turku Airport is just in 20 minutes reach by sea ports of Turku
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Brinkhall Manor


Brinkhall Manor ( or ) is a historic manor house on Kakskerta island in the municipality of Turku, Finland. The mansion can trace its history back to the 16th century, when it was owned by Hans Erikson, the commander of Turku Castle, who also owned Brinkkala Mansion on the great square in Turku. He built a small castle, which was replaced by the existing manor in 1793. The house was designed by Gabriel von Bonndorff, an architect who was also the owner. It is the first neoclassical manor house in
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Auburn Public Library (Maine)


Auburn Public Library is the public library of Auburn, Maine. It is located at 49 Spring Street. The library's main building was built in 1903 with a donation from Andrew Carnegie, and the building was designed by architect William R. Miller in a Renaissance style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. State Representative and one time Mayor of Auburn George C. Wing Jr. was President of the Auburn Public Library's Board of Trustees from 1939 to 1951. The library building was expanded in 1956 and
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Main Library (Albuquerque, New Mexico)


The Main Library is a public library in Downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico and the main branch of the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Library system. Opened in 1975, it was designed by local architect George Pearl and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. The library is a concrete-framed Brutalist structure designed to maximize the flexibility of the interior space with a modular layout and movable partitions. Pearl considered it one of his "three or four most important" designs. The Albuquerque Public Library was established in 1901 and moved
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Fort Fairfield Public Library


The Fort Fairfield Public Library, located at 339 Main Street, is the public library of Fort Fairfield, Maine, USA. Fort Fairfield had a private library as early as 1880. It became a town-supported library in 1894 with a circulation of 300 books. In 1911 the town received a grant of $10,000 from Andrew Carnegie - making it one of the seventeen Carnegie libraries in the state of Maine. The building was designed by Lewiston architect Harry Coombs, and built by R.J. Noyes of Augusta. The Fort Fairfield
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1496 Turku


1496 Turku, provisional designation , is a Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 22 September 1938, by astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at the Iso-Heikkilä Observatory in Turku, Finnland. The asteroid was named for the Finnish city of Turku. "Turku" is a member of the Flora family (), a giant asteroid family and the largest family of stony asteroids in the main belt. It is, however, a non-family asteroid from the
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Hubbard Free Library


The Hubbard Free Library is the public library serving Hallowell, Maine and the surrounding communities of Chelsea and Farmingdale. Built in 1879-80, it is the oldest library building in Maine built for that purpose. It was designed by architect Alexander C. Currier to resemble an English country church. Dedicated in 1880 as the Hallowell Library, it was renamed the Hubbard Free Library in 1894, after a $20,000 donation from philanthropist Thomas Hubbard. The building is a contributing property in the Hallowell Historic District. The Hallowell Social Library was
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Matti Pohto


bookbinder, and started collecting books in 1838 at the age of 21. Pohto acquired most of his books from manor houses and vicarages throughout Finland. In 1847 he got to know Fredrik Wilhelm Pipping, the librarian of the Royal Academy of Turku. The library had been destroyed in the 1827 Great Fire of Turku. With Pohto's assistance, Pipping succeeded in collecting almost all Finnish literature printed thus far and re-established the library collection in the nation's new capital Helsinki. In 1857, Pipping published a bibliography of Finnish
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Turku Airport


low-cost airlines since 2008. Turku Airport and its surroundings are marketed as LogiCity in hopes to attract logistic companies and manufacturers near the airport. Turku Airport was Finland's first civilian airport when it was built in Artukainen in 1935, but already in the 1920s there was a water airport on Ruissalo Island. Artukainen served as a main airport of Turku until the new airport was built in the municipality of Rusko in 1955. The location become part of Turku in 1957. New terminal building was opened in 1978. Runway was
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Medieval Market of Turku


The Medieval Market of Turku (, ) is an annual historical reenactment event organised in the historic city centre of Turku, Finland. Admission to the event is free. In addition to living history performances, it includes an open-air handicrafts market with vendors and even visitors garbed in period costume. The main market is at the Old Great Square (one of the city's oldest market squares), but there are other performances and exhibitions at Turku Castle, Turku Cathedral and at the Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum.
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Rick Joy


