Bibliotheque Nationale

Architect	Henri Labrouste	Subscribers - login to skip ads
Location	Paris, France   map
Date	1862 to 1868   timeline
Building Type	central library
Construction System	bearing masonry, iron columns, terra cotta vaults, truss roof
Climate	temperate
Context	urban
Style	Neoclassical
Notes	Original scheme by Etienne-Louis Boullee, 1785.

"The Reading Room is covered with a series of nine pendentived simple domes of terra-cotta, supported by twelve slender columns of iron, aranged in four rows, the outer columns standing close to the walls."
— Sir Bannister Fletcher, A History of Architecture, p1206.