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  • AR JUNE 2006

    THE LIBRARY AND THE CITY

    VIEW

    37 Venice Biennale events; Ian Simpson’s Beetham Tower; AR First-Day Covers; Nouvel’s Torre Agbar outrage

    COMMENT

    44 Libraries have reassumed their role as places of learning and civic spirit TREVOR BODDY

    THE LIBRARY AND THE CITY

    46 Library and museum, New York, USA RENZO PIANO BUILDING WORKSHOP
    56 Library, Des Moines, Iowa, USA DAVID CHIPPERFIELD ARCHITECTS
    64 Library, Barcelona, Spain JOSEP LLINAS
    72 Library, Montreal, Canada PATKAU ARCHITECTS
    76 Library, Seattle, USA BOHLIN CYWINSKI JACKSON
    80 Library, Ilhavo, Portugal ARX PORTUGAL

    HOUSE

    84 House, Ketchum, Idaho, USA MARWAN AL-SAYED

    PRODUCT REVIEW

    88 Lighting at Light+Building in Frankfurt and Euroluce in Milan

    REVIEWS

    92 The prefabricated home; Bank of England; Candilis-Josic-Woods; architecture at war
    94 Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939; Harry Seidler remembered; Browser and Diary

    DELIGHT

    98 Floating miniature island in Manhattan, New York, USA ROBERT SMITHSON

    COVER
    46 Library, Des Moines, USA DAVID CHIPPERFIELD ARCHITECTS Photograph by Paul Raftery/VIEW