Rick Joy (born 1958 Maine, United States) is an American architect. Rick Joy is Principal of Rick Joy Architects, an architecture and planning firm established in 1993 in Tucson, Arizona. Joy was born in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. He studied music at the University of Maine before studying architecture at the University of Arizona, graduating in 1990. His architectural career began with a 3-year appointment on the design team of the Phoenix Public Library with Will Bruder Architects. In 1993, Joy established Rick Joy Architects in Tucson
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Martin's Church


Martin's Church (, ) in Turku, Finland is the main church of Martin's parish, founded in 1921. The church was consecrated on the 450th anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther, on November 12, 1933. he designers of the church were the architects Totti Sora and Gunnar Wahlroos. The church represents architectural functionalism. Martin's church is a long church with three aisles with very narrow side aisles. The church has a functional and singular practicality of its own. The barrel-vaulting of the roof is
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W. Haydon Burns


his death in 1987. Jacksonville's main public library, built in 1965, was named the Haydon Burns Library in honor of the former mayor. It was designed by Taylor Hardwick, a local architect who designed many local structures built in Jacksonville. From 1965 to 2005 it was the main library of Jacksonville. In 2005 it was replaced by a new Main Library. In 1966, the building located at 605 Suwannee Street in Tallahassee, Florida, opened and was named the W. Haydon Burns Building. It became home to the
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Ottawa Library (Kansas)


The Ottawa Library is a Carnegie library located at the intersection of 5th and Main Streets in Ottawa, Kansas. Built in 1903, the library housed the collection of the Ottawa Library Association, which was founded in 1873. The Carnegie Foundation provided a $15,000 grant toward the library's construction. George P. Washburn, a prominent Kansas architect who lived in Ottawa, designed the library in a free classical style. The two-story yellow brick building has a limestone foundation and a hipped roof. The building's main entrance has
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Visual Component Library


in multi-threading support of the OpenWire VCL library. VCL provides native support for PME (properties, methods and events) model at the .NET level. Much of the .NET design, especially WinForms, is modeled after the VCL. One of the main architects of the first Delphi versions, Anders Hejlsberg, was hired by Microsoft and became one of the main architects of .NET. This became the subject of a lawsuit: at the time (1996), "Borland alleged that Microsoft had hired 34 Borland employees over the
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Anthony Judge


innovation in international meeting processes, especially in conferences with special problems. He thus played advisory and facilitatory roles in several events such as Inter-Sectoral Dialogue (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), World Futures Studies Conference (Turku, 1993), and Parliament of the World's Religions (Chicago, 1993). The "Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential", of which Anthony Judge has been the main architect, is a monumental work that came into being thanks to a partnership between the UIA and Mankind 2000.
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Universidad Iberoamericana


The Ibero-American University (in , abbreviated UIA but commonly known as Ibero or La Ibero) is one of the most prestigious universities in Mexico and in Latin America. The private institution of higher education is sponsored by the Society of Jesus, and it is recognized as having an international-grade level of excellence. In 2009, the UIA received the SEP-ANUIES Prize as the best private university in Mexico. The Ibero's flagship campus is located in the Santa Fe district of Mexico City. Its main library,
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Rumford Public Library


The Rumford Public Library is a library in Rumford, Maine. The building it is in was designed by Maine architect John Calvin Stevens and was built with a funding grant from Andrew Carnegie in 1903. The architecturally distinguished building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The original portion of the Rumford library is a -story red brick structure with a side-gable roof. Its Romanesque styling is most pronounced in its projecting entry pavilion, a gable-roofed section centered on the middle third of the main facade
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Main Library (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)


The Main Library is a historic library on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. Built in 1924, the library was the third built for the school; it replaced Altgeld Hall, which had become too small for the university's collections. Architect Charles A. Platt designed the Georgian Revival building, one of several on the campus which he designed in the style. The red brick building features a three-bay main entrance with limestone archways and a green slate roof with a series of
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University of Helsinki


new Main Library was opened in 2012 in the Kaisa House. The new library merged the undergraduate library and four dispersed faculty libraries of the city center campus to a collection of approximately 1.5 million books. The architecture of the new building, designed by Anttinen Oiva Architects, has been praised and received several awards. The Helsinki University Museum is the museum of the University of Helsinki and was located until June 2014 on "Snellmanninkatu" off the north-east corner of Senate Square. Museums main exhibition moved to the University Main Building
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Xuzhou University of Technology


library in Xuzhou University of Technology consists of the main library and the branch libraries of Center campus, occupying an area of 25,208 square metres equipped with more than 2000 seats. The main library located in the south of Xuzhou is designed by a famous architect-Qi Kang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Its architectural style is with a solemn atmosphere. In the library, all things are laid out rationally and suitably with recreational Facilities. All the documents are arranged according to the settings of subjects, adopting a
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Soldiers Memorial Library


