The main steel structure of Shanghai library has been capped today

A readable building, shaped like a piece of uncut jade in the midst of an urban forest."After nearly two years of construction, the east library of Shanghai library, located in the sub-center of huamu city in pudong new area, completed its main steel structure this morning, making a solid step towards the goal of completion by 2020.

As "much starker choices-and graver consequences-in" Shanghai cultural facilities construction of major projects, above the east pavilion is located in the pudong new area of winter jasmine, meadow, jinxiu road and century avenue to surround close into the forest, north near pudong civic center, century park in the south, covers an area of 39500 square meters, a total construction area of 115000 square meters, 50 meters high, the ground seven floors, underground 2 floors.The whole building is like a piece of jade being carved. The facade glass presents different levels of transparency through the advanced 3D colored glaze printing technology, just like the natural changing texture of the marble stone surface.The interior of the building pursues international quality with simple and natural style. The lighting atrium with split-level connection is fully surrounded by wood color grille, which is broad and open. Four core tubes and 28 pillars are decorated with fair-faced concrete, to feel warm and harmonious.Through the expression of space language, a human-oriented, scientific and reasonable, open and flexible, ecological and environmental protection, connectivity of the future public library, emerging.

Chen chao, director of Shanghai library, said that the new generation of physical library will upgrade from a place for collecting books and reading to a place for providing tools and space, creating a "knowledge exchange community" that encourages wisdom, exchanges, innovation and inclusiveness, and becoming a "study, living room and studio" for citizens to enjoy.Above after completion of the east pavilion will highlight "reading culture center, knowledge exchange center and decision-making consultation, a think-tank, technical experience centre, international exchange platform" five big functions, such as providing readers books reading position nearly 6000, total open-shelf collection of about 4.8 million copies, satisfy each year more than 200 lecture, thousands of demand for readers of all kinds of academic activities, a reader in the event of up to 4 million m, is expected to open trial operation in 2021.