ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/460079/andre-parent-cultural-center-olivier-werner-architecte Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Daniel Sánchez https://www.archdaily.com/460079/andre-parent-cultural-center-olivier-werner-architecte Some places have a stronger symbolical potential than others: the plot where the new city equipment was built is one of them.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/356928/library-in-anzin-coulon Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:00:00 +0000 Daniel Sánchez https://www.archdaily.com/356928/library-in-anzin-coulon The building reveals its preciousness at first sight.  Its pure, sophisticated geometry situates it as a public building.  The deliberate areas of transparency reveal its content.  The reading rooms present the building to the town in the manner of an invitation.  The multimedia library is covered with large white veils that reflect the light.  The building asserts it lightness, like an origami.  The successive folds and flaps repeat this image.  It is white, almost immaterial, like the mere projection of a concept, yet it is brimming with the life that constitutes it beyond its physical limits.

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