The Soldiers Memorial Library is the public library of Hiram, Maine. It is located at 85 Main Street in the center of the small town, in a small concrete-block building erected in 1915–16. It is architecturally significant as one only two library buildings in the state built using ornamental concrete blocks, and was for this reason listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The library building was designed by Boston architects Robert Wambolt and Amos A. Lawrence, and is set on a small grassy lot with several small
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Former Caswell Public Library


The Former Caswell Public Library is an historic building at 42 Main Street in Harrison, Maine. Built in 1908-09, it is one of the small community's most architecturally distinctive buildings, designed in the Romanesque Revival style by a local architect. It is named for Daniel Caswell, a generous benefactor to the library, and housed the local public library until 2004. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The building is presently vacant. The former Caswell Public Library stands on the north side
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Rangeley Public Library


The Rangeley Public Library is located at 7 Lake Street in Rangeley, Maine. The library is privately owned by the non-profit Rangeley Library Association, and is open to the general public. It is located in an architecturally distinguished Romanesque Revival building designed by New York City architect Ambrose Walker and built in 1909, with a major addition in 2002. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The library is set on the west side of Lake Street in the main village of Rangeley, a
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Cutler Memorial Library


The Cutler Memorial Library building houses the public library of Farmington, Maine. It is located at 117 Academy Street (corner of High Street), between the downtown area and the campus of the University of Maine at Farmington. Its building, dedicated to the memory of Nathan Cutler, was built in 1901-03 as the town's first dedicated library building, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The library building is a small Beaux Arts stone structure, designed by Auburn architect William R. Miller
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Sir Duncan Rice Library


historic collections, including more than a quarter of a million ancient and priceless books and manuscripts that have been collected over five centuries since the University's foundation. There is also public exhibition space. The library replaced the smaller Queen Mother Library as the university's main library. The Queen Mother Library had been the university's main library since 1965. The university conducted a restricted international design competition for the new library in 2005. The Danish architectural firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen architects were successful. The project was the largest capital fundraising project
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Main Library (Albuquerque, New Mexico)


, and the Convention Center, were ultimately completed. In 1972, the city commissioned the firm of Stevens, Mallory, Pearl and Campbell to design the new library. The lead architect was George Clayton Pearl (c. 1924–2003), who had a long career in New Mexico and for whom the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning building is named. The Main Library opened in 1975. Controversy involving the Main Library arose in 1999 when the city decided to have a group of high school students paint a mural on
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Bogotá


by the architect Suely Vargas of El Tintal, in the west, the work of the architect Daniel Bermúdez, and the Virgilio Barco Vargas library, located in the Simón Bolívar park in the central area, work of the architect Rogelio Salmona. The three libraries, in addition to their excellent architecture, offer spaces for the educational and cultural development of the citizens of Bogota. As for 2019, the city's distribution is composed of nine main business centers (Av. El Dorado Business Corridor, Centro Internacional, Parque de la
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Artukainen


Artukainen (Swedish "Artukais") is a district of the city of Turku, Finland. It is located in the western part of the city, five kilometres from the city centre. It has a population of 78 (as of 2004) making it one of the smallest districts of Turku. The district's relatively small population is due to its status as one of the biggest industrial concentrations in the city. Finland's first airport was built in Artukainen in 1935. It served as the main airport of Turku until Turku
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1496 Turku


main belt's background population when applying the Hierarchical Clustering Method to its proper orbital elements. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.8–2.6 AU once every 3 years and 3 months (1,197 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.16 and an inclination of 3° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with its first identification as at Johannesburg Observatory in August 1928, more than 10 years prior to its official discovery observation at Turku. "Turku" is an
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Santa Monica Public Library


encouraged to read the same book and to discuss it. The first selection was Dai Sijie's "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress". In 1996, a formal planning process began for the expansion of the Main Library, including community focus groups, surveys, and meetings. The result was a Library Master Plan, and Moore Ruble Yudell (MRY) Architects & Planners of Santa Monica was chosen to formulate the conceptual design. Pamela Burton & Company was the landscape architect on this project. In 1998, a bond was
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Lake Seppings


