This Impossible Library Looks The wrong way up [Architecture]

Jan 3rd 2011
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Once I first saw this photo I assumed it was really strange. For some reason, my brain didn’t believe it was real. There’s something impossible about it, as if it’s the other way up in space. Nevertheless it’s real.

It’s the Vasconcelos Library , designed by Alberto Kalach architects, a 410,008-square-foot steel, concrete and glass leviathan in Mexico DF. [ Archdaily ]

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