架构师提供的文本描述。新的奥莉娅公共图书馆和市场广场戏剧性地刷新了奥利亚市中心。图书馆的碎玻璃正面在阳光下闪闪发光-一个微妙的对立面的重量级红砖码头毗邻的维多利亚歌剧院。图书馆的窗户，装饰着切分，垂直的叶子带，增加了令人惊讶的装饰，否则干净的当代建筑。这种装饰产生于镇议会的愿望，这是许多有着自豪历史的地区城镇的典型，他们希望建造一座新的建筑，以配合其19世纪初和20世纪初的邻国。

Text description provided by the architects. The new Orillia Public Library and Market Square dramatically refresh downtown Orillia.The library’s fritted glass facade shimmers in the sunlight—a delicate counterpoint to the weighty red brick piers of the adjacent, Victorian Opera House. The library’s windows, decorated with syncopated, vertical bands of foliage, add surprising decoration to the otherwise clean and contemporary building. This ornamentation stems from the town council’s desire, as is typical of many regional towns with a proud history, to construct a new building that would compliment its nineteenth and early twentieth century neighbours.

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建筑师们决心响应客户的愿望，但同时也创造出一座能够传达此地和现在的建筑，他们从这本书的书脊、正面和印刷边框的复杂装饰主题中汲取灵感，这些图案是奥莉娅公共图书馆(Orillia Public Library)珍稀藏书中的精美装饰图案。满足了历史的粘贴者，他们开发了六种优美的图案，基于维多利亚时代的排版边界。陶瓷墨水，或“FRITT”，直接应用于玻璃面板，将建筑师的数字文件发送到一台大型喷墨打印机。然后对面板进行退火处理，使图形与玻璃永久融合。这些图形被集成在建筑庭院正面幕墙内的交替玻璃窗中。在大楼内，建筑师们继续这个主题，例如，将主题应用于玻璃栏杆和收银台后面的隐私屏幕上。在外面，图书馆的华丽玻璃丝带由简单的西班牙陶瓷砖、建筑混凝土和安大略石灰石组成，与歌剧院和周围街景的物质性相呼应。

Determined to respond to their client’s desires, but to also create a building that would communicate the here and now, the architects drew inspiration from the intricate decorative motifs of the book spines, frontispieces and printed borders in Orillia Public Library’s rare book collection. Satisfying the sticklers for history, they developed six graceful motifs based on Victorian typographic borders. The ceramic ink, or ‘frit’, was applied directly to the glass panels by sending the architect’s digital files to a large-scale ink jet printer. The panels were then annealed to permanently fuse the graphic to the glass. These graphics were integrated into alternating glass bays within the curtain wall of the building’s courtyard-facing façade. Inside the building the architects continued the theme, for example applying the motifs to glass balustrades and to a privacy screen behind the checkout counter. Outside, the library’s ribbon of ornate glass is complemented by simple expanses of Spanish terracotta tile, architectural concrete and Ontario limestone that echo the materiality of the Opera House and the surrounding streetscape.

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这种历史上敏感的构图给奥莉娅的一部分带来了活泼而优雅的存在，而奥莉娅的一部分随着零售业向大盒子商店转移到该镇的外部界限而变得孤立无援。到了白天，阳光透过树叶的图案过滤，创造了一个生动的内在体验，不断变化的纹理。晚上，水晶部分在沉睡的小镇上投射出温暖的光芒。

This historically sensitive composition introduces a lively and graceful presence to a part of Orillia that had become forlorn with the movement of retail to big box stores to the town’s outer limits. By day sunlight filters through the foliage patterns, creating a lively internal experience of ever-changing texture. At night the crystalline portion casts a warm glow on the sleepy town.

 © Ben Rahn / A-Frame

C.Ben Rahn/A-框架

这些窗户不仅借鉴了这个地方的历史和目的，而且也强调了当今技术的进步：用于将这种图案应用到玻璃上的陶瓷玻璃技术，今天和维多利亚时代的机械书籍一样具有创新性。

The windows not only draw on the history and purpose of the place, they also underscore the technical advancements of the day: the ceramic frit technology that was used to apply the pattern to the glass is just as innovative today as machined books were to the Victorian era.

 © Ben Rahn / A-Frame

C.Ben Rahn/A-框架

图书馆的两层楼高的L形建筑与歌剧院一起设计了一个新的公共庭院，这是以前没有的。这个坡地定义了一系列空间，包括为容纳受欢迎的农贸市场而设计的区域、音乐会后聚集的人群，以及户外表演、节日和社区活动的场所-所有这些都由图书馆内的设施提供支持。在外观和功能上，这座建筑充满了自豪感，与奥莉娅的过去和现代的市政生活相提并论。

The library’s two-storey, L-shaped building works with the Opera House to frame a new public courtyard where none previously existed. The sloping site defines a series of spaces including areas designed to accommodate the popular farmers’ market, the crowds of people who gather after concerts, and a place for outdoor performances, festivals and community events – all now supported by facilities within the library. In both appearance and function, the building is full of pride, joining Orillia’s past with its modern-day municipal life.