Lake Seppings (Noongar: Tjuirtgellong) is a freshwater lake located within the city of in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. The lake is east-north-east of the Albany city centre. The main bitumen roads that border Lake Seppings are Golf Links Road to the east, Troode Street to the north, Collingwood Road, Drew Street/Sleeman Avenue to west and Lake Seppings Drive to the south. The lake is nearly completely surrounded by a compacted gravel footpath and wooden walkways. A wooden bird hide has been
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Eldredge Public Library


Eldredge Public Library is the public library of Chatham, Massachusetts. It is located at 564 Main Street, in a National Register-listed Romanesque Revival building donated by Chatham native Marcellus Eldredge. It was designed by Boston architect A. M. Marble. The library is set at the southeast corner of Main Street and Library Lane in Chatham's central business district. It is a 1-1/2 story brick and stone structure, with a slate roof and a granite foundation. Its Romanesque Revival features include parapeted end walls, eyebrow dormers,
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Charles M. Bailey Public Library


The Charles M. Bailey Public Library is the public library serving Winthrop, Maine. It is located at 39 Bowdoin Street, near the town center. It was officially established by the town on November 4, 1916, and opened to the public on December 2, 1916. The library became a free library in 1970, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The original granite structure was designed by prominent Maine architect John Calvin Stevens, and his son John Howard Stevens. The 2015 addition was designed
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Consulate General of the United States, Munich


the third largest U.S. diplomatic post in Germany after Berlin and Frankfort. The consulate is located in a custom-built office building, the last of the signature modernist U.S. Consulates built in Germany in the 1950s still in service. The work of renowned Bavarian architect Sep Ruf, the building is considered a historic monument. As the main building from 1958 is raised on concrete stilts, the original look was airy and light. Security measures, added several times since the 1970s and fortifications build around the site after 9/11 inhibit this effect
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Lee Harris Pomeroy


historic buildings were routinely being demolished rather than repurposed. In New Rochelle, New York, Pomeroy, along with architects John Lebduska and Fred W.Lyon, designed another notable adaptive reuse project which involved the conversion of an automobile garage into an award-winning 75,000-SF, three-level New Rochelle Public Library. New Rochelle Public Library The main section of the building was refurbished from a former parking garage The project won an 'Award of Excellence for Library Architecture' from the American Institute of Architects and the American Library Association in 1980.
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Indian Orchard Branch Library


a permanent branch library began in 1901. Henry Kirke Wight donated space in a commercial building at Oak and Main Streets, which was put to use in 1901. Later in the decade, the city received a grant from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie for new and updated library facilities, which was used in part to fund construction of the present building. It was designed by John Donohoe, a prominent local architect, and opened in 1909. The building was featured in a 1911 edition of "The American Architect" for its simple but
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Jacksonville Public Library


Located downtown near City Hall and Hemming Plaza, the Main Library opened in November 2005, replacing the Haydon Burns Library. Designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, the new library is almost three times the size of the Haydon Burns building. The North Laura facility is with the capacity to hold one million books. A 600-space parking garage across from the library building on Duval Street makes the Main Library easily accessible. State-of-the-art technology offers 250 public computers, satellite, and video conferencing capabilities with infrastructure to
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Paris Public Library


The Public Library of Paris, Maine, is located at 37 Market Square in the village of South Paris, Maine. The original portion of its building, a Colonial Revival brick structure built in 1926, was one of the last designs of the Portland architect John Calvin Stevens, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The library is located in a brick building at the northeast corner of Church and Main Streets in South Paris, which is now designated Market Square. It is one story in height
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Great Fire of Turku


city was spared, mainly the western and southern portions. The fire destroyed the downtown area of Turku, including Turku Cathedral and the main building of the Imperial Academy of Turku, Akatemiatalo, which were badly damaged. The disaster was made possible by a dry summer preceding the event, a fire-spreading storm rising on the night of the fire, and a lack of extinguishers because a large number of the city's people happened to be visiting a market in Tampere that day. The damage was considerable and was felt for
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The Confession of Brother Haluin


render perfectly the medieval world of Cadfael's Shrewsbury makes this an essential purchase for libraries. Fans of the series will enjoy this 15th entry of the "Chronicles."-Barbara A. Perkins, Irving P.L., TX Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Also reviewing the 1998 audio book, AudioFile says Altogether a good bet. Peters is the master of the medieval mystery, and any time spent with Stephen Thorne is time well spent. D.G. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine [Published: Aug/Sep 2002] Stephen Knapp
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I District, Turku


