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  • Space10 invites public into its Copenhagen HQ with kiosk-like design library

    IKEA's innovation lab Space10 has worked with interior designers Spacon & X to transform the ground floor of its headquarters into a library and community space, with a look that is meant to recall a simple kiosk. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 24 January 2023 | Leave a comment
  • Hacker overhauls "fortress-like" brutalist library in Oregon

    Colourful furnishings and large stretches of glass feature in a 1970s library building that has been updated by US studio Hacker Architects. More

    Jenna McKnight | 18 January 2023 | Leave a comment
  • MVRDV reveals plans for Wuhan Library with "stepped terraces of books"

    Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has unveiled designs for a 140,000 square metre library in Wuhan, China, with a sweeping form that takes cues from the topography of its surroundings. More

    James Parkes | 10 January 2023 | Leave a comment
  • WORKac blends old and new at Adams Street Library in Brooklyn

    Sculptural walls and tangerine hues feature in a public library by New York studio WORKac that is housed in a former torpedo factory. More

    Jenna McKnight | 2 January 2023 | Leave a comment
  • Bruno Gaudin Architectes completes 15-year transformation of National Library of France

    French practice Bruno Gaudin Architectes has completed a 15-year project to renovate and open up the historic rue de Richelieu site of the National Library of France in Paris, incorporating new public routes and spaces. More

    Jon Astbury | 27 December 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli unites old and new at town library in Italy

    Italian architecture studio Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli has completed the Brixen Public Library in South Tyrol, uniting a cluster of old civic buildings with a contemporary, angular addition. More

    Jon Astbury | 21 December 2022 | Leave a comment
  • C20 campaigns for Peckham Library to be made UK's first 21st-century listed building

    Architectural charity Twentieth Century Society has made a bid for architect Will Alsop's Peckham Library to become the first 21st-century building in the UK to receive protected status. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 12 December 2022 | Leave a comment
  • MAD's undulating concrete library "doesn't say too much" says Ma Yansong

    In the first instalment of Dezeen's Concrete Icons series produced in collaboration with Holcim, MAD Architects founder Ma Yansong explains how his studio's sinuous concrete library in Haikou, China, encourages visitors to use their imagination. More

    Calum Lindsay | 17 November 2022
  • Studio Weave adds wood-lined community space to east London library

    Architecture practice Studio Weave has added a wood-lined community centre to Lea Bridge Library in east London, with a red-concrete colonnade that references the original grade II-listed redbrick building. More

    Jon Astbury | 5 November 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Crawshaw Architects transforms cow shed into Stanbridge Mill Library

    London studio Crawshaw Architects has transformed a former cow shed in Dorset into a library and office, organised around a wooden, barrel-vaulted arcade that references the client's collection of books on classical Palladian architecture. More

    Jon Astbury | 18 October 2022 | Leave a comment
  • The New Library at Magdalene College by Niall McLaughlin Architects wins 2022 Stirling Prize

    A brick and timber library that Niall McLaughlin Architects created for the University of Cambridge has been revealed as the winner of the 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize. More

    Lizzie Crook | 13 October 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Atelier Tao+C creates serene timber and travertine reading room

    Two vacant ground-floor rooms and an adjoining greenhouse were knocked together and lined with bookshelves to form this private library, designed by Atelier Tao+C for a venture capital firm in Shanghai. More

    Ali Morris | 12 October 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Gables and chimneys inform Magdalene College library by Niall McLaughlin Architects

    Niall McLaughlin Architects referenced the brick and timber architecture of the University of Cambridge's historic Magdalene College in the design of its Stirling Prize-shortlisted New Library. More

    Jon Astbury | 3 October 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Condition_Lab intertwines spiral staircases at children's library in China

    Architecture research studio Condition_Lab has completed the Pingtan Book House in China's Hunan province, which features a double-helix staircase designed to provide space for children to read and play. More

    Amy Peacock | 18 September 2022 | Leave a comment
  • MAYU Architects updates library in Taiwan with glass-walled foyer and white cladding

    Local studio MAYU Architects has extended and renovated a cultural centre in Pingtung City, Taiwan, adding a spacious entrance pavilion that is designed to bring a feeling of transparency to the formerly "hermetic" 1983 building. More

    Jon Astbury | 8 September 2022 | Leave a comment
  • 3andwich Design tops clifftop library in China with circular pool

    Chinese studio 3andwich Design has unveiled the circular Water Drop Library in Shuangyue Bay, China, which is topped with a pool overlooking the sea. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 24 August 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Mariam Kamara and Sumayya Vally to design presidential library in Liberia

    Nigerien architect Mariam Kamara and South African architect Sumayya Vally are collaborating to design a presidential library for Liberia's former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Monrovia. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 20 April 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Snøhetta designs library in Beijing to resemble a ginkgo-tree forest

    Norwegian architecture studio Snøhetta has unveiled designs for a 16-metre-tall glass-enclosed library in Beijing formed from pillars that create a forest-like canopy. More

    James Parkes | 5 January 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Adjaye Associates completes rose-hued culture hub in Florida

    British architecture firm Adjaye Associates has designed a collection of pigmented-concrete pavilions in Winter Park, Florida, to house a library and an events centre. More

    James Parkes | 4 January 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Mecanoo and OTJ Architects complete renovation of Mies van der Rohe's Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library

    Architecture studios Mecanoo and OTJ Architects have added a rooftop garden and statement staircases to the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library in Washington DC as part of its renovation of the Mies van der Rohe-designed building. More

    Jane Englefield | 21 December 2021 | Leave a comment
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