Coffee garden

Coffee garden Library, the name says it all, is made in the style of a library. “You know that atmosphere,” says architect Orlando Tjin Asjoe with a dreamy sound in his voice. “An old library where silence reigns and sounds are muffled by Persian carpets. Where people are silently absorbed in books, sitting in well-worn armchairs. Newspapers are read in the glow of green reading lamps. The incoming sunlight is broken by wide wooden slats and shines on the tartan-patterned carpet. And where hushed voices carry on animated conversations, observed by their illustrious predecessors who look contentedly at the spectacle from their frames.” He smiles. “Can you feel the atmosphere?”

And that is exactly the atmosphere that the Library coffee garden evokes. There are large, comfortable armchairs in various places to relax and read the newspaper with a cup of coffee. The green hooded reading lamps, the tartan-patterned carpet and the wooden slats that Orlando Tjin Asjoe already mentioned are all present.