Renowned Chicago-based architect Helmut Jahn designed the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, which will be a partially underground facility topped with a glass dome and have the capacity to house 3.5 ...

The newest library at the University of Chicago houses 3.5 million volumes under a bubble-like dome in Hyde Park. It was designed by prolific architect Helmut Jahn (who, among many impressive ...

Call it the Book Bubble. The Dome for Tomes. Or the Spaceship That Made Reading Oh-So-Cool. However you describe it, Chicago architect Helmut Jahn’s audacious new Joe and Rika Mansueto Library ...

If Google Books was a physical place instead of a web service, it would probably look a lot like the University of Chicago’s new library The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, opening next week, is ...

VideoThe University of Chicago's new Joe and Rika Mansueto Library is, it seems, a caricature of futurism. Under a vast glass dome sits an 8,000 sq-ft reading room, complete with flat screens, a ...

Mansueto, which was packed on the day I visited, is just as quiet. Which surprised me a bit—being composed of steel, glass, and wood, I figured it would be at least a bit noisy. But it wasn’t ...

Architect Helmut Jahn is having a great run at the University of Chicago as of late--first with the award-wining thriller of a chiller plant on the school’s south campus, and now the Joe and ...

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Few seats were empty in the Grand Reading Room of the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library yesterday as students poured in to see the finished outcome of the $81 million project that began over two years ago ...

Rika Mansueto, AB’91, director of the Mansueto Foundation, has been elected to the University of Chicago Board of Trustees. She began her five-year term at the May 2017 board meeting. “Rika is a ...

University of Chicago Police said at 11:16 p.m. Monday, ... The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library and the busy Regenstein Library are located just across Ellis Avenue.