The Black Diamond (Danish: Den Sorte Diamant) is a modern seaside extension for the old Royal Danish Library building at Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen, Denmark. His semi-official nickname is a reference for his polished black granite coating and irregular angle. Designed by Danish architect Schmidt Hammer Lassen, Black Diamond was completed in 1999 as the first in a series of large-scale cultural buildings along the waterfront of Copenhagen.
Apart from its function as a library, it has a number of other public facilities and activities, mostly located around the central atrium, which cut into the building with a large glass front facing the harbor. Facilities include a 600-seat auditorium, Queen's Hall, used for concerts - especially chamber music and jazz - literary events, theater and conference shows. There are also exhibition halls, bookstores, restaurants, cafes and a rooftop terrace. Two museums are headquartered in Black Diamond, the National Museum of Photography, and a small museum dedicated to cartoon art.
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History
In the early 1990s, the Danish Ministry of Culture launched an international architecture competition for the design of the extension to the Royal Library in Slotsholmen. The competition attracted 178 Danish and international architecture companies and finally Schmidt Hammer Lassen was selected as the winner in 1993.
Construction began in 1995. The cost of construction is DKK 465,000,000. The Ministry of Culture is the builder and Moe and BrÃÆ'¸dsgaard A/S consultant engineer.
The Black Diamond was inaugurated on September 7, 1999 and opened to the public on September 15, 1999. Culture Minister at the time, Jytte Hilden, named it Black Diamond.
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Architecture
The basic shape of the Black Diamond is a left-leaning box as seen from the harbor and toward the water. At the same time it expands slightly from below and upward and from north to south, giving it a distorted and prismatic shape.
The building is coated in black granite of a type known as Absolute Black, which is mined in Zimbabwe and then cut and polished in Italy. The black cladding totals 2,500 square meters and each stone weighs 75 kg.
A wide and glossy "gap" splits the facade in half, letting natural light into the central atrium inside the building. A glass band also runs along the ground floor of the building in full height to allow a seaside view from the inside while, at the same time, aims to give Diamond floating appearance when viewed from the water.
The Black Diamond is separated from an old building, known as the Holm Building, by busy Christian Brygge busy street that runs along the shore. Some skyways connect two buildings.
Atrium
In contrast to the hard and dark exterior of the atrium creates a bright and organic central space in the library. It is toplit and limited by choppy balconies. From the atrium, a travelator leads to a level C that holds the main library facility.
Link
The Link is the connecting road that flows from the foyer of the old library's main building through the skywalk over Brygge Christians and the atrium along the alley to a glass facade with views of Christianshavn and Islands Brygge across the harbor.
Library facility
The main floor of the library is the level C reached from the ground floor along the travelator. With the Black Diamond development, the Royal Library in Slotsholmen has gained 21,500 square meters and now has six reading rooms compared to one reading place and 474 compared to 96 before the extension. The Information Room holds 60 seats compared to the previous 46.
Kirkeby-broen
The circulation table is located on an 18-meter-wide main ceiling connecting old and new buildings above Christian Brygge.
The Royal Library in Slotsholmen is not a public library where it is possible to search and select books from open shelves and then borrow them for use outside the library. Instead, books must be ordered either through online or by filling out a request list form in the catalog room. The books can then be collected the next day.
Reading room
Reading rooms on level C to F all face the atrium that gives them natural light. Each reading room consists of a double-height room with a projecting mezzanine floor.
The purpose of the Western Reading Room is to allow users to study materials from a limited library collection on-site, and to create a large reference collection available to them. There are 160 study seats in the reading room and it is possible to get a permanent seat for a certain time on the application. The reference collection comprises a total of 65,000 volumes distributed on two floors. The emphasis of the collection is on the humanities and theology but all the subject areas of the library are closed. This room has a special, secure area where protected materials can be learned. It is possible to register a permanent study chair for the specified period.
