Austin-Smith: Lord active access to Manchester's John Rylands library
The John Rylands Library, part of the University of Manchester, but also open to the public, has been given a new five-storey extension and public entrance. £ spaced at 12.5 m "Opening the Rylands" is a project architect with Austin-Smith: Lord.
New extension of the abstract elements of neo-gothic 1,900 libraries in the massing and proportion. Dressed in white hand-patinated bronze and concrete panels, the building also reflects the clear expression of the original architecture Basil Champney library.
Building a new three-floor storage provides books, and read the top floor room with views of Manchester. It also provides access to panjat public accessible areas of the historic library, with a dramatic link between old and new.
This project also provides a new exhibition area, accessed through a dramatic glass bridge at least one stairwell in the building. For the conservation aspects of the project, ASL specialist advisers working with Lloyd Evans Pritchard.
Chris Pritchett, partner at Austin-Smith: Lord, said: "I am very proud of the project. He epitomises the attitude Manchester as a modern city that is genuine."
As the third largest academic library in Britain, which contains priceless Rylands Manuscripts, including the oldest living piece of the New Testament. St John Fragment date from 125 AD and discovered in Egypt. This is also for the book printed by William Caxton, and original works by the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell.
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