UEA Library - Miniature Concrete Model

UEA Library - Miniature Concrete ModelModel 005: UEA Library Miniature Concrete ModelHand cast in fine concrete. Shaped by memory. Some buildings become part of the rhythm of daily life, so familiar, you almost forget how strange and striking they really are. The library at the University of East Anglia is like that. Set beside Denys Lasduns iconic ziggurats, it plays a quieter role on campusbut theres something quietly powerful about it. An elegant gridded stretch of concrete and glass,

part local myth

its future hangs in the balance

Its tiered form and projecting study bays earned it the nickname “The Typewriter”

I worked through several digital iterations to balance the mass of the tower with a simplified fragment of the workshop hall

The Robarts Library at the University of Toronto

It works as a quiet anchor on a shelf or desk

Its sweeping C-shape

or admire it as part of Bradford’s bold architectural story

its prismatic form and water tank crowning the campus edge beside Victoria Park

who won a global design competition

Locally-born Odeon founder Oscar Deutsch had a flat out the back where he stayed when he worked late

UKArchitect: Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith (Sheffield City Council Architects Department)Completed: 1961Status: Grade II* listed