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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY LEIDEN
B. VAN KASTEEL, 1976-1982, Witte Singel 27, Leiden
Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden / University Library Leiden ( B. van Kasteel )
© 2006 Rook & Nagelkerke

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Bart van Kasteel

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
C. Duynstee

BUILDING TYPE:
Libraries


RELATED BUILDINGS:
Faculty Buildings Leiden

The language faculty consists of various buildings strung along the water (Witte Singel). In the common facilities block lecture rooms and amenities are ranged along a tall elongated central corridor. The renovated Arsenaal building comprises two linked squares each with an inner court. One inner court has been built in, the other covered with a transparent dome supported by an agglutinated timber structure rising from a single point. Van Kasteel's library and the two faculty buildings by Van Stigt flanking it share the same principles of structure and measurement: round columns whose conical capitals support concrete floor slabs.