A new library for the city and canton St. Gallen is to be built at the Union\/Blumenmarkt location in the city of St. Gallen, replacing the current temporary and decentralised facilities. In the future, the cantonal and city libraries are to be merged operationally and spatially. Within the framework of a competition, designs were developed for a modern library equipped to meet the requirements of the future in the sense of a “public library”, which combines the diverse services and uses under one roof in a synergy-rich and functionally coherent manner.<\/p>\n
The project proposal<\/a> developed by E2A Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert Architects<\/a> in collaboration with L\u00fcchinger+Meyer was awarded 2nd place. The designers chose “Guy Montag” as the project’s title and powerful symbolic companion. The main character from Ray Bradbury’s famous novel “Fahrenheit 451” discovers the “forbidden” love of literature in a totalitarian system and becomes a preserver and defender of books. The design of the very same name provides for the “welcome strategy of preserving and upgrading the main and wing buildings of the Union Building”. This will be accompanied by an eight-storey, tower-like new building that integrates a variety of the desired uses.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new library for the city and canton St. Gallen is to be built at the Union\/Blumenmarkt location in the city of St. Gallen, replacing the current temporary and decentralised facilities. In the future, the cantonal and city libraries are to be merged operationally and spatially. Within the framework of a competition, designs were developed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101013,"featured_media":19601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19667,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665\/revisions\/19667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}