Surrey City Center Library Landscape

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Geographical Landscape versus Cultural Development: Surrey City Center Library-landscape (Vancouver-China)
It is most common that the landscape type such as hospitals, business malls, churches or even schools conveys a great extent to influencing the cultural developments of the populations that exist in the given region (Jodidio, 118). It is for this reason that this paper has set out to study this amazing phenomenon. The paper bases its study in one of the rising city states of China; Vancouver, from where the great "Surrey City Center Library-landscape" is found. The library is merely a study center yet stands to be a fantastic sphere of focus where it comes to its properly nursed man-made landscape.
One of the most fascinating factors that makes the Surrey City Center Library to be a perfect candidate for this assignment is its ability to unite societies of vast origins and views into a common cultural community. Vancouver is one of the rapidly growing cities in the entire British-Asian regions. Therefore, all sets of rich millionaires and billionaires have set to migrate into this mushrooming future giant-home. Secondly, there is a strong interest to the landscape’s design. Given the sole purpose of a library on one hand, and the other underlying aspects such as the surrounding communities on the other; designing a perfect landscape for this purpose is truly a task. However, BTA managed to utilize both the social media and the most recent technologies to come up with such an outstanding design at an utmost cost (Johnson, 22).
The Surrey City Center Library was designed by the Bing Thom Architects (BTA) who clearly understood the fact that book collection is no more the central focus when it comes to studies. The fact is the current vast advances in technology makes inter-library loans and electronic information the most convenient means of access most of learning material –archived or not. Today, libraries are not only a place for studies only; they are an elementary point of connection which allows the existing communities to meet and interact. Therefore, the only remaining aspect that libraries can offer their users to ensure comfort and maximum use is improving on the architecture or the basic landscape design. Understanding this helped the architects group find a whole new means to satisfy the landscape users. BTA sort to design a landscape that; once and for all, could administer to the social and culture requirements of the surrounding society.
To the outer side, the library occupies approximately 7,600 square miles to which it reflects the warp of the adjacent streets. The external cover of the library is rather contrasting to the inside. Externally, its horizontal sweeping and bulky concrete curves complement the prow-looking gazes. The formation, of course, finishes the landscape in a sinuous flourish. The inside does not bear a dimly-lit atmosphere but rather own an outward looking, clear space with a highly filled book edifice. The library now includes a rich mixture of huge and interconnected ‘high’ spaces. These spaces own a rich set of natural light and set such that each space has some ‘low’ spaces that allow p...