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Learning with pleasure. AJ 18.12.97
Publication Year
1997
Document Status
Current
Abstract
New Ruskin Library and an extension to the existing general library at the University of Lancaster. The Ruskin Library, designed to BS 5454 to provide an appropriate environment for its archives, has a curved facade of white concrete blocks with bands of green polished precast concrete. Finance from Heritage Lottery Fund. Cost analysis. Working details of frameless glass facade of the porch. Structural Engineers: Harris & Sutherland. Services engineers: Michael Popper Associates. Lancaster University Library Extension was an exercise in providing high quality space, with a focus on key areas, all within the constraints of Higher Education Funding Council for England [HEFCE] levels of finance. The Reading Room roof is a diagrid of cast in situ concrete beams. Cost summary.
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