"Calgary's New Central Library is an example of the best practices in modern monument making"

Why can't all public libraries be as warm and welcoming as Snøhetta and Dialog's New Central Library for Calgary, asks Aaron Betsky in this Opinion column.You walk in under a curving canopy of wood, slide into lozenge-shaped space where stacks and tables surrounded by reading people of all ages and sorts radiate away from you, and find yourself drawn up into the centre of vortex, an eye to the sky that leads you up along a grand stair, past level after level of more lounging and learning,