Dominique Perrault designed the Bibliothèque nationale de France (TGB) near the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand in Paris. The Simone-de-Beauvoir pedestrian bridge connects the axis between the four towers across the river Seine. A sunken garden stands between the 25-floor L-shaped towers. Wood decking and wood screens are integrated with steel and translucent facade treatments. The human scale of the project makes it a little less forbidding.
PPS put this project in the hall of shame: "The failure of this austere, modernist structure can be attributed to a lack of accessibility, a grand and imposing non-human scale as well as a complete absence of activities. The plaza and gardens are silent, and remain devoid of the public they were built to serve.
...it was realized too late that a library built from transparent glass would provide little protection for the books from sunlight; and that in fact, excessive sunlight would actually overheat the towers... the glass design failed to account for condensation, another threat to delicate books...
Outside, the unfriendly and inaccessible nature of the design provides no direct link among the four towers, and so traveling from one end of the library to another is an endless trek. There is also deficiency in directional signage."
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