Libraries

Xiangmi Science Library connected to park by glazed walkway through treetops

August 11, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Cantilevered metal roofs shade the glazed walls of this library designed by MLA+, which is connected by a treetop walkway to Shenzhen’s Xiangmi Park. Global architecture studio MLA+ designed the Xiangmi Science Library as part of its masterplan to regenerate Xiangmi Park, which is found in the Chinese city’s central Futian District. The park was originally used

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Kaan Architecten’s Utopia combines music school and library

July 9, 2018 Anna Winston 0

Kaan Architecten has extended a 19th century school to create the Utopia building in Aalst, Belgium, which contains a music school and library. Utopia, the Library and Academy for Performing Arts, is named after the book by Thomas Moore, which was first printed in Aalst. Kaan Architecten won a competition to overhaul an existing block

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OMA’s Qatar National Library opens in Doha

April 19, 2018 India Block 0

Dutch architecture firm OMA has completed its Qatar National Library building in Doha, which features tiers of marble bookcases set within a single open-plan space. The OMA-designed building, which opened earlier this week, houses several collections of Qatar’s most important texts and manuscripts on Arab-Islamic civilisation. Initial images of the library’s angular concrete exterior emerged on social media as

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Alabama architecture students convert historic bank into library for rural town

December 13, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

A brick bank building in Alabama dating to the early 1900s has been transformed into a community library by Rural Studio, a student design-build programme dedicated to social projects. The Newbern Library is located in a town of the same name with less than 200 residents, and was converted by fifth-year architecture students at Auburn

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Alabama architecture students convert historic bank into library for rural town

December 13, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

A brick bank building in Alabama dating to the early 1900s has been transformed into a community library by Rural Studio, a student design-build programme dedicated to social projects. The Newbern Library is located in a town of the same name with less than 200 residents, and was converted by fifth-year architecture students at Auburn

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Mecanoo reveals renovation plans for New York Public Library

November 16, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has unveiled its masterplan to overhaul the New York Public Library’s main beaux-arts building on Fifth Avenue. The newly released visuals and details reveal Mecanoo’s intentions for the Stephen A Schwarzman Building – the library’s main branch at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street – which the studio has developed with local

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David Adjaye’s red library and events complex in Florida wins approval

November 15, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

British architect David Adjaye’s plans to create a “micro village” of red cultural buildings in Florida’s Winter Park have been granted planning permission. Adjaye Associates won approval for the $30 million (£22.7 million) project from the Winter Park City Commission earlier this week. The Winter Park Public Library and Events Center will replace the existing civic

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Winning design revealed for new library at London’s brutalist Thamesmead estate

November 13, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Architecture studio Bisset Adams has won a competition to design a lakeside library and community centre in southeast London, as part of a major overhaul of the brutalist Thamesmead estate. Bisset Adams will build the Southmere Village Library to the south bank of Southmere Lake, right beside the the sprawling concrete housing estate that was made infamous by the film adaptation

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MVRDV completes library shaped like a giant eye in Chinese city Tianjin

November 4, 2017 India Block 0

Dutch firm MVRDV has built a public library that looks like a huge eye, as part of a new cultural district in Tianjin, China. The atrium of the Tianjin Binhai Public Library is deliberately designed to look like a 3D eyeball, staring out through the building’s glazed facade. The five-storey-high space is framed by floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, which are staggered at different levels to

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OFIS Arhitekti uses modular Living Units to create pop-up library overlooking Ljubljana

October 29, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti has found a new use for the micro house it designed earlier this year – the modular structure recently served as a temporary library in the grounds of Ljubljana Castle. OFIS Arhitekti worked in collaboration with fellow architects C+C and C28, engineering firm AKT and contractor Permiz to create the Living Units – modular rooms that

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