Grande Bibliothèque du Québec (Montréal, Canada) : Curtain wall, detail
- Creator:
- Croft Pelletier Architectes, Canadian architectural firm, active ca. 2001-2005
Menkès Shooner Dagenais Architectes, Canadian architectural firm, founded 1961
Patkau Architects, Canadian architectural firm, founded 1983 - Published/Created:
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
2001-2005 - Physical Description:
- 350,000 ft2 (area)
- Date Depicted:
- 2008
1950 AD - 2010 AD - Materials:
- steel; glass; copper; wood
- Notes:
- The Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec is a 350,000 sq ft central library for the province of Québec. Located in the Latin Quarter of Montréal, the building consists of general collections, an historic Québec collection, and a variety of public spaces including a lecture theatre, café, 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.
- Topics:
- Architecture -- Canada -- 21st century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Twenty-first century
- Culture:
- Canadian
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-PAR-BANQ-A26
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
libraries (buildings) (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- architecture; contemporary (1960 to present); Education; libraries Twenty-first century buildings; libraries (buildings)
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Addition Module Five
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
2008 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4090
- OID:
- 10054823
- PID:
- digcoll:1839456