8 Bad Ass Libraries
As if books weren’t cool enough by themselves, they go and put them in these awesome buildings.
1. National Library of Belarus - Minsk, Belarus
2. Real Gabinete Portugues Leitura – Rio de Janeiro
3. Seattle Central Library – Seattle, Washington
5. Geisel Library – La Jolla, California
6. Trinity College Library – Dublin, Ireland
7. State Law Library of Iowa- Des Moines, Iowa
8. José Vasconcelos Library – Mexico City, Mexico
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Ireland on a list? MFW!
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Note, please, the number of rungs in the ladder at that level. Good luck.
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The outside was pretty cool too, but I grew up with this entrance to the children's section at Cerritos Library.
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i visit the vasconcelos library often twice a month and its amazing!! i get surprised everytime i go because is a place not common in mexico city, you feel like if you were in a different country
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And yes, #5 is the hospital from Inception. Thank you for noticing.
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Yale has a really cool one too
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I dunno, I prefer the Library (assuming there's no killer shadows or anything…)
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I was lucky enough to live within walking distance of the Seattle Public Library for a time. Such a beautiful building!
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Trinity FTW! All 4 of my siblings are Trinity alumni. (I'm the black sheep who went to art college)
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Louis Kahn's library at Phillips Exeter Academy in NH is fabulous.
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#2 Real Gabinete Portugues Leitura – Rio de Janeiro (I want to live here!)
& 6. Trinity College Library – Dublin, Ireland is a close 2nd. And as for the Vatican library… I'm much more interested in the items that are underneath the Vatican deep in the Catacombs!
