Spanish wunderkind Santiago Calatrava, who last week won the gold medal of the American Institute of Architects, has designed this dramatic structure in Switzerland.
![Underground classic](https://d2vhdk00tg424t.cloudfront.net/MediaLibrary/s3/ubm-library/web/b/s/x/49news9.jpg)
It is an oval glass dome supported on a curving rib cage and bowing central spine. The entire dome and the six floors of library directly below it have been nearly submerged within the rectangular courtyard of a century-old neoclassical building at Zürich university’s law school. Externally, the dome is barely visible above a copper roof on all four sides. Internally, some 500 library desks are arranged in an elliptical ring overlooking the central atrium and lit by the dome overhead.
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