Public library in Pristina
Futuristic library in Kosovo cultural centerPristina's public library seems full of incongruities. The most glaringly obvious is the general appearance of this massive structure. While so many libraries work to bring people inside, Pristina's public library resembles a giant prison, hardly an appealing image to promote literacy.
This building was made on 1986. Covered in a lattice of fence-like metal, the building's windows are actually obstructed, giving views from within the library a captive essence. Designed in the brutalist style, in many ways the library seems to look toward the future. Yet the white domes that top the many sections of the library were built to resemble men's hats of the national outfit, putting the library in the middle of a conflict between tradition and modernity.
Despite many people calling the building one of the ugliest in the nation, it is certainly a unique architectural effort, and captures the spirit of a country recently ravaged by war, and working to move forward and rebuild.
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Category: Outsider Architecture
Location: Pristina, Kosovo
Edited by: atimian, zoranceto