This is Oslo’s new PUBLIC LIBRARY. It’s unbelievable. Completely free, open to everyone until 10pm every day. There is a wine bar. Views to die for. All the books.

Oct 12, 2021 · 11:45 AM UTC

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It’s full of study spaces and reading nooks, places you can eat your lunch & charge your phone. Borrow books, music, films, etc.
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Last night it was packed.
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Here's the Little Free Library @AvenueFree in @_AnnaBlight's front garden 💜📚 Every little helps.
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Love this! Thanks for sharing!
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Liverpool’s library is spectacular and a great public space- the old and the new. You can also gaze on Audubon’s ‘Birds of America’ £7-8 million if you’d like to buy!
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Christchurch NZ has a similar library. One of the best things to come out of the earthquakes . Books, hang out sudden, maker spaces, cafes, a rooftop garden...#turanga
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Does it light up though?! National Library at Minsk, Belarus...
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This is the library I grew up in: the PA State Library in Harrisburg. A forest of books.
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In cold countries, the importance of big, open well lit indoor spaces cannot be stressed enough.
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Nice! Here’s our beautiful Lexicon 📚 @dlrLexIcon Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.
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Wine and books?!?!? Heaven…..
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Replying to @CatJarman @lewis_goodall
Plus Norway has an entirely sensible arrangement with the EU with none of the problems the UK has. They were driven by pragmatism not Brexit dogma.
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Here’s the Dokk1 library in Aarhus, Denmark, also quite nice
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Replying to @CatJarman @Colin_TBTAMC
Lovely. I’d like to give a shout out for Scotland’s Dunfermline & Carnegie library/gallery/museum/cafe much much smaller of course but the same features (shuts earlier) & it is also an architectural gem, sitting next to the Cathedral. richardmurphyarchitects.com/…
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This is the public library here in Aarhus, Denmark. Also completely free, full of study spaces and reading nooks, and a beautiful sea view.
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Got to pop on and add a picture othe Central Library @calgarylibrary . Opened in 2018 - she's a beauty!
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Replying to @CatJarman @halvorson
Looks lovely. If you're ever in Amsterdam, they have a very similar set-up there.
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Holy cow. Where Is this heavenly place 😩
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Stunning! Oh my, I hope I can return to wonderful Oslo before too much longer...
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@EmmanuelCAdigwe
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Lord!
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It seems to a good rule of thumb that the nicer the library building and accessories, the worse the book collection.
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I would live there!
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@JUSTADACHI @JaliyyahBello 🥰
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Wow 🥰
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@hellobard UM YOU KEPT THIS QUIET
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this is gorgeous omds
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love this, reminds me a bit of the one in Vancouver
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Amsterdam's is fantastic, too, in similar ways. And on a much smaller scale Southwark's Canada Water... google.com/search?q=canada+w…
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Love it. The Opera, just in front, is pretty nice too, and there are a couple of nice places to eat and drink by the station or Bjørvika plus the bathing areas and saunas by the fjord. OSL🖤
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Super cool space-
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Yeah it looks cool. But it's not a patch on Dublin central library. The décor is a shabby chic mash-up of carpeted doctor's waiting room with your old school library for nostalgia's sake. Few computer relics thrown in for vintage appeal too.
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I think Edmonton public library is bigger and the same in excellent experience
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Liverpool’s Central Library is pretty spectacular as well. And books too, of course.
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Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart, Germany
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This is one public library in Vancouver, no wine bar but still stunning. I love the open space and use of light which is crucial in a cold country with low light like Vancouver where it invariably rains.
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