Mecanoo designs NYC library topped by ‘wizard hat’
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, designed in collaboration with Beyer Blinder Belle, transforms a historic building on Fifth Avenue Dutch architecture practice Mecanoo and US
Mexican practice turns underloved library into colourful community hub
The Héctor Caballero Library project is part of a programme run by Proyecto Reacciona which transforms local libraries using participatory design Words by Francesca Perry
Foster + Partners’ House of Wisdom opens in Sharjah
Housed under a cantilevered roof surrounded by landscaped gardens, the library and cultural centre is the latest addition to the UAE city In Sharjah, UAE,
OPEN Architecture designs blue Bibliotheater in Shanghai
Built for a school, the ship-like library and theatre building features unusual design touches to celebrate reading and performing New York- and Beijing-based OPEN Architecture
JKMM redesigns 1980s Finnish library as new community centre
The building in the southern Finnish town of Kirkkonummi has doubled in size and gained a striking new copper shingle facade Kirkkonummi, a municipality outside
A ‘living room’ for a village: Helen & Hard’s timber library in western Norway
The project comprises a library, homes and offices in one distinctive structure Words by Francesca Perry Helen & Hard, a Norwegian practice celebrated especially for
The Library of Birmingham: A palace for the people
The Library of Birmingham was designed by Dutch architecture studio Mecanoo as a palace for the people, where anyone could access information and culture
Architect’s refurbished Giles Gilbert Scott building in Oxford reopened this weekend as the Weston Library Stirling prize-winning architect Wilkinson Eyre’s refurbished New Bodleian Library in
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