The Limoges media library is part of a vast urban planning operation designed to revitalize a historic district of Limoges. Architect Pierre Riboulet has succeeded in integrating modern volumes (large glass facades) with an 18th-century building, the city's former General Hospital. The passageway between the two buildings has been laid out as a winter garden, so that no break is perceptible from the inside.
The library is also intended to be in harmony with the city's history, to which the...