Kanazawa Umimirai Library, Kanazawa

Name: Kanazawa Umimirai Library
Address: 1-1 I, Jichumachi, Kanazawa, 920-0341, Japan
Telephone: +81 76-266-2011

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Kanazawa Umimirai Library is a public library located in Kanazawa city, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. This is a contemporary building by the Japanese architects Kazumi Kudo and Hiroshi Horiba, completed in 2011. Its surface creates a decorative grid made of some 6000 small circular blocks of glass which puncture the concrete surface of the building in a triangular array. ()

Local name: 金沢海みらい図書館 Established: 2011 (14 years ago)Coordinates: 36°35'39"N, 136°36'14"E

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1-1 I, JichumachiKanazawa 920-0341 Japan

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+81 76-266-2011

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