Love in the stacks

Lasana and I are both book worms. He loves history and poetry. He also has a massive personal collection of scholarly reads. I have a thing for cookbooks and autobiographies. Right now, this book is dog-eared on my nightstand. Libraries can be such mystical and adventurous places to discover something new. It's even a good place for a date. These libraries are astoundingly beautiful and so inspiring. Could you imagine roaming through the aisles, fingering the spines of the books in these places?

-->                             The Astronomy Library of the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, displays also some historical instruments. 

 

--> The Royal library Black Diamond at the waterfront of Copenhagen owes its name to the black granite 

from Zimbabwe used for the facade of the building. 

 Sendai Mediatheque, designed by Toyo Ito, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt [via]

More bizarre libraries here and here.