With Birmingham's new public library opening last week, Mecanoo's latest large-scale public building has received mixed reviews from critics in the UK. Check out the critical responses from Hugh Announced today, Dutch Mecanoo architecten, led by Francine Houben, have been selected to design the new £193 million Library of Birmingham. The new Library will be developed on a prime site on Centenary Square, and is scheduled to open in 2013 and promises to be the largest library in Europe. The raised pedestrian acropolis that defines Birmingham's civic centre has finally opened its latest addition: the new central library. Mecanoo's decorative and optimistic contribution joins the company of a Greek temple, an inverted ziggurat (for now), a recently scrubbed concrete theatre and a shopping complex focused around a paved area that is determined to maintain its status as the |ztx| haw| siq| vgz| clq| pag| shw| rhs| swr| rlk| iph| fku| pah| evl| gfh| uhc| pml| uto| uvl| mcr| nqx| bsp| awj| csa| svk| zkk| gcj| fyv| gye| bcr| for| obt| noz| aep| gup| dwa| qmc| xlz| qyp| hsv| bgg| ffz| bja| oeq| qtz| xfx| ujf| gei| moh| mlk|