Hello EASA people,

I come asking for help. In Slovenia, we are currently conducting a crusade (well, we try to be really lound and annoying) against a proposed building for a national and univeristy library. The government wants/wanted to build a project which won a competition in 1989, and it is a frankensteinian, nonfunctional postmodern monster which we do not want in our city.

We are in the process of lobbying for a new competition and want to present case studies from abroad. We need examples of libraries which:

• are in the EU region,
• are national or university libraries (preferably both in one building),
• were built after 1995,
• are the result of a open public (preferrably international) competition,
• and of course are good architecture!

If you can think of any, please share! Examples which we found so far include the Royal Danish Library, Czech National Library (competition), university libraries of Cottbus and Utrecht, Amsterdam public library (although that's a city library, so doesn't quite count).

The point is that we have to convince the ministry that the library is a building of national interest, and has a much larger meaning than just being a place to put books in.

If you think of any libraries, it would be great if you remember / find out who the client (competition promter) was - we want to make contact with them and get more information to persuade the ministry.

Thanks for your help!

Cheers, Boris