Nice article. One note: > ... [The new National Library] has at its centre what looks like a vast opencast mine, hundreds of feet deep, with scholars and read

Nice article. One note: > ... [The new National Library] has at its centre what looks like a vast opencast mine, hundreds of feet deep, with scholars and readers at rows of desks on every level, hemmed in by walls of volumes. That sounded incredibly impressive, until I found pictures: http://images2.sina.com/english/china/2008/0909/U99P200T1D185180F8DT20080909070804.jpg http://images2.sina.com/english/china/2008/0909/U99P200T1D18... http://www.architecture-page.com/assets/images/content/prj_ksp_nati/3.jpg http://www.architecture-page.com/assets/images/content/prj_k... I think he exaggerates a bit.