Studijní a vedecká knihovna / Educational and Scientific Library in Hradec Králové (East Bohemia) - Libraries on Waymarking.com

Educational and Scientific Library in Hradec Králové is a public universal library. Through its services and holdings the library guarantees the right of equal and unrestricted access to all types of recorded information to all citizens. Educational and Scientific Library is a part of a system of libraries and performs coordination, professional, information, educational, analytical, research, methodical and consultancy activities in conformity with valid legal regulations on providing public library and information services.

Educational and Scientific Library was designed by the Prague-based architectural studio "Projektil architekti". Opened in September 2008, the new library is the result of the winning proposal in an open architectural competition in 2002. It is situated on a river bank in Hradec Králové, near the secondary school building designed by famous Czech architect Josef Gocár (1880-1960).

The five-storey building represents a concrete construction with the final visual in the form of a monolithic concrete façade. The original shape of the building is the precast concrete letter "X". The building is cut through in the parterre. One can walk through the building without entering the institution – library. The building creates an open public urban space, which complies with the ideas of architects about openness of public buildings, as far as architecture is concerned.

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