Bibliotheca Alexandrina
2002
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library
Snøhetta won the 1989 UNESCO-sponsored competition to build a new library on the Mediterranean coast near the site of the ancient Library of Alexandria, and the result was the firm's first defining commission. The library is a tilted…
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