施密特·哈迪合伙人兼董事克里斯·哈迪(Chris Hardie)表示：“鉴于我们与当地设计院和客户团队的良好合作，我们对宁波新中央图书馆将成为一个充满活力的新公共空间充满信心。”

"Given our great collaboration with the Local Design Institute and the client team, we are full of confidence that the Ningbo New Central Library will become a vibrant new public space for the citizens of Ningbo,” says Chris Hardie, partner and director of schmidt hammer lassen.

这个30，000平方米的图书馆围绕着一个8000平方米的“开放市场”组织起来，在地下向周围的公共广场、生态公园和湖泊开放。施密特·哈默·拉森的建筑风格很大程度上体现了这种开放的民主方式，这也是我们在斯堪的纳维亚和欧洲完成的许多图书馆项目中可以看到的主题。

Organized around an 8,000-square-meter "open marketplace," the 30,000-square-meter library opens itself on the ground floor to the surrounding public plaza, ecological park and lake. "This open democratic approach too public libraries is very much part of the ethos of schmidt hammer lassen’s architecture and a theme that can be seen in many of our completed library projects in Scandinavia and Europe," said the practice in a 

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一座28米高的大中庭“以巨大的书堆形式”占据了大楼的中心核心，提供书房、阅览室、互联网和阅读空间。它与地面市场相连，提供私人研究和上面的历史藏品，同时将自然光“深入图书馆的中心”，反过来“在日落后起到城市灯笼的作用”。

A large, 28-meter-high central atrium "in the form of a giant book stack" occupies the building's central core, offering study desks, reading booths, internet and reading spaces. It connects to the marketplace on the ground level and gives access to private research and historic collections above, while bringing natural light "deep into the heart of the library" which in turn "acts as an urban lantern after

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该博物馆预计将于2017年完工。

The museum is expected to complete in 2017.