Couple of months ago, this site has posted an interview with Swedish designer/architect Peter Thuvander about his works, and one of them is the Library Bus project. Since then, Peter is one of my best friend from the internet.

Yesterday, Peter has send me an email about the realization of his Library Bus project along with some nice images of the bus in its real life. Below is the updated information from Peter about the project.

Me and Martin Hedenström from Muungano got the chance to design a library bus for the northern town of Kiruna, as it happens it´s now done and have won the prize ´Library bus of the year´ given by the Swedish librarian society.

The function of the new bus is to supply a larger service, where new digital media is presented as well as traditional printed material.

Except from distributing media the bus will also function as a place for people to communicate on the web and enable meetings between different groups in the society.

Because of the lack of sunlight during most of the year in the north the bus will be like a lantern when dark to attract people and light up the surroundings.

The bus includes a library, a small cinema, computer games, a music listening couch, internet station and personal service. The graphics is made by fellow designers Fredrik Forsberg at THEY GRAPHICS.

Peter Thuvander
Designer/ Architect MFA
Disponentgatan 3
112 62 Stockholm
Sweden
P. +46 (0)739 47 92 89
info@peterthuvander.se
www.peterthuvander.se

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