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Library · Historic precedent

Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève

Henri Labrouste · Paris, France · 1850

Key featuresUpper-floor reading room with slender cast-iron columns carrying iron arches, left visible.

Architect
Henri Labrouste
Place
Paris, France
Year
1850
Typology
Library
Movement
Historic precedent
Region
Europe
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