As the new £189m Library of Birmingham prepares to open, hundreds of people have been testing the building to check it can cope with the hordes waiting to see it. When it opens, the building will ...

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The new library features a rooftop garden and panoramic views of the city Birmingham's new central library has opened at a cost of £189m. But in an era of spending cuts and library closures ...

Birmingham’s bibliophiles will soon be able to browse over 400,000 books in the city’s new library, which opens its doors to the public next week. Designed by Dutch practice Mecanoo Architecten, who ...

Birmingham's museums did not comment on the possibility of opening a new venue. The library is not the only building that is being lost in the Paradise redevelopment. The 150-year-old home of the ...

Tens of thousands of books at a new £190million library cannot be ... to access the high shelves when the state-of-the-art Library of Birmingham opened its doors six months ago.

THE new landmark Library of Birmingham will be ten per cent shorter than planned following complaints that it towered over neighbouring buildings. Architects of the £193 million Centenary Square ...

The Birmingham Public Library spent $4,435 on a six-month national search for a new library director that resulted in no one being hired. No outside search firm was conducted to perform the ...

A community library is to close under plans to transform library services across the Birmingham City Council area. Sutton ...

The new library in Centenary Square was designed by Dutch architects Mecanoo and opened on 3 September 2013. September 1865 - Birmingham's first public library opened to great acclaim ...

"We have just launched this new service in the last few weeks and are seeing its use pick up and be enjoyed by our library users," said Interim library Director Sandi Lee. "The Birmingham Public ...

Dutch studio Mecanoo has completed Europe's largest public library in Birmingham, England, with a sunken amphitheatre, rooftop gardens and a shimmering facade clad with interlocking metal rings ...