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derangedbutterfly: Dublin - Trinity College Library by Irish Welcome Tours on Flickr. Aside from being absolutely gorgeous, with two story dark wooden arches, this is also the largest library in all of Ireland. It serves as the country’s copyright library, where a copy of all new books and periodicals must be sent when they apply for copyright protection. The library is also home to the famous Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript created by Celtic monks around the year 800. Two of my favorite things; books and buildings that keep them dry.

derangedbutterfly:

Dublin - Trinity College Library by Irish Welcome Tours on Flickr.

Aside from being absolutely gorgeous, with two story dark wooden arches, this is also the largest library in all of Ireland. It serves as the country’s copyright library, where a copy of all new books and periodicals must be sent when they apply for copyright protection. The library is also home to the famous Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript created by Celtic monks around the year 800.

Two of my favorite things; books and buildings that keep them dry.

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smithsonianmag: America’s Most Iconic Homes In its newest exhibition, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., takes on a topic near and dear to us all: home. Running through the center of the exhibition, which includes actual wall frames and a spread of some 200 quintessential household objects, is a fabulous row of 14 celebrated American houses, reproduced as intricate scale models. Photo: Fallingwater, Model by Studios Eichbaum + Arnold, 2010. Photo by Museum staff. Ed note: Our video on Palladio: America’s architectural grandfather.

smithsonianmag:

America’s Most Iconic Homes

In its newest exhibition, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., takes on a topic near and dear to us all: home.

Running through the center of the exhibition, which includes actual wall frames and a spread of some 200 quintessential household objects, is a fabulous row of 14 celebrated American houses, reproduced as intricate scale models.

Photo: Fallingwater, Model by Studios Eichbaum + Arnold, 2010. Photo by Museum staff.

Ed note: Our video on Palladio: America’s architectural grandfather.

(via theatlantic)

Filed under national building museum design Architecture