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Location: Minsk, Belarus

Date: 2006

Architect: M.K. Vinogrdov and V.V. Kramarenko

Purpose: Library

Rating: (55 votes, average: 3.60 out of 5)

More info: The National Library of Belarus  is now located in a new 72-metre (236 feet) high building in Minsk, Belarus. The building has 22 floors and was completed in January 2006. The building can seat about 2,000 readers and features a 500-seat conference hall. Its main architectural component has the shape of a rhombicuboctahedron. The library’s new building was opened on 16 June 2006.

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One Response to “The National Library (Minsk, Belarus)”

  1. vijay
    12 August 2010 at 9:13 am #

    Awesome library.I wish to go to visit this atleast once in my life