National Library of LatviaRiga, LatviaJuly 2018 Riga in contrast to Bucharest has a lovely old town that did not suffer during the Soviet era (instead it got itself UNESCO listed). The library lies on the other side of the Daugava River. I got a view of the building while waiting a few minutes across the […]
Category: Libraries
Biblioteca Nationala a Romaniei
National Library of RomaniaBucharest, RomaniaApril 2018 Bucharest is a town that’s rather stuck with the Communist architecture of the 80s, yet, if you’re willing to navigate its various side streets you can sometimes find gems of a past era. When I was there I had the good fortune to glimpse the Mănăstirea Antim, a monastery […]
Nielsen Library
Adams State UniversityAlamosa, ColoradoJuly 2019 Isn’t every library in the world named Nielsen Library? Actually this isn’t the case although Smith College in my hometown has the Neilson Library, which when I last saw it looked like nothing more than a Victorian façade and a giant bulldozed ditch as part of Maya Lin’s latest architectural […]