Bibliothèque Nationale France, French National Library, BnF building photos, Architect design
Bibliothèque Nationale Paris : French National Library Building
Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterand Paris – design by Dominique Perrault
Bibliothèque nationale de France Amiens: BnF
4 Nov 2022
Bibliothèque Nationale de France Building Renewal, 58 rue de Richelieu, Paris 75001
Design: Atelier Bruno Gaudin Architectes
photo © Takuji Shimmura
Bibliothèque nationale de France Richelieu, Paris
23 Oct 2011
Photographs taken in October 2011
Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterand, Paris XIIIe
Design: Dominique Perrault Architects
Bibliothèque Nationale
photographs © Adrian Welch
New Bibliotheque Nationale
Address: 12 quai Panhard-Levassor, Paris XIIIe, France
Date built: 1995
Dominique Perrault, Architects
photographs © Adrian Welch
The largest of Mitterand´s Grand Projets for Paris: formed from four L-shaped corners of a square, 25 storeys tall on the banks of the Seine with a garden in the middle. Simple and powerful building, with a clear programme.
photographs © Adrian Welch
photo © Georges Fessy / DPA / ADAGP
Building on the west side of the Bibliothèque Nationale:
MK2 Bibliotheque, 128 Avenue de France:
photograph © Adrian Welch
Location: 12 quai Panhard-Levassor, Paris, France, north west Europe
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Design: Bernard Tschumi Architects
In July 1988, President François Mitterrand announced the construction and the expansion of one of the largest and most modern libraries in the world, intended to cover all fields of knowledge, and designed to be accessible to all, using the most modern data transfer technologies, which could be consulted from a distance, and which would collaborate with other European libraries.
Book and media logistics inside the whole library was planned with an automated 6.6 km Telelift system. Only with this high level of automation, the library can comply with all demands fully in time. Due to initial trade unions opposition, a wireless network was fully installed only in August 2016. In July 1989, the services of the architectural firm of Dominique Perrault were retained.
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