The vast LocHal library and events space, designed by Amsterdam-based studio Civic Architects, occupies a former glass and steel locomotive shed in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Located in Tilburg's ...
Winner: Rebirth project of the year 2019. The vast LocHal library and events space, designed by Civic Architects, Inside Outside, Braaksma & Roos Architectenbureau and Mecanoo, occupies a former ...
At LocHal, you can learn new food skills, read books, or hold events inside a massive retired locomotive storage warehouse. After spending more than 80 years as a warehouse for locomotive engines, a ...
The practice has transformed a former train depot in the Dutch city of Tilburg into a spacious multipurpose library, writes Fran Williams. Photography Stijn Bollaert ‘It’s considered one of the ...
The LocHal Public Library in Tilburg, Netherlands, has been named as the World Building of the Year for 2019. The library was designed by architects Braaksma & Roos Architectenbureau, and Inside ...
“The spatial design suits the idea of an open and productive work area. Next to ‘retrieving knowledge’ the LocHall will be equipped for ‘making knowledge’ and for co-creation,” explain CIVIC ...
The LocHal redefines the library typology. It has already been coined ‘the next big thing in public libraries’ by experts. While keeping traditional ‘book consumer’ facilities, the new library also ...
LocHal, the largest, has now become an exemplar for others, its ‘stair landscape’ and ‘stage’ concepts now being incorporated elsewhere. This approach, derived from the Midden-Brabant Library’s ...