If the couple's mission was to make reading relevant again then this is a total triumph. A long queue of people regularly wait to get inside the Barcelona library, in scenes more reminiscent of a concert than a reading room in a quiet area of the city.
Berlin-based Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke are the youngest winners ever to take the top prize for contemporary European architecture for their project at TU Braunschweig.
Read Once again this year the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia IAAC the research training production and communication centre located in Barcelona