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架构师提供的文本描述。经过四年的设计和开发，MGS建筑师提供了新一代本迪戈图书馆，提供最先进的图书馆和社区服务，包括供聚会和安静思考的空间、咖啡馆、志愿者资源中心、儿童图书馆和“小房子”、画廊空间、升级研究设施和扩大社区互联网接入。

Text description provided by the architects. After four years of design and development, MGS Architects has delivered the New Generation Bendigo Library, offering state of the art library and community services including spaces to meet and for quiet reflection, a café, a volunteer resource centre, a children’s library and “cubby house”, gallery spaces, upgraded research facilities and extended internet access for the community.

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该图书馆目前是维多利亚州第二大图书馆，仅次于国家图书馆，配备了用于无缝借阅服务的最新射频识别(RFID)技术，是金地图书馆公司(Goldfield Library Corporation)的所在地。

The library, now Victoria’s second largest after the State Library, has been fitted with the latest radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for seamless borrowing services and is home to the Goldfields Library Corporation.

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重建计划分两层，占地四千平方米，目的是提供一个灵活而包容的图书馆，让市民可以透过节目和机会，聚会、交换意见和互相交流。

The redevelopment comprises 4,000 square metres of functional areas over two levels, designed to offer a flexible and inclusive library that allows people to meet, exchange ideas and interact with each other through both programmes and chance.

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该项目结合了现有的1984年建筑与公共花园的正面在历史中心的本迪戈，在当代建筑和室内设计的反应，最大限度地利用公共领域的机会。这座建筑的设计展示了本迪戈市致力于制定市政委员会的环境可持续性政策，包括一个建筑物管理系统，该系统跟踪能源使用情况，并将这些信息实时传递给占用者，让游客有机会了解并与能源的使用量进行互动。

The project incorporates the pre-existing 1984 building with frontage to public gardens in the historic centre of Bendigo in a contemporary architectural and interior design responses maximising the opportunities to engage with the public realm. The building’s design demonstrates the City of Bendigo’s commitment to enacting council’s environmental sustainability policies by incorporating a Building Management System, which tracks energy use and transmits this information in real time to the occupants, allowing visitors the opportunity to understand and interact with how much energy is used.

董事伊莱·詹尼尼和约书亚·惠勒领导了MGS建筑公司的项目团队。惠勒表示：“我们的项目在为人们创造场所方面得到认可。”

Directors Eli Giannini and Joshua Wheeler led the project team at MGS Architects. “Our projects are recognised for creating places for people,” Mr Wheeler says.

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“我们对这个项目感到非常自豪。我们为本迪戈图书馆提供了高质量的建筑和室内设计，我们期待它在社区中继续取得成功。“

“We’re extremely proud of this project. We’ve provided high quality architecture and interior design for the Bendigo Library, and we look forward to its continued success in the community.”

“我最自豪的是社区的反应。”来自本迪戈市的项目主任MargAllan说。

“The thing I am most proud of is the community response” said Project Director from the City of Bendigo, Marg Allan.

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“仅在头十天，就有两万人参观了图书馆。”她说。

”In the first ten days alone, 20,000 people have already visited the library.” She said.

“真是太棒了”

“That is just amazing.”

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最近的数字显示，在图书馆运营的第一个月，有55，000人参观了图书馆，图书馆会员人数增加了230%。

More recent figures have shown 55,000 people visited the library in the first month of operation with a 230% increase in Library Membership.

Architects MGS Architects

Location 259 Hargreaves Street, Bendigo VIC 3550, Australia

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Design Architect Joshua Wheeler, Eli Giannini

Project Architect Chantelle Chiron, Ryan de Winnaar, Rob Compagnino, Kit Kietgumjorn, Babak Kahvazdeh Gary Yeoh Sue Buchanan

Area 4010.0 sqm

Project Year 2014

Photographs Andrew Latreille