Giant Library in Mexico City by Alberto Kalach

Images of the José Vasconcelos Library, completed last year in Mexico City, are increasingly appearing on architecture websites. Its author is the Mexican architect Alberto Kalach, who defeated competitors such as Koolhaas, Eisenman, Chipperfield, and MVRDV in the competition. It is the largest cultural project in the Mexican capital in recent years. Since the library opened, 14,000 readers visit daily. In the metal shelves of the main gallery, 1,750,000 volumes of books are stored in a block that is 91 meters long and 36 meters high. There are also 1,000 computers connected to the internet, and the entire concept of the library is woven with environmentally friendly technologies. Link>