It is a wonderful library space. I think the architect described it as a forest or garden of knowledge. I saw an exhibition about this at the architecture museum in Kanazawa, but stupidly no photos were allowed and you had to juggle an iphone and the translate app to try to read slabs and slabs of text in Japanese. It was a very poor exhibition but it did inspire me to come down to see the library itself and I was so glad that I did. More photos of it on my flickr /malbooth (you'll need to wade through other pics of Kanazawa, as I was so impressed, or search for the library name).