Gift of Marshall Cogan and purchase. The Stadsbiblioteket, the main branch of the Stockholm Public Library System, is one of the most distinctive buildings in the Swedish capital. The New Stockholm Public Library will be an urban mediascape where landscape and building, interior and exterior, old and new merge into a single entity. Architecture and Design Contribute. 128 Texas Street San Francisco, CA 94107 +1 415 643 7773 contact@iwamotoscott.com The expansion meets the library with a light structure to preserve the importance of Asplund’s building, while the main portion is placed in the opposite side of the site. With its magnificent, unadorned exterior, Stockholm Public Library is the zenith of Nordic architecture in the 1920s, deriving inspiration from both neoclassical and classical architectural idiom. 35 3/4 x 35 3/4" (90.8 x 90.8 cm). Stockholm Public Library Change this. Its simple geometric design, comprising a … However, since such projects did not appear in popular publication until early 1930:s, Asplund's design seems to be based on other sources. Erik Gunnar Asplund. Public Library, Stockholm, Sweden, Plan of first and second galleries. Nielson, “The Stockholm Library,” page 55 Unknown. Add this. This project is an entry for the 2006 international open design competition for an expansion to Asplund's early modern masterpiece, the Stockholm Public Library Designed by Gunnar Asplund and opened in 1928, the library is a prime example of Nordic Classicist architecture. Description Change this. Comments. Nicolas Adams, Gunnar Asplund’s Gothenburg: The Transformation of Public Architecture in Interwar Europe, Penn University Park, PA: State University Press, 2014, page 112. Accordingly, Stockholm Public Library has been interpreted as "revolutionary architecture" in the tradition of Ledoux and Boullée. The proposal for the Stockholm Public Library by Bundi Pradono Architects at first glance one would not assume was a library at all with its creative design. 48.1990. Stockholm Library Designs. Stockholm Library Sweden, Architecture Contest Images, Designs, News, Project, Building, Shortlist. 1 of 4. Stockholm, Sweden by Gunnar Asplund Change this . Ink on paper. Stuart Knight and Kerstin Nilsson, page 16. In the proposed project, the platform of the Stockholm Public Library is extended in order to create the connection with the new building. Register to join to conversation. The idea for the design is based on a suspended slab set upon two large transparent pilotis, which is quite literally translated into the finished proposal. Add to collection; Watch this article; Add a new article; Related Architecture