Architecture firm Snøhetta has released images of a new library it has designed for a Philadelphia university, stating that it aims to challenge the "traditional typology of the research library" (+ slideshow). More
Architecture firm SOM incorporated principles from Feng Shui, the ancient Chinese design philosophy, while conceiving the new Chinatown Branch Library in Chicago (+ slideshow). More
Railway sleepers form the walls of this extension to a library in Azkoitia, Spain, which is located at the town's former railway station. More
This miniature wooden library for a Toronto suburb is designed to provide a public reading nook and book exchange, and folds into a box at night for security (+ slideshow). More
The oxidised-steel walls and prefabricated construction of this community library and sports centre near Newcastle, England, are influenced by the region's ship-building heritage (+ slideshow). More
The New York Public Library has selected Mecanoo – the Dutch architecture firm behind Europe's biggest library – to lead the renovation of its iconic main building on Fifth Avenue and a smaller branch nearby. More
A double-height space filled with rare vinyl records and magazines is the centrepiece of this music library and venue in Seoul, which was commissioned by credit card company Hyundai Card as a free space for its members (+ slideshow). More
Mexican firm Anagrama has installed a dome of interlocking wood panels at a library in Monterrey, creating bookshelves that arch over a stepped reading area (+ slideshow). More
A sawtooth roof with integrated skylights and solar panels gives this library and cultural centre in Denmark an industrial aesthetic that references its location at an old furniture factory (+ slideshow). More
Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has revised its competition-winning design for the renovation of Mies van der Rohe's Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library in Washington DC. More
The front and rear facades of this library in Zoersel, Belgium, have been divided up into house-sized volumes to help the large building fit into its residential context (+ slideshow). More
Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has completed a 30,000-square-metre library in Aarhus, Denmark, with a faceted metal-clad volume on top and a new train station underneath (+ slideshow). More
This cast-concrete library sits on a stretch of deserted beach facing the East China Sea and features a tiered reading hall topped by a curving ceiling (+ movie). More
A colossal iron staircase bursts through the medieval stone walls of this fortified tower in rural Italy and into a copper-clad extension, as part of a renovation by local studio Gianluca Gelmini (+ slideshow). More
This library extension in the centre of Bruges is covered in sheets of pre-rusted Corten steel, deliberately contrasting the white plasterwork of the original building (+ slideshow). More
Chicago is expected to be named as the location for the Obama presidential library next week, with David Adjaye tipped to be the project's architect. More
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has unveiled its design for a new library in Christchurch, New Zealand, to replace the building left wrecked after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes (+ slideshow). More
The chunky quartzite walls of this library on the outskirts of Paris are faceted to accommodate the span of a century-old walnut tree at the centre of the site (+ slideshow). More
Strips of golden aluminium cover this performing arts school and library designed by Ateliers O-S Architectes to stretch across a hillside in a Parisian suburb (+ slideshow). More
News: parts of Zaha Hadid Architects' Library and Learning Centre in Vienna have been cordoned off after a piece of concrete cladding fell off. More