Some good news from Preston

[MrGongGong]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-24202923

(Shame that the "Old" Birmingham library hasn't been though )

[Serial_Apologist]

A concrete solution.

[MrGongGong]

A concrete solution.

And this arrived in the post this morning

http://thewire.co.uk/shop/books/in-search-of-a-concrete-music-by-pierre-schaeffer.translated-by-christine-north-and-john-d

(cue x files music ...........)

[teamsaint]

Brilliant news.
Occasional rays of hope in a crazy world.

[french frank]

I don't know why it's termed the brutalist style of architecture - nasty name for something so beautiful.

[Serial_Apologist]

I don't know why it's termed the brutalist style of architecture - nasty name for something so beautiful.

I think the term better describes the South Bank apart from the Royal Festival Hall: Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room/Queen Elizabeth Hall, National.

[amateur51]

(Shame that the "Old" Birmingham library hasn't been though )

I paid a visit to the 'new' Birmingham library last week. It's very impressive visually, lots of colour, lots of escalators, glass but I don't think it's anywhere near operating yet. It felt like it's a concept of the library of the future but they haven't installed it yet.

The "Old" Birmingham library looks very much like the Camden Library on Euston Road which was built around the same time, I think. It was a lovely place to work but I guess not designed to be infotech friendly. It is now an hotel

[Serial_Apologist]

The "Old" Birmingham library looks very much like the Camden Library on Euston Road which was built around the same time, I think. It was a lovely place to work but I guess not designed to be infotech friendly. It is now an hotel

Well I never!!!

I remember visiting there in the early 70s when CL exhibited a, for the time, controversial exhibition of new work by women artists. One was a large oil painting by Monika Schoo, if I've spelt her name correctly, whom I knew at the time, depicting God as a woman giving birth to Man, whose head is seen protruding underneath, so to speak. It was the first exhibit facing the public on the main staircase going up to the event, and got the Daily Wail all steamed up, I remember.

[ahinton]

And there I was, looking at the thread topic and thinking that it meant that it had been decided that Richard III would be buried there (albeit not in the library); ah, well...