Sujet

British Library, Euston Road, St Pancras, Camden, London, 15/02/1996. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

British Library, Euston Road, St Pancras, Camden, London, 15/02/1996. The British Library taken from the front courtyard at dusk with all the lights on inside the building. Laing Management Contracting were appointed by The Property Services Agency to build the complex at the British Library and construction began in July 1984. In the end the project had a budget of £496 million and was completed in November 1995. The British Library opened to the public in November 1997 and was officially opened by the Queen in June 1998. The site brought together a collection housed across various sites and cut the wait for a book from a possible 4 days down to 20 minutes. The design by the modernist architect Colin St. John Wilson was not widely appreciated at the time but the building was listed at Grade I in 2015. The complex of buildings includes a large entrance hall, humanities and science reading rooms, a theatre, lecture halls and administration offices and 5 levels of storage basements.

Date

1996

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM22A00_380

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

80,9Mo (3,6Mo) / 44,7cm x 45,3cm / 5280 x 5355 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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