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Hugh Owen Library
Hugh Owen Library in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.
Philip Halling — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Hugh Owen Library is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Hugh Owen Library is the principal academic library of Aberystwyth University in Wales, providing comprehensive library services across all academic disciplines within the institution. Named in honour of Sir Hugh Owen, the nineteenth-century Welsh educationalist and principal founder of the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth, the library was completed in 1976 as an integral component of the university's systematic expansion onto the Penglais Campus.
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Background
Architecture
The Hugh Owen Library exemplifies the principles of Modernist institutional architecture through its organisation as three substantial, flat-roofed rectangular blocks arranged in a stepped configuration of three to four storeys. The building's design responds sensitively to the steep hillside location through the use of emphatically horizontal terraced forms that follow the natural contours of the site. The architectural treatment features continuous ribbon windows that create visual continuity between the discrete blocks as they descend the slope. Construction employed reinforced concrete with external cladding of gravel aggregate panels, complemented by brick elements and steel-framed…
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- Coordinates
- 52.4166, -4.0642
- District
- Ceredigion
- Parish
- Aberystwyth
- Postcode
- SY23 3DY
- Parliamentary constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli
- Established
- 1976
- Official site
- www.aber.ac.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q50231146 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Hugh Owen Library (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Hugh Owen Library?
- Hugh Owen Library is in Mid Wales, United Kingdom (postcode SY23 3DY), in the parish of Aberystwyth.
- When was Hugh Owen Library built?
- Built or established in 1976.
- How do I get to Hugh Owen Library?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode SY23 3DY. It sits within the Ceredigion Preseli parliamentary constituency.