The library and its garden
A library planned around the care of books
A city of port routes and kept books
A sixteenth-century official carried a collecting habit across his career. The library he built in Ningbo turned that personal pursuit into a structure meant to outlast him.
Follow the building, its collection and the spaces around it.
A pond, a long roof and a wooden bookcase show how the library was meant to be used and protected. The garden helps visitors read the building as a place for books, not just an old facade.
Read the storyA city of port routes and kept books
Read water, walls and bookcases as parts of one design.
A city of port routes and kept books
A library planned around the care of books
