University Library, CUHK | 中文大學圖書館
The University Library is the landmark building of the administrative cluster in the CUHK campus, located at the western end of the University Mall. It was designed by Engineer/Architect Szeto Wai, who laid down the campus development plan in early 1960, as well over 20 buildings in the CUHK campus.
In his campus design, Szeto Wai studied the rising brutalist trend in UK and the US, and had done case studies including Paul Ruldolph’s Yale Art and Architecture Building, and Denys Lasdun’s The Royal College of Physicians Building. The brutalist influence is evident in the University Library, highlighted by the extruded windows in the top and the diagonal texture finish in the middle portion.
First completed in 1972, the University Library soon could not handle the demand of the rapidly expanding campus and faced extension twice. The first extension connected the West facade to the 8 storey tall Faculty of Law building in the 1980s. The second extension was constructed in 2014, which kept the North Facade as part of the atrium space in the new extension. The building facade had also been painted white to cover the striking brute concrete finish and to create a modest look.
In celebration of the unexpected cultural appreciation of brutalist architecture in Hong Kong in recent years, the University Library has been recreated in its original state in CS1, and is published with a Campus DLC version and a vanilla version.
Size: 7×9
Main Mesh: 23800 Tris | 2048×2048 Texture
LOD: 2358 Tris | 128×128 Texture
Same Basic Statistics as Trade School Library (or Public Library)
-United College Library
-Tsang Siu Tim Building
-Siu Loong Building
-New Asia College + United College Water Tower
Hong Kong, Architecture, Modernism, Brutalism, University, CUHK
