The hollow beneath houses the library. A cone, the symbol of technology, pierces the library and the landscape, affixing them like a pushpin. With a grass-covered roof, high-performance glazed facades and subterranean storage for heating and cooling, the building reaches high standards of …

2017年3月16日 · The Van den Broek & Bakema auditorium sits like a huge frog in the green grass. The vast lawn is lifted on one edge like a sheet of paper and shapes the roof of the new library. The grass...

The enormous cone symbolises technology and providing room for the round, introvert study spaces. The immense book wall, stretching from ground level up to the fourth floor, is not only functional, but also gives the building a unique look. Thanks to the insulating grass roof, the Library is actually not only a building, but also a landscape

2024年8月2日 · The grass roof. Two autobiographies of early childhood and young manhood days in Korea at the beginning of the 20th century. Showing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions? The grass roof. Add another edition? Autobiographical. xvii, 377 p.

2019年3月6日 · With a grass-covered roof, high-performance glazed facades and subterranean storage for heating and cooling, the building reaches high standards of sustainability. The entrance affords a glimpse of the sunken book stacks for rare and irreplaceable books.

Told from multiple perspectives and spanning several decades, Grass Roof, Tin Roof begins with the story of Tran, a Vietnamese writer facing government persecution, who flees her homeland during the exodus of 1975 and brings her two children to the West. Here, she marries a Danish American man who has survived a different war.

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2010年11月16日 · Reprint of the 1966 ed. of book one of Kang's work published by Follett Pub. Co., Chicago. Originally published in 1931 by Scribner, New York. The second work is a reprint of the 1956 ed. of Li's work published by Michigan State University, East Lansing.

2023年2月3日 · Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. ... Biodiversity Heritage Library; Books by Language; Additional Collections; Video. TV News Understanding 9/11. Featured. ... The Grass Roof by Younghill Kang. Publication date 1951 Collection ...

The library has a 5,500 m2 sloping grass roof, one of the first grass roofs built at this scale. However, the multifunctional use of space for which this grass roof was designed turned out to be a cause of various leaks after a short time.