Libraries
Woods Bagot tops school library with “tree-like” timber ceiling
Mecanoo cloaks palatial Tainan Public Library with decorative aluminium cladding
Rammed-earth domes will define Adjaye Associates’ Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library
MAD reveals Wormhole Library overlooking the South China Sea
Grassy hill forms skylight over RDHA’s Springdale Public Library near Toronto
Microlibrary Warak Kayu features a hammock-style floor and a swing
Atelier Tao+C lines walls of capsule hotel with bamboo bookshelves
Wolfgang Tschapeller adds suspended bookshelves to Cornell University library
Snøhetta unveils North Carolina library with scooped front
John Ronan creates affordable housing in Chicago with colourful balconies and a library
White Red Architects completes members-only study room in The British Library
X+Living creates the illusion of a myriad of staircases at Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore
Wormhole Library by MAD nears completion in China
Open Architecture combines library and theatre in “blue whale” Bibliotheater
Atelier Oslo and Lundhagem unveil Oslo’s “huge but intimate” central library
Snøhetta, Studio Gang and Henning Larsen compete to design Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library
Steimle Architekten transforms traditional German barn into Kressbronn Library
Diamond Schmitt Architects designs Ottawa public library and archive centre with wavy roof
Hunters Point Library slapped with lawsuit for inaccessibility issues
Steven Holl dismisses concerns over new Long Island City library as “wrinkles”
Steven Holl punctures concrete New York library with “sculpted cuts”
Snøhetta designs Temple University’s Charles Library with “unusual geometry”
Emma Olbers Design adds new furnishings to The Old Library in Stockholm