Library' building
New premises was built on the residential
area "Nivki" (str. Bauman, 60) on the original project of main architect
M.P.Budilovsky and architect I.A.Cejtlina.
Outwardly, library produces an impression of unrolled book, decorated by
figured hammered metallic lattices with images of the different plants
and animals. Due to such appearance it reminds an ancient castle.
The authors of the project tried to
do their bestto help the children to relax - to sit quietly and read a
book or look a film, listen to a plate or sit at a musical instrument.
So at readers' disposal there would be not only reading common-rooms and
subscriptions but the rooms for individual and group listening of music,
videosalon, room of fairy tales, assembly and computer common-rooms.
The interior of the library answers
to the author's artist’s design to create real "temple of books". Well-known
Ukrainian artists worked at this project: products from the ceramics (panel
"The printing pioneers", room of fairy tales, amazing flowers in vestibule)
created by Olga Rapaj; metallic hammered lattice
and colour stained-glass window - by Alexander Milovzorov,
tapestry manual weaving - by Svetlana and Eugeny
Kravchenko, bronze sculpture of boy with the book - by Boris
Dovgan. He is also the author of an arch in front of the library's
entry - original gallery of writers, such as: Homer, W.Shakespeare, P.Tychina,
N.Gogol, T.Shevchenko, L.Ukrainka, A.Pushkin, V.Majakovsky, A.Gajdar.
The history of typography is realized in the ancient national style of
ceramics - glazes on one of the internal wall of library. Amongst images
the ancient papyruses, hieroglyph, modern processes of typography there
are four main images: German inventor of typography Johann Gutenberg, Russian
and Ukrainian first printer Ivan Fiodorov, Slavic enlighteners Kiril and
Mefody. An extremely interesting creative discovery is a panel made from
chamotte on the external wall of room of fairy tales, where different folk
and literary fairy tales characters are represented.
At the construction of library best decoration
materials were used: rose tiles for the decoration of walls have entered
from Armenia, from Uzbekistan - a marble. Yerevan masters have made stained-glass
windows, and carpathians furniture-makers made readers’ tables of special
designs, shelves and book show-cases; miraculous parquet is received from
Kivercy an Volyn area of Ukraine.