How do you think an amazing library looks like? When you think to a library, you may think to a common place where large collections of books, digital resources, services maintained by a public or private institution, corporation and so on, a place that for some of us isn’t very attractive and in most cases has nothing special when it comes to design and architecture. But there are of course exceptions of the rule and fortunately these exceptions are met more often today because of the new technology progress and deserves our attention. One exemple of courageous work of architecture is Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, located on the Chicago university’s South Campus which isn’t quite like any major research library that has come before The library is named for Morningstar CEO Joe Mansueto and his wife, University of Chicago alumni who contributed $25 million to support library research.
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