Large wooden beams frame the interiors of L'échappée, a multimedia library in France designed by local practice Atelier WOA as an alternative to "institutional and cold" public buildings. More about Atelier WOA creates long timber-framed library in France
International studio Snøhetta has completed Beijing City Library in China, a glass-lined building filled with towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. More about Snøhetta creates library to emulate feeling of "sitting under a tree"
Five interconnected, angular volumes form this library and tea-tasting room designed by Chinese architecture studio Atelier Xi on an ice-chrysanthemum plantation in Xiuwu, China. More about Atelier Xi creates angular library within Chinese tea plantation
Indian practice Studio Hinge has completed Forest of Knowledge, a library in Mumbai that sits beneath a tree-like canopy of latticed wood. More about Studio Hinge creates library spaces beneath tree-like wooden columns
Architecture studio Yukawa Design Lab has created a children's library overlooking Shirasagi Park in Sakai, Japan. More about Yukawa Design Lab arranges Shirasagi Children's Library around playful wooden steps
Architecture studio BuildingWork drew upon historic buildings and Indigenous culture to create the cedar-clad La Conner Swinomish Library in a maritime community in the Pacific Northwest. More about BuildingWork references local culture in small Washington library
London studio Wright and Wright has completed the final phase of its redevelopment of St John's College at the University of Oxford, restoring two libraries and a 17th-century courtyard. More about Wright and Wright completes decade-long redevelopment of University of Oxford college
The spiral shape of a conch shell informed the Serpentine Bookhouse in Shenzhen, China, a library that has been designed by local architecture studio Atelier Xi. More about Spiralling library by Atelier Xi "unfolds like a scroll painting"
International architecture studio Snøhetta has broken ground on a new public library for Charlotte, North Carolina, which will feature a warped rectangular facade and generous cantilever. More about Snøhetta breaks ground on Charlotte library with "translucent prow"
Chicago-based architecture firm Studio Gang has been selected to renovate and expand the Clinton Presidential Center, a library and museum in Little Rock, Arkansas. More about Studio Gang to design Clinton Presidential Center expansion in Arkansas
Niger-based Atelier Masōmī has unveiled a library in Monrovia dedicated to Liberia's former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, which will contain exhibitions designed by South African architect Sumayya Vally. More about Atelier Masōmī designs raw-earth-brick presidential library in Liberia
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features Heatherwick Studio's designs for its first public library, a plant-covered building in Maryland, US. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features "instant icon" library by Heatherwick Studios
Canadian studio Superkül has updated the reading room at the University of Toronto's Robarts Library, a notable example of brutalist architecture. More about Superkül renovates reading room at Toronto's brutalist Robarts Library
Czech studio Atak Architekti has added a metal-clad extension to a former rectory building to create a library and multifunctional community spaces for the city of Liberec in the Czech Republic. More about Atak Architekti creates Liberec library by restoring and extending a former rectory
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 about Space10 invites public into its Copenhagen HQ with kiosk-like design library
Colourful furnishings and large stretches of glass feature in a 1970s library building that has been updated by US studio Hacker Architects. More about Hacker overhauls "fortress-like" brutalist library in Oregon
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 about MVRDV reveals plans for Wuhan Library with "stepped terraces of books"
Sculptural walls and tangerine hues feature in a public library by New York studio WORKac that is housed in a former torpedo factory. More about WORKac blends old and new at Adams Street Library in Brooklyn
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 about Bruno Gaudin Architectes completes 15-year transformation of National Library of France
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 about Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli unites old and new at town library in Italy