Library “Selexyz Dominicanen”: Enormous architectural beauty

With a prize under the arm, we find us with one of the most beautiful libraries of the entire world. In the year 2007, the Library “Selexyz Dominicanen” was a creditor with the Prize of Interior Architecture Lensvelt. Being respected also as bookstore counts on the major stock of books in English of this medieval city, that is one of the oldest cities of the country. Its exact location is in Maastricht, Holland (to see hotels in Holland).



All those people that consider that the reading is an incomparable experience with something defined. We know that a shelter to the height of the same one, should be an exact and precious space to the measures of the readers that seek tranquility to enjoy the old as modern texts. It is because of it when we visit the Bookstore ‘Selexyz Dominicanen’, we find a most beautiful breeze, and only remains desires to be sat down and to enjoy the infrastructure that offers this chain of Bookstores Selexyz, that in its headquarters in the Dominican church counts on 800 years of antiquity.



The design of the bookstore, carried out by the study of architecture Merkx and Girod, respects to the maximum the original personality of the church taking advantage of a surprising way the space. And the fact is that the height of the ceiling permitted them to create a gigantic bookcase with stairs and elevators. What permits to have a more extensive vision of the place, and shows more magnificently a poetry of bookstore.

On the other hand, they count the anecdotes that the Dutch architects, Merkx and Girod, they were found with numerous problems in the structure of the design, since alone they could use 750 square meters of the 1200 square meters that required to cover the project, and at the same time to maintain intact a church with many years of antiquity; but was also a challenge to obtain in a little space the beauty that desired: an image Attractive, elegant and modern. In this way, they take advantage of the highest ceilings to create a structure of various flats in an ascent toward the vault of crucería of the nave. It arranges also on the other side of the church of low tables for the bestsellers and the last premieres, as well as a café so that the readers relax.



An essence of perfection in the design obtained, in which combines modern and medieval architecture, that cannot leave to pass the opportunity to visit if we have thought some time to arrive at this European country. In fact, they have to come…