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The Hive by Feilden Clegg
Bradley Studios
Slideshow: just like the museum we published yesterday, this library in Worcester, England, by architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios is covered with shimmering squares of golden metal. More »
Taltal Public Library by Murúa-Valenzuela
Daylight floods into the reading rooms of this Chilean library though the high level windows of faceted ventilation stacks. Watch a movie of the building » More »
Canada Water Library by CZWG
Architects CZWG have completed a bronzed, hexagonal library that leans across a dock in south London. More »
Nam June Paik Library by N H D M
The public library for an arts centre in South Korea is condensed into a cube at the centre of a room. More »
Médiathèque Corbie by Béal & Blanckaert
Paris architects Béal & Blanckaert have completed a Corten-clad library in the grounds of a monastery in northern France (photos by Julien Lanoo). More »
Carlos Santamaría Centre by JAAM
Photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us these photographs of a curved concrete library in San Sebastian with a narrow courtyard driven through its centre. More »
Liyuan Library by Li Xiaodong
Architect Li Xiaodong has completed a library in China that’s covered in firewood. More »
Regional Library and Knowledge Centre
by Török és Balázs Építészeti
A mosaic rainbow of glazed ceramic tiles lines an egg-shaped dome at the heart of a library in Pécs, Hungary. More »
Médiathèque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau
Criss-crossing metal beams surround a first floor reading room at a multimedia library near Paris. More »
Kanazawa Umimirai Library by Kazumi Kudo and
Hiroshi Horiba / Coelacanth K&H Architects
Around 6000 holes puncture the concrete exterior of this library in Kanazawa, Japan, by Kazumi Kudo and Hiroshi Horiba of Japanese firm Coelacanth K&H Architects. More »
Dezeen archive: libraries
Dezeen Archive: following our popular story on Musashino Art University Library by Sou Fujimoto Architects (top right) composed of timber bookshelves, we’ve grouped together all our stories from the Dezeen archives about libraries. See all the stories »
Musashino Art University Library
by Sou Fujimoto Architects
Photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us these photographs of a university library in Tokyo by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto that has an exterior of timber shelves covered by planes of glass. More »
Oberkirch Media Centre by Wurm + Wurm
This curled staircase is at the heart of a media centre by German studio Wurm + Wurm, in Germany. More »
Médiathèque d’Anzin by Dominique Coulon
& Associés
This multimedia library in Anzin, France, by Strasbourg architects Dominique Coulon & Associés is wrapped in overlapping slices of concrete. More »