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New York architects Edward York and Philip Sawyer received the commission to design the University of Michigan Law School’s Quadrangle in the early 1920s. The Legal Research Building was one of four Neo-Gothic buildings that York & Sawyer would design for the school. The structure, which looks from the outside like a Gothic cathedral, is still one of the largest freestanding law libraries in the world. In 1982 architect Gunnar Birkerts completed an ingenious underground addition to the library.
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Obviously, a link is needed for this interesting structure. In Ann Arbor, if you can't build out or up then just build down.
Posted by Chris W | February 12, 2007 4:13 PM
Posted on February 12, 2007 16:13
There is a fair amount of useful information about the buildings, including a slide show of the interior of the Birkerts addition, and a page about William Cook who paid for all the original buildings, at www.law.umich.edu/library.
The slide show is at
http://www.law.umich.edu/library/libinfo/pdf/tourumlib.pdf
and the Cook material is at
http://www.law.umich.edu/library/cook/cookhome.html
where there is a link to my article about Cook and his architects at http://www.law.umich.edu/library/cook/pdfs/cookandarchitects.pdf
Margaret Leary
Posted by Margaret Leary | March 1, 2007 6:46 PM
Posted on March 1, 2007 18:46