On a Saturday afternoon in warm and sunny September, when every cell of your body is painfully aware that this is the last fragment in the summer, there are few things that may persuade you to retreat into a dark and shady. The beauty of the library
Selexyz Maastricht is one of those things.
The Dominican church of the end of 1300 the brothers was confiscated during the French occupation in 1794. Since then it has been used before for military purposes, then as a municipal archive, store, bike store, reptile (sic), until it was renovated in 2005 to meet the demands of Boekhandels Groep Nederland. The project, completed in 2007, he has won many awards in the world of interior design and successfully manages the need for a suitable exhibition space and the limits imposed by respect for the original structure. The shelves are in harmony with the flying buttresses of the time making a piece of furniture rather than a burden to the eye. And ensure the stability of the building remained detached from the walls and unloading the weight only to the ground.
that housed the choir apse there is a quiet coffee with modern furnishings and a long table who once climbed the shelves out to be in the shape of a cross.
The library obviously has a wide selection of books in Dutch, but there are many titles of historic or scientific literature that are sold in their original language: English. The volumes of fiction in the original language, English, French, German and English, color the shelves for at least 20 meters, there is only spoiled for choice.
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