British Modern Library Business and Intellectual Property Centre Architecture, London

British Modern Library Business and Intellectual Property Centre opened to the public on 9 March 2006. This British Modern Library Business and Intellectual Property Centre was building to provides a new and exclusive resource for small and medium sized business, a space for entrepreneurs and creative people to network and benefit from the British. The Architecture design was acknowledges a new generation of inventors and entrepreneurs who will respond to the new spirit of the Centre and will be drawn to a contemporary environment with the brand values and unique knowledge resource of the British Library. British Library Business and Intellectual Property Centre strategy is to make the building and its collections more easily accessible by the public. The design of the new Business and Intellectual Property Centre by architects Eldridge Smerin is the first completed Architectural project within the building since it opened in 1997. The Network Area is the first of a sequence of spaces and is a transitional area for networking and informal meetings between the public foyer and the Reading Room. Beyond the long glass wall that separates this space and the reading room is the Workshop Studios which can be booked for seminars, meetings and workshop sessions. They are equipped for presentations and the largest of these allows a flexible configuration of furniture for different events. The architects selected furniture for the Centre which combines a classic chair designed in 1948 with the latest work benching systems by Vitra. The furniture was trialed by the Library for Wi-Fi use in the foyer in 2005 and responds to the new demands within the library for flexibility and ease of reconfiguration. Achieving these, the Vitra system also competes well with the best of contemporary design and is consistent with the architect’s. –via-