{"id":145,"date":"2007-10-15T19:12:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T00:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/?p=145"},"modified":"2007-10-15T19:16:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T00:16:57","slug":"library-in-goo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/2007\/10\/library-in-goo\/","title":{"rendered":"Library, in Goo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdonline.co.uk\/story.asp?storycode=3082843\">Future System&#8217;s winning design for the new National Library in Prague<\/a>, to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdonline.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=426&amp;storycode=3082778&amp;featurecode=11853&amp;c=1\">built in Letna Park in Old Town<\/a>.  The Czechs already know what it&#8217;s like to have an <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/woodrowone\/449620074\/\">out-of-place modern design<\/a> dropped into the existing cityscape, and I don&#8217;t think the result garners much affection (although that example carries Communist baggage along with it as well). <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/purplecloud\/573911858\/\">Fred and Ginger<\/a> have made quite a success for themselves, but I think you can argue that Gehry&#8217;s addresses and embraces the surrounding architecture, rather than completely disassociating itself from it.<\/p>\n<p>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarian.net\/stax\/2145\/weirdest-library-design-evar\/\">Librarian.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future System&#8217;s winning design for the new National Library in Prague, to be built in Letna Park in Old Town. The Czechs already know what it&#8217;s like to have an out-of-place modern design dropped into the existing cityscape, and I don&#8217;t think the result garners much affection (although that example carries Communist baggage along with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/2007\/10\/library-in-goo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Library, in Goo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}