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March 06, 2006: Paris Libraries Featured in "The New York Times" Travel Section
"Decades before Gustave Eiffel built his tower, Henri Labrouste was the supreme fashioner of cast iron, leaving his mark from the 1840's to the 1860's with a pair of magnificent libraries, the Bibliothèques Ste.-Genevieve and Nationale. Dominique Perrault's futuristic design for the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand, widely ridiculed since it was completed in 1994, has nonetheless served as a quai-side anchor for the revitalization of the 13th Arrondissement, across from the rejuvenated neighborhood of Bercy."
