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variety of construction including blockwork, brickwork, and lightweight framed construction.  The roof has steel trusses.  Refer to plans at Appendix C.

High quality materials were used in many of the key spaces and building detailing.  This includes:
     * paving of the foyer with Australian Wombeyan marble;
     * handrails of Imperial black granite from South Australia;
     * cruciform columns are clad in white Carrara marble, the walls clad in Roman travertine, and the windows are bronze-framed;
     * the foyer staircases are of pentelic marble specially selected from a quarry outside Athens;
     * the wall behind the foyer is clad in split grey-green Serpentino marble tiles from north Italy;  and
     * feature walls are clad in a variety of Australian timbers including Tasmanian oak, jarrah, red cedar and coachwood.

Furniture throughout the building was designed by Frederick Ward and Arthur Robinson in collaboration with the architects, and many pieces remain in use or in storage.

  Figure 7.  Foyer stairs and Serpentino tiled wall from Mezzanine floor
  Source:  Duncan Marshall 2017

  Figure 8.  Former Director General's Office
  Source:  Duncan Marshall 2017

  Figure 9.  Patterned paving on Podium
  Source:  Duncan Marshall 2017

Planning layout
The planning layout of the building as it exists in 2017 includes:
     * the restaurant, shop, Treasures and Exhibition Galleries, Main Reading Room, Newspapers and family history zone are all located on the ground floor;
     * major public or prestige spaces tend to be located at the east end of the building, often centrally placed.  This includes the theatre, foyer, restaurant, executive offices, Ferguson Room, Rex Nan Kivell Room, Asian collections Reading Room, Conference Room and Brindabella Room;
     * service cores are located towards the east and west ends of the building.  The cores include foyers, lifts, stairs, toilets and service risers; and
     * offices tend to be located around the perimeter of the floors above the ground floor, with book stack areas or other facilities centrally located, and corridors encircling either or both the service cores or central store areas.

Figure 10.  Current Ground Floor Plan
Source:  National Library of Australia

Architectural style
The building is in the Late Twentieth Century Stripped Classical style.  Features of this style displayed by the building include the:
     * symmetrical facade;
     * horizontal skyline;
     * regular bays of vertical proportion;
     * colonnade surrounding the building;
     * use of columns without bases or capitals;
     * a broad horizontal member at the roofline echoing classical entablature (the decorative treatment at the top of a wall above the columns);  and
     * central entrance.[1]

  Figure 11.  Building from northwest
  Source:  Duncan Marshall 2017

Notable Interiors
The building contains a number of largely original spaces which are notable because of their design, details, their use of high quality