library design
Library Design for Creating Community Spaces That Thrive
Explore how people-first library design turns libraries into civic living rooms. Learn principles for co-design, equity and inclusion, flexible and tech-enabled spaces, accessibility...
Sinan Ozen4 Mins read
Check In at China’s Kunming Industrial-Style Library: A Former Factory Transformed into a Provincial “Travel and Residence” Library
If you’re captivated by unique architectural spaces and enchanted by the ambiance of books, then this “hidden gem” in Kunming, China, is a...
Furkan Sen3 Mins read
Russian National Library: Classics of Classicism
The Russian National Library in Saint Petersburg isn’t just another grand old building filled with books—it’s a living monument to knowledge. It’s where...
illustrarch Editoral Team6 Mins read
Transforms the Graded School Library
Zénite Arquitetura & Construção transforms the Graded School library into a unique reading experience São Paulo, 2024 – Zénite Arquitetura & Construção, with...
illustrarch Editoral Team2 Mins read
San Francisco Public Library
Designing in cities like San Francisco represents a great architectural challenge due to the struggle between urbanistic need for growth and natural dangers...
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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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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...
illustrarch Editoral Team1 Mins read
