Chinese architecture studio MAD has completed the Cloudscape of Haikou, a sinuous library and waystation that is cast in seamless white concrete on the coast of the Chinese island of Hainan. More about MAD completes amorphous concrete library in China
Helsinki-based JKMM Architects has renovated and extended a library named Fyyri in the Finnish town of Kirkkonummi. More about JKMM Architects extends 1980s library to create "public living room" for Kirkkonummi
Dominique Coulon & Associés has converted a manor house in the French town of Pélissanne into a library with a glass-fronted extension that looks onto a leafy public park. More about Dominique Coulon & Associés adds curved glass extension to library in a renovated French manor
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes a library in Norway designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates in collaboration with Mad Arkitekter. More about A library in Norway designed by Kengo Kuma features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Architecture studios Hawkins\Brown and Schmidt Hammer Lassen have won planning approval for a blocky library building at the University of Bristol. More about Hawkins\Brown and Schmidt Hammer Lassen design university library as "new landmark for Bristol"
Kengo Kuma and Associates has collaborated with Mad Arkitekter on the design of a library that will curve around existing trees in a small urban park in Skien, Norway. More about Kengo Kuma designs curved library dedicated to Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen
Mecanoo has unveiled its design for Macau's new central library, which will have a gridded, light-filtering facade that opens up like a book to a public square. More about Mecanoo designs Macau Central Library with light-filtering facade informed by books
A slender roof cantilevers from all sides of The House of Wisdom, a tech-filled library that Foster + Partners has designed in Sharjah, UAE for the "digital future". More about Foster + Partners crowns Sharjah library with giant cantilevered roof
Woods Bagot has completed a library building at a girls' boarding school in Wiltshire, England, that features a faceted wooden ceiling designed to evoke spreading tree branches. More about Woods Bagot tops school library with "tree-like" timber ceiling
Patterned aluminium panels wrap the stepped exterior of the Tainan Public Library, which Dutch studio Mecanoo and local office MAYU Architects have completed in southern Taiwan. More about Mecanoo cloaks palatial Tainan Public Library with decorative aluminium cladding
Chinese architecture studio MAD has released construction photos of its sinuous Wormhole Library after the building topped out on Haikou Bay in Hainan. More about Wormhole Library by MAD nears completion in China
Chinese studio Open Architecture has designed a theatre and library at the Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe International School China within a blue-coloured building that resembles a whale. More about Open Architecture combines library and theatre in "blue whale" Bibliotheater
Eight domed structures built from rammed earth will distinguish the Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library that architecture studio Adjaye Associates is developing in Johannesburg, South Africa. More about Rammed-earth domes will define Adjaye Associates' Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library
Chinese architecture studio MAD has designed a library in Haikou on the Chinese island of Hainan that is intended "to be a wormhole that transcends time and space". More about MAD reveals Wormhole Library overlooking the South China Sea
Oslo's long-awaited Deichman Bjørvika central library, which stands alongside the Snøhetta-designed opera house on the city's waterfront, has opened to the public in Norway. More about Atelier Oslo and Lundhagem unveil Oslo's "huge but intimate" central library
Architecture firms Snøhetta, Studio Gang and Henning Larsen have been shortlisted to design a presidential library for Theodore Roosevelt in Medora, North Dakota. More about Snøhetta, Studio Gang and Henning Larsen compete to design Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library
A hill-like green roof with a skylight helps to blend this public library by Toronto architecture firm RDHA into its grassy surrounds. More about Grassy hill forms skylight over RDHA's Springdale Public Library near Toronto
Architecture firm Shau has built a library in Semarang, Indonesia, featuring a grand staircase, a net floor and a large communal swing. More about Microlibrary Warak Kayu features a hammock-style floor and a swing
Steimle Architekten has converted a former barn in the village of Kressbronn am Bodensee, Germany, into a library and community centre with glazed openings screened by angled vertical louvres. More about Steimle Architekten transforms traditional German barn into Kressbronn Library
Canadian firm Diamond Schmitt Architects has revealed a new building for Ottawa's public library system, featuring a curvilinear roof and glass walls that offer expansive views of the city. More about Diamond Schmitt Architects designs Ottawa public library and archive centre with wavy roof