Libraries
7 objects documented in this category
Tarnovsky House (Youth Library)
The neo-Gothic single-storey building of the Tarnovsky House initially functioned as a craft school for the nearby orphanage. From 1902, the building housed a museum of Ukrainian antiquities – one...
Regional Library
The design of the Oles Honchar Regional Library was based on an improved version of an earlier project. It was located on a picturesque slope near the bank of the...
Chernihiv Regional Universal Scientific Library named after Sofia and Olexandr Rusov
The building was originally built for the Noblemen’s Land Bank. The architect employed the restrained style of Northern Art Nouveau. The main façade was asymmetrical, with its principal emphasis provided...
Mariupol Central Public Library named after Volodymyr Korolenko
The building was originally constructed to house the first major financial centre in south-eastern Ukraine — the Mariupol branch of the State Bank. Its architecture is dominated by Neo-Renaissance forms....
Novhorod-Siverskyi City Library
The building was originally constructed as a merchant’s residence, with retail shops on the ground floor. It was distinguished by elaborate brick decoration in the so-called “brick style”, combined with...
Sumy State University Library
The three-storey building had a distinctive cubic form. Its ventilated façade was fully clad in aluminium composite panels. Originally, the structure was designed as the region’s first specialised high-tech library...
Toretsk Central City Library
The library was located within the spacious two-storey podium of a standard nine-storey residential building. This architectural solution provided large floor areas with panoramic glazing across the first two levels....