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ROYAL LIBRARY

OD 205, 1973-1982, Bezuidenhoutseweg/Prins Willem Alexanderhof 5, Den Haag

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
OD 205

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Arie Hagoort
P.B.M. van der Meer
Ab Trotz

BUILDING TYPE:
Libraries

Autonomous masses express the various functions of this library housing Holland's largest collection of books. The actual storage area, a substantially blank-walled block, borders on the main library building which has two large wells to illuminate the reading rooms. A maintenance department and a triangular block for allied institutions stand away from the main building leaving pedestrian passages between the blocks. White aluminium panels clad the exterior.