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After four years of design and development, MGS Architects has delivered the New Generation Bendigo Library, offering state of the art library and community services including spaces to meet and for quiet reflection, a café, a volunteer resource centre, a children?s library and ?cubby house?, gallery spaces, upgraded research facilities and extended internet access for the community.
Courtesy of MGS Architects – Photographs : Andrew Latreille
The library, now Victoria?s second largest after the State Library, has been fitted with the latest radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for seamless borrowing services and is home to the Goldfields Library Corporation.
Courtesy of MGS Architects – Floor Plan The redevelopment comprises 4,000 square metres of functional areas over two levels, designed to offer a flexible and inclusive library that allows people to meet, exchange ideas and interact with each other through both programmes and chance.
Courtesy of MGS Architects – Photographs : Andrew Latreille
The project incorporates the pre-existing 1984 building with frontage to public gardens in the historic centre of Bendigo in a contemporary architectural and interior design responses maximising the opportunities to engage with the public realm.
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The building?s design demonstrates the City of Bendigo?s commitment to enacting council?s environmental sus...