Saturday saw us at Magdalen College's newly opened Longwall Library - a most beautiful and impressive building comprising the sensitively and imaginatively reconfigured old library (top left in the picture above) with a new extension and adjacent garden area.
Full of natural light, quiet corners, and comfortable chairs, it felt to me to be the perfect place to study (and a browse in the stacks even turned up some Dorothy Whipple!).
Once the garden has established it would be the place I would head to on a sunny day to lose myself in a book. Lovely to see sympathetic design; so often new meets old head on with starkness and jarring ( well to my eyes anyway.)
Posted by: Fran H-B | 05 July 2016 at 09:19 AM
It's nice to catch 'old and new' working so well together. And stumbling upon Dorothy Whipple during a browse would make me smile.
Posted by: Cosy Books | 07 July 2016 at 04:37 PM
Lovely! And a stack with a Whipple is always a great stack.
Posted by: Resh Susan | 09 July 2016 at 12:05 PM