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Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (BRBL) was a 1963 gift of the Beinecke family. The building was designed by Pritzker Prize creator Gordon Bunshaft of the firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, and is that the largest building within the World reserved solely for the preservation of rare books and manuscripts. It’s settled at 121 Wall Street within the center of the Yale field in metropolis, Connecticut, in Hewitt Quadrangle, that is additional usually spoken as “Beinecke Plaza”.
A six-story above-ground glass-enclosed tower of book stacks is encircled by a windowless rectangular outer shell, supported solely on four huge piers at the corners of the building, that descend fifty feet to bedrock. The outer walls square measure fabricated from semitransparent venose marble panels quarried from Danby, Vermont, that transmit subdued lighting and supply protection from direct daylight. At night, the stone panels transmit light-weight from the inside, giving the outside of the building associate degree amber glow. The skin dimensions have “Platonic” mathematical proportions of 1:2:3 (height: width: length). The building has been referred to as a precious “jewel box”. The building has conjointly been referred to as a “laboratory for the humanities”.
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