BINGLIN LIBRARY ( Lotus Library )SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY DUSHU LAKE CAMPUS Suzhou Jiangsu china

 

             Image captured 24/10/2013 

BINGLIN LIBRARY  located at SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY, DUSHU LAKE campus , suzhou , Jiangsu , china. It is also known as Lotus Library  because in Ariel view it looks like lotus in such a way it was constructed .




  ARIEL VIEW 

While surffing internet i found From a website pdf named "SCONUL Focus 48 2009 under topic ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA  found that 

" Binglin library opened in year 2006 SEPTEMER and is one of four serving 

Soochow University. It is around 32,000 m2

 in size 

and houses 70,000 items. "



Source: https://www.sconul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/17_7.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi9sbje2r77AhWXTmwGHYa9BSk4ChAWegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw3vdylWGt4Ucp59-sGGwfV7 

Height of LIBRARY is 40 metre .



It has  total  8 floors above ground and a basement level. It includes a general library, a consultation desk, a coffee bar, a showroom, a reading room, and an office area. , can collect 750,000 books.

The library is designed by the Architectural Design Institute of Tongji University in Shanghai. The appearance of the library is unique, it is in the form of a lotus petal, and more than two stories are empty in the atrium. The entire building adopts an advanced intelligent management system that fully controls the integration and management

Source : http://www.bewellstone.com/news/8.html




               Inside library from 1st floor

Image source : https://chanwengkit1996.blogspot.com/2018/06/day-645.html?m=1

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