Low Library has a Chinese doppelgänger!
Changchun Architecture and Civil Engineering College recently opened its new “White House” library and many Columbia students may find it familiar. The building, which is located in the heart of Changchun’s campus in the north-eastern Jilin province of China, is a carbon copy of Low—on a much larger scale. Probably because this building hopes to actually function as a library, it’s seven stories tall and occupies 20,000 square meters of land.
The library also boasts luxurious sofas, rustic chandeliers, and a coffee shop and costs over a whopping 500,000,000 Chinese yuan (that would be over 78,585,500 U.S. dollars). The school sent a delegate to check out some of the prominent universities in the United States and was reportedly so impressed by our building that they decided to mimic it.
Looking at a picture of Changchun’s new library, you might notice that its rotunda roof is made of glass as opposed to Low’s granite and marble. You might also notice that a certain spot on the steps where our beloved Alma usually resides is currently vacant. While there’s no word yet on what statue will overlook the campus yet, feel free to place bets in the comments below.
If you’d like more details on the new library and have a good grasp on Chinese, check out reports here.
PrezBo should stop this Chinese university from putting up a big Mao Zedong in front of the “Low Library”
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You dumb fuckers, Low’s rotunda is made of granite, not marble. Fact-check much?
You seem like a pleasant person to be around.
From Wikipedia: “The 106-foot-tall (32 m) rotunda, formerly the library reading room when the building was used for its original function, is lined with columns of solid green Connemara marble from Ireland, topped with gold capitals.” I’m editing the piece to say “granite and marble.”
Now go away please.
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As I tried to understand more about Low Memorial Library, I learned of Seth Low and his father Abiel Abbot Low. The family had very close tie with China. A.A. Low made big money from the China trade in tea and also in the opium trade. The Low Memorial Library was built in his memory by Seth in 1895.
The shocking question now is if the money made from opium trade, which destroyed so many Chinese people, went in to build the Low Library? I doubt if the Chinese university who copied Low Library was aware of the story.
from COLUMBIA to CORUMBIA
WHO IS dqueezy ?!!!!!!!!?!?!?!
The Chinese love New York and Columbia.
Low Library of Columbia University is one of the most widely recognized buildings in the world. No other major university has such a world recognizable building specific to a university.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Library_(UNAM)
This website said nothing.
The great dome at MIT is at least equally iconic. The Rotunda at Virginia also leaps to mind. So do Royce Hall at UCLA and Sather Tower (aka the Campanile) at UC Berkeley. Sterling Tower at Yale is right up there, too. Given more time, I could probably think of several others.
MIT’s dome was also a copy of Low Library. The person above said,”one of the most recognized” academic buildings, and I think he /she is still correct. The other ivies in particular do not have a single building that is particularly identified world wide with that university.
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Can I buy a fake Low Library in Chinatown?