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 * The Salt Lake City Library ​[[image:library-saltlake-city-quiz4.jpg width="239" height="242" align="left"]] **

The Salt Lake City Library is one of the three finalists in a national design competition, designed by Robert Siegel and well known by its Honor Award that recognize the excellence in urban planning, architecture and interior design. This project offers many interesting spaces, generated by its strong façades of curved glass that borders the columns and provides vertical and horizontal circulations.

The circulation is one of the most attractive aspects when we are crossing this library; it offers many types of stairs, elevators and roofs that make of journey a great experience.

About the vertical circulation we can enjoy of some elevators that provides ample views of the site thanks to its walls of glass, also we can find different styles of stairs that make people have different sensations and perceptions of spaces, for example: at the main hall, we can find some flying stairways that jut out from each floor and generate the sensation of being walking on something unstable, also we enjoy of the oval stairway which creates some landings to reduce the risk of falls.

And finally we can also enjoy our journey using horizontal circulations provided by roofs. The roofs are open to the public and guarantee an interesting crossing while we appreciate the beautiful view of the city, landscape and some statues by Chris Coleman that decorate the walkway. The use of roofs in some cases is better because they can make the journey more attractive but it will take more time to get from one place to another in contrast with the stair.





I consider that the Salt Lake City Library is one of the most beautiful architectural designs; the use of different interesting ways to walk inside is not similar to those used on other libraries, it makes of this place a non typical bored library where you can only go to read books and magazines, it also grant the opportunity of have a great experience and get pleasure from the architectural design.

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