Hotel In Tokyo Created As An ‘Accommodation Bookshop’
Tokyo is known for its eccentric architecture and customs, yet one new hotel has rivalled them all. The Book and Bed Tokyo hotel, which opened its welcoming doors to people looking for a good read and nap in November 2015, is a dedicated haven for readers. The hotel has been imagined by Makoto Tanijiri and Ai Yoshida, designed around the concept of the blissful moment of falling into a deep sleep that only a good story can do.
Photographer Vincent Laforet stepped out onto the skids of a helicopter at an altitude of 10,800 feet to capture these views of Las Vegas, which he felt looked more like Tron, Bladerunner, a computer motherboard, “or a memory chip from the air.“
There is an essence of timelessness when it comes to libraries and books. Even with the modern marvels of human technology, e-books, audio books, libraries have still preserved the atmosphere of exercising and feeding the human mind with rich text and pages of storytelling. These great feats of architecture we have featured below are the integration of great design and the age old love of ancient yellow pages that have the history of the world etched in them.
The priceless treasure trove of great minds, dreamers and scholars are documented in these buildings which have been designed and built with great care in order to make them stand forever as a monument over these articles of importance like no other.
The libraries below have become an enduring tribute to impeccable design; the best décor and space construction, and art are ingrained into the floors and ceilings and wood panelling. Some of these studies have been built to attract not only readers eager to ponder over pages of food for thought, but to keep the spirit of young minds eager to see the enchanting presence of a library no digital book can recreate.
When that unique smell of worn out books, dust mingled with sunny afternoons wafts through the stone cracks of these majestic structures, people once again are transported back to the classic charm of an intimate moment spent with a satisfying story in the solitude of a hall crammed with books to the ceiling.
The National Library Of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Biblioteca Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
The Admont Library, Admont, Austria
George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, Usa
St. Florian Monastery, Austria
Bibliothèque Nationale De France, Paris, France
Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-generaal Den Haag Iii, Netherlands
Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria
Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbra, Portuga
The City Libary, Stuttgart, Germany
The Iowa State Law Library, Iowa, USA
The Oberlausitzische Library Of Science, Gorlitz, Germany
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, Connecticut, USA
The Old Public Library Of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève, Paris, France
New York Public Library
Walker Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Vennesla Library, Vennesla, Norway
Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris, France
St John’s College Library, Cambridge, UK
The Library Of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA
Technical University “gheorghe Asachi” Library, Iasi, Romania
The Great Library Of The Reformed Church College Of Sarospatak – Sarospatak, Hungary
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