Tag Libraries

13-01-2021

Dietrich Untertrifaller: New Dornbirn public library

After winning the competition for a new public library in Dornbirn, Austria, Dietrich Untertrifaller has constructed a round pavilion with a unique façade covered with “books”. Inside the building are flexible spaces designed for digital education and for readers of all ages.

02-10-2020

A steel and glass addition to RDHA’s bookless library

A bookless library created out of the merger of a nineteenth-century building with a contemporary construction.

25-09-2020

Snøhetta selected as winner of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Competition

A design that mitigates the impact of the wind and of other climatic factors, a library to be constructed using local and renewable materials, yet setting new standards of sustainability thanks to sophisticated systems for controlling and managing energy consumption: these are some of the key elements which allowed the Snøhetta architecture studio to win the international design competition for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in the city of Medora, in North Dakota.

04-09-2020

Springdale Library by RDHA incorporates photosensitive components in the glass facade

Library incorporates photosensitive technical components in its glass facade

31-08-2020

Henning Larsen Architects unveils its design for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation shortlisted three architects practices, Henning Larsen, Snøhetta and Studio Gang, for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library project in Medora. Henning Larsen Architects recently presented its design inspired by the landscape of the Badlands region in North Dakota. The rugged landscape, with its buttes, had deep significance for former American President, Theodore Roosevelt. The winning design will be announced at the end of September 2020.

24-08-2020

MAD Architects Wormhole Library, a dreamscape in Haikou

A new library, designed by MAD architectural practice led by Chinese architect Ma Yansong, is due to be built in 2021 overlooking the South China Sea, on the coastline at Haikou in Hainan province, China. The recently released design features a pavilion with smooth curves reminiscent of a "wormhole", a tunnel that transcends time and space.

21-08-2020

House renovated and transformed into a concrete and steel bookshop by TAO Architects

An ancient home built of stone in a Chinese mountain village has been renovated for transformation into a bookshop.

17-07-2020

LocHal a library with “personal heating” by CIVIC

A big locomotive factory in Tilburg, in the Netherlands, has become a versatile library with an unusual feature: “personal heating”.