The East Reading Room has 130 study seats and its main purpose is to provide access to a large number of newspapers and magazines and, at the same time, to provide a large number of study chairs for other purposes. Publications three years earlier from 4,000-3200 foreigners and 800 Danish - periodicals kept alphabetically along the shelves. There are 70,000 microfilm rolls from both Danish and foreign newspapers. It is impossible to learn limited materials in this reading room. Target groups are students and others, requiring knowledge at a high level.
The remaining two reading rooms in Black Diamond are from the Center for Maps, Prints and Photos and Music and Theater Center.
Queen's Hall
The Queen's Hall is an auditorium that can accommodate up to 600 people. It is used for a variety of purposes, including concerts, conferences, movies, ballet and theater. The hall is equipped with a variable acoustic system that adapts to a particular type of music. Thus the sound is adapted to a greater furor, with a longer echo for classical music and a shorter echo for rhythmic music.
Concert
The Queen Hall is primarily intended as a place for classical music, especially space, but also jazz and other rhythmic musical forms played there.
The library has its own live music ensemble known as the Diamond Ensemble which is often followed by international guest musicians. This repertoire includes an "exhibition concert" of music from the Royal Library's largest archive of music, the largest in the Nordic State.
Another concert has been with Trio con Brio and Niels Lan Doky.
International Writer Stage '
The Queen's Hall is also used for lecture programs by prominent international writers and intellectuals. Upcoming or previous speakers include Uwe Tellkamp, ​​Martin Walser, GÃÆ'¼nter Wallraff, Ingo Schulze, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lars Saabye Christensen, Ben Okri, Juli Zeh, GÃÆ'¼nter Grass, Salman Rushdie, Siegfried Lenz, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Per Olov Enquist, KristÃÆ'n Marja BaldursdÃÆ'³ttir, Einar MÃÆ'¡r GuÃÆ' Â ° mundsson, Julia Franck, Slavoj? I? Ek, Seierstad, Seoferst, Kofi Annan, Caitlin Moran, Siri Hustvedt, Paul Auster, and Alaa Al Aswany.
Exhibition
The Black Diamond has two main exhibit areas. The larger of the two is Peristyle (Denmark: SÃÆ'¸jlehallen) covering 600 square meters and located at level K. It hosts various cultural and historical exhibits, including those hosted by the National Museum of Photography. The other, Montana Hall, was created in 2009 and serves as a library treasury. This is where the rarest pieces of national heritage are on display.
National Museum of Photography
National Cartoon Art Museum
The Danish Cartoon Art Museum is located at level B with what is called the Corridor Gallery which serves as a museum exhibition space. Larger exhibitions - where there is usually one year - are held in the exhibition area at level K. The museum figures under the Center for Maps, Prints, and Photos. The first major exhibition consisted of drawings by Danish artist Bo Bojesen.
Artwork
Kirkeby fresco
The Danish artist Per Kirkeby has created an unlimited 210-square-foot fresco at the entrance to the lending and reading room at level C. This painting is one of the largest ceiling trimmings in the Nordic countries and takes more than a year for Per Kirkeby. complete. Implemented in oil, colorful and organic paintings create striking contrasts with minimalist surroundings and adjacent cleavage in glass and steel.
Catalog sound decoration - Music in One
Catalog (English: Catalog) is a piece of music composed specifically for Black Diamond by Danish composer Fuzzy as a new artistic decor. It consists of electroacoustic composition, about three minutes, for every week of the year. Everyday at 1 pm, the compositions are broadcast in the atrium via a permanent installation based on a computerized 12-channel loudspeaker system, where each loudspeaker can be programmed individually. Four loudspeakers are installed in the ceiling each of the three levels of the balcony.
With each of the 52 compositions inspired by one of the library's treasures, either manuscripts, photographs, books, or a piece of music, it is intended as a reward and promotion of library collections and at the same time as an opportunity for users to search from their books and rest.
See also
- Danish Architecture
- List of concert halls in Copenhagen
References
External links
- Official website
- The concert in Black Diamond
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