News Asplund Library, Stockholm, Sweden Our proposal for an addition to the Asplund Library juxtaposes the concept of an ever-changing river – inspired by the great subglacial watercourse that formed Observation Hill – against the cylinder of the Stockholm Library Rotunda, built to celebrate the eternal verities of human knowledge. The fluidly angled, interconnected and open-ended forms of the new building symbolize the digital flow of global information characteristic of modernity. These indeterminate forms contrast with the neo-Platonic geometries of Asplund’s building and their origins in the ideals of the Enlightenment. The new building extends the landscape of Observatory Hill towards Odengatan by continuing the plateau of its esker, the gravel ridge deposited by the ancient river that flowed beneath the Pleistocene ice sheet. The project thus also extends the scale of human time, as symbolized by the Asplund rotunda, to the scale of natural time, the timetable of geology. By so doing, the building places the flux of human information within the context of the mutability of nature. Natural light penetrates the building between its interlocking forms and is used throughout to evoke the philosophical transformation over time from the transcendent Reason embodied in the rotunda to the agonistic finitude of dynamic human life.