![]() ![]() It’s the city’s gift to them,” says Chris Hardie, design director, and chief architect for Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects. “This important cultural center for the citizens of Shanghai embraces the idea of ‘collection to connection’-a space to bring people together. ![]() The library’s primary function as a center of art, culture, and technology-driven learning reflects the modern library’s rapidly changing raison d’être.Īt the same time, its allusion to classical Chinese scholarship-the building’s form conjures the scholar’s rock of the ancient literati-anchors it in tradition. Designed by Chris Hardie and his team at Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects (SHL) together with local architects Arcplus, Shanghai Library East is one of the largest new libraries in the world. ![]()
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