Sainte Geneviève Library
Henri Labrouste
- Outline
- The exterior is a Neo-Renaissance masonry structure, but the interior is a space of light cast-iron columns and arches on a two-corridor plan. The flat plaster ceiling accentuates the beauty of the delicate framework. Labrouste also designed the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (1875), which was also built of cast iron, but developed into a space with a series of pendent domes.
- Location
- France
- Journal
- Shinkenchiku 2025:08
- Related Link
- Shop
- Special Link
- Matrix of 100 Years of Architecture(The 100th Anniversary of Shinkenchiku)
- Category
- Iron and Glass
- Next Categories
- Aesthetics of Function
- Decade
- pre 1920
- Thema