Book Tower
Modernist concrete library tower crowned by a belvedere, designed down to its door handles.
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This guide to the Book Tower in Ghent follows Henry van de Velde, a seventy-year-old architect who drew everything down to the light switches, and the university that hired him in nineteen thirty-three. It takes in his quarrel over how tall a library should be, and the occupation years when soldiers moved in before the top floor was finished. Best heard from the street, where you can look straight up at the belvedere.
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