As described by BIG: The National Library is conceived as the integration of 4 organizational strategies into one new national institution:
– The perfect circle of the national archives
– The orbiting spiral of the public spaces
– The complex geometry of the Möbius envelope
– The radially distributed section of the Kazakh landscape
Project: Kazakhstan Presidential Library in Astana
Client: Astana Municipal Administration
Collaborators: Arup AGU
SIZE: 45,000 M2
Location: Astana, KZ
Status: 1st Prize
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