ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1014038/tianjin-library-riken-yamamoto Thu, 03 Jul 2014 02:00:00 +0000 Hana Abdel https://www.archdaily.com/1014038/tianjin-library-riken-yamamoto Tianjin Library, located in the cultural district of the city of Tianjin in China, is a library of a size that is inconceivable in Japan; it has a total floor area of 55,000 square meters and 5 million books. The building is composed of wall beams arranged on a 20.4 m x 20.4 m grid. Each layer of wall beams is displaced 10.2 meters from the one directly below it.

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