Atrium corner of Phillips Exeter Academy Library. The reinforced concrete walls surrounding the atrium floats in front of the structural mass for stacks.‹›
Phillips Exeter Academy Library

Louis Kahn

Interior · Exeter, United States · 1972

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Atrium corner of Phillips Exeter Academy Library. The reinforced concrete walls surrounding the atrium floats in front of the structural mass for stacks.

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