The Tianjin Binhai Library, Tianjin, China ... It's nicknamed "The Eye". Winy Maas, Co-founder of MVRDV: "The angles and curves are meant to stimulate different uses of the space, such as reading ...

Anybody who laments the decline of the public library should look to Tianjin, China ... Nonetheless, Binhai Library remains one of China’s buzziest new attractions, which could help improve ...

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Opened in 2017, the sweeping curves of the Tianjin Binhai Library flow around a central glowing spherical auditorium. Take a step back and it looks a bit like an eyeball nestled in an eye socket ...

A continuous curved seating, a stream of undulating shelving housing 2,00,000 books, and a spherical auditorium at the centre that watches over the 33,700-square-metre space like a luminous, ...