Buildings

Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville, Caen by OMA

By 2017-02-01T08:00:00

OMA Caen library

Source: Philippe Ruault

With its regular glazed facades and cruciform shape, the northern French city’s new library  is surprisingly understated for an OMA project. But as you would expect from the Dutch practice, there are some clever architectural manoeuvres at play – as Ike Ijeh finds out

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