Design
More Libraries Should Have Indoor Gardens
A French redesign of a train station would put in bookshelves, grass, and palm trees.
Imagine digesting your favorite author under bright, blue skies and bushy palm trees. Now imagine doing it while you’re still inside the library—that’s the vision of Pierre Ciret’s soothing garden for books in Nice, France.
The interior designer whipped up the bucolic bibliotheca as a conceptual revamping of a train station on Avenue Thiers. He explains the experiment on Archilovers (via Google Translate):