The I District is the easternmost of the central districts of Turku, Finland. It is located on the east side of the river Aura, between "Uudenmaankatu" and the Helsinki motorway (Finnish national road 1). The main street Hämeenkatu divides the district in Sirkkala and Universities area, and continues as the national road 10 towards Hämeenlinna. The district hosts all three universities of the city, the University of Turku, Åbo Akademi, and the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration. The city's central hospital TYKS is
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University of California, Berkeley Libraries


top public and third overall university library in North America based on various statistical measures of quality. Charles Franklin Doe was the benefactor of the main library. The Doe Memorial Library, built in 1910, originally housed the main collections. A strictly Beaux-Arts Classical building, it was designed by campus architect John Galen Howard as one of the original structures in the "Athens of the West" campus plan. The library was meant to be the first building students and visitors saw when entering the university, although today most students
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University of Zaragoza Library


nature, while maintaining the decentralization of individual colleges. The process of catalog automation and the development of the digital library took place from 1995 to the beginning of the 21st century. In 1984, the year of the university’s 400th anniversary, the Main Library was relocated to the newly restored and modified building designed by Ricardo Magdalena (an architect and designer native to Zaragoza) that had been built to house the Colleges of Medicine and Science. In 2011, the Main Library, its associated services, and the European Documentation Center
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Lawrence Library


, owner of a local sawmill, donated $15,000 for the construction of the building, which was designed by Lewiston architect William R. Miller, and built in 1900-01 on land donated by Mrs. L. E. Newhall; both Lawrence and Newhall also donated funds to further increase the collection. Miller was a well-known architect with a practice that extended across central Maine; his design, while clearly based on the innovations of architect H. H. Richardson in the style and function of libraries, also exhibits some Beaux Arts features then
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New York Public Library Main Branch


Later that year, British architect Norman Foster was chosen to design the Main Branch's renovation. To pay for the renovations, the New York Public Library was attempting to sell the Mid-Manhattan and Donnell branches, the latter of which had already found a buyer. Nicolai Ouroussoff, architecture critic for "The New York Times", called Foster's selection "one of a string of shrewd decisions by the library that should put our minds at ease". By 2010, while renovations on the Main Branch were ongoing,
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Mansfield College, Oxford


of the Science Area. The grounds are near the University parks and the River Cherwell. The college shares a boundary wall with Wadham College. The main building was designed by architect Basil Champneys, and built between 1887 and 1889. It houses the main college library, the law library and the theology library. It is also home to the college's Junior Common Room, Middle Common Room, and Senior Common Room. The main college building encloses three sides of the large quadrangle, which has a circular lawn. The college
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Stern


called for "fashioning" the after part of the ship. This frame is designed to support the various beams that make up the stern. In 1817 the British naval architect Sir Robert Seppings first introduced the concept of the round or "circular" stern. The square stern had been an easy target for enemy cannon, and could not support the weight of heavy stern chase guns. But Seppings' design left the rudder head exposed, and was regarded by many as simply ugly—no American warships were designed with such sterns
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Gale Memorial Library


The Gale Memorial Library is the public library of Laconia, New Hampshire. It is located at 695 Main Street in a Richardsonian Romanesque building, whose 1901–03 construction was funded by a bequest from Napoleon Bonaparte Gale, a local banker. The building was designed by Boston architect Charles Brigham, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Gale Memorial Library is located on the north side of downtown Laconia, occupying a generous landscaped parcel at the northeast corner of Main and Church streets. The original building is a roughly cruciform
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Redondo Beach, California


Street. In 1928 the Chamber of Commerce recommended a new library be built on the site previously occupied by the Hotel Redondo in what is now Veterans Park. The Veterans Park Library is a Spanish/Dutch colonial building designed by architect Lovel Bearse Pemberton and opened on July 2, 1930. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. After serving as the Main Library for the city for 60 years, a site adjacent to City Hall was identified for a new, modern Main Library building. The new
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Henry D. Moore Parish House and Library


The Henry D. Moore Parish House and Library is an historic library and community meeting hall at 22 Village Road in Steuben, Maine. Built in 1911 and enlarged in 2007, it is a notable local example of a mix of Colonial Revival and Craftsman styles, and is the only known work in Maine of Philadelphia architect Isaac Parsell. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The Moore Parish House and Library is located in Steuben's village center, on the south side of Village Road, between
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