Kanazawa Umimirai Library

Kanazawa Umimirai Library is a public library located in Kanazawa city, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. This is a contemporary building by the Japanese architects Kazumi Kudo and Hiroshi Horiba, completed in 2011.^[1] Its surface creates a decorative grid made of some 6000 small circular blocks of glass which puncture the concrete surface of the building in a triangular array.^[2]

Kanazawa Umimirai Library
金沢海みらい図書館
Location	Kanazawa city, Ishikawa Prefecture,  Japan
Type	Public library
Established	2011
Architect(s)	Coelacanth K&H Architects
Collection
Size	228,000 items
Access and use
Population served	General public

Building

The firm that designed the library, Coelacanth K&H, describe the building as a "simple space"^[3] of 45m by 45m and 12m high. It was completed in March 2011. The floor area is 5,641.9 square metres; the building's area is 2,311.9 square metres. The "single quiet and tranquil room ... resembles a forest, filled with soft light and a feeling of openness reminiscent of the outdoors".^[3]

Prize

Hiroshi Horiba and Kazumi Kudo won a Japan Institute of Architects Prize for the library in 2013.^[4]

Gallery

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See also

• Mathematics and architecture