Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects chosen for Obama Presidential Library
Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have won the long-running competition to design the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago. More
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Renzo Piano completes Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on a huge artificial hill
Italian architect Renzo Piano has finished a major new park, library and theatre complex in Athens, following one of the largest donations for a cultural building project in history (+ slideshow). More
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Eye-like library by MVRDV nears completion in China
Dutch firm MVRDV has revealed its designs for a library with an eye-shaped atrium, which is nearing completion in Tianjin, China (+ slideshow). More
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Bing Thom combines curves and points with library in British Columbia
Bing Thom Architects has completed a library near Vancouver featuring angled concrete walls, curved windows and a pointy corner that resembles a ship's bow (+ slideshow). More
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Gould Evans adds vibrant orange skin to Brutalist library in Kansas
US firm Gould Evans has revamped a 1970s concrete library in Kansas, wrapping the building in a terracotta rainscreen and adding modern amenities such as a recording studio (+ slideshow). More
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Herzog & de Meuron releases new images of National Library of Israel
Herzog & de Meuron has released further imagery of its curving, stone-clad National Library of Israel, which is now under construction and scheduled to complete in 2020 (+ slideshow). More
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AIA announces seven winners of library design awards
A library that spans a river and a 1970s building wrapped in terracotta panels are among the seven winning projects in the 2016 Library Building Awards from the American Institute of Architects (+ slideshow). More
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Collective Architecture extends sandstone building to create Glasgow Women's Library
The titles of important works of literature are engraved into the walls of this extension to a sandstone library in Glasgow, which has been refurbished to create a centre for women's history (+ slideshow). More
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Perforations create dappled lighting inside Coffey Architects' Science Museum research centre
Coffey Architects has added a library with a perforated facade to London's Science Museum, as part of a major redevelopment that will also include galleries by Muf, Wilkinson Eyre and the late Zaha Hadid. More
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Snøhetta unveils design for Temple University library in Philadelphia
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
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SOM creates a rounded library wrapped in aluminium fins for Chicago’s Chinatown
Architecture firm SOM incorporated principles from Feng Shui, the ancient Chinese design philosophy, while conceiving the new Chinatown Branch Library in Chicago (+ slideshow). More
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Estudio Beldarrain uses reclaimed railway sleepers to extend Spanish library
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
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Atelier Kastelic Buffey creates miniature book exchange that folds up into a glowing black box
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
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FaulknerBrowns Architects adds weathering steel facade to new Hebburn Central community centre
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
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Mecanoo replaces Foster + Partners on New York Public Library renovation
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
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Hyundai Card Music Library by Choi Moongyu is a lending library for vinyl records
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
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Wooden gridshell by Anagrama forms shelves inside a Mexico library
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
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Primus Arkitekter transforms Fritz Hansen factory into a library and cultural centre
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
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Mecanoo scales back additions to Mies van der Rohe's Washington DC library
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
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Omgeving's black brick library in Zoersel is subdivided into smaller blocks
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
