Armuth Miklós - Lőrinczi Zsuzsa (szerk.): A Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem Történeti Campusa (Budapest, 2023)
A Könyvtár épülete - The Library Building Gy. Balogh Ágnes
1 3 U Alajos Hauszmann was worried about the exterior design of the complex: he argued that it lacks the counterbalancing effects of the mass of the planned 12-storey tower which he conceived to be a counterweight to the Central Building. During the construction committee's session on June 22nd, 1907 Hauszmann proposed to add a so-called ''ridge-turret'' to the Library Building, referring to aesthetic reasons. Pecz supported this proposal, and although there had been no sign of a clock-tower in any of the plans before, the committed approved of its construction. In June, 1907 designs of the roof for the administrative wing (referred to as the “left wing") was completed. Those of the roof of the "right wing”, which is the reading hall, were finished in August, 1907, whilst the plans for the roofing of the central part of the building including the ridge turret were completed in January, 1908. Details of the foyer (in a 1:4-0 and 1:10 scale] were also drawn in the same month. In May the final order for the stonework of the connecting corridor was ready in a scale of 1:20, whilst a new detail plan for the triple door of the students’ reading hall dates from January, 1909. Construction commenced simultaneously with the design work. On October4th, 1906 the representative of the royal treasury signed the contract with Li pót Havel master builder TV-**
