Library
Library architecture is evolving fast, and this category collects the projects leading the change. Explore public and academic libraries where reading rooms, community spaces, and digital services meet inspired design. Each feature offers photos, drawings, and analysis of how architects keep the library relevant in the twenty-first century.
Adit: Discovering New Gem
Since Broken Hill’s mineral reserves have diminished in the 1960’s, the prosperity and energy of the now heritage-listed town has declined at an...
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Metropolitan Library
Metropolitan Library reimagines a 1980s building at the entrance of Manchester Metropolitan University as a contemporary library centred on student wellbeing and mental...
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Relight V&D Haarlem: Daylighting in a Former Department Store
Relight V&D Haarlem reimagines a vacant former department store as a daylight-filled public library in the centre of Haarlem, The Netherlands. Designed as...
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The Loving Community
The Loving Community is a very special housing colony created for former leprosy patients and their families in Ahmedabad. Migrants from southern parts...
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Wood Library
Mıstık Park is located in Istanbul Teşvikiye Street. Park, Nisantasi Akkavak Street, which is one of the most important streets of City’s Shopping...
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Songdo Library Competition Entry
The Songdo Library Competition Entry is a proposal that looks to the future by learning from tradition, designed by Manuel A. Monteserín Lahoz...
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Dream Library Concept
The refurbishment of the library and archive building of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art became the second stage of FORM Bureau’s work with...
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Public Library Concept
The Public Library Concept reimagines a civic reading hub in Nea Ionia of Volos, Greece, as a place that serves both local residents...
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