Tag Libraries

19-11-2021

Mecanoo’s SNFL: renovation and expansion project on Fifth Avenue

The renovation of New York’s Mid-Manhattan Library by Mecanoo in association with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners has transformed the 1914 building into Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library.

25-10-2021

House of Wisdom designed by Foster+Partners seen through Shoayb Khattab’s lens

House of Wisdom, the large library designed by the Foster + Partners studio - and recalling Mies van der Rohe’s style - in Sharjah, Dubai, was the subject of the photographic project by director and photographer Shoayb Khattab, winning the prestigious Architizer+ 2021 award in the Photography + Video category.

15-10-2021

Bruno Gaudin Architectes Library La Contemporaine campus of the Université Paris Nanterre

On the campus of the Université Paris Nanterre, the new building of the “Bibliothèque de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine” designed by Atelier Bruno Gaudin Architectes, has been completed. The building, constructed at the entrance to the university campus, houses the library, the archive centre, the museum and the offices of La Contemporaine. This is a major French institution, a point of reference in the field of humanities and social sciences studies that preserves and collects documents and objects relating to the contemporary history of the 20th and 21st centuries.

16-09-2021

Duoyun bookstore in Taizhou designed by Wutopia Lab

Chinese architecture firm Wutopia Lab has designed a new library on the banks of the Yongning River in the typical water city of Taizhou. A project that starts from the transformation of a complex of disused buildings which, thanks to a white aluminium cladding has become a point of attraction in the local urban context.

18-08-2021

3andwich Design: Viti Books bookshop in Beijing

Viti Books, in the Daxing district, southern Beijing, aims to become a starting point for the rebirth of a new sort of social interaction. 3andwich Design is behind the interior design of the bookshop, having designated specific areas for adults and children, for leisure and concentration, where everyone can feel at home.

04-08-2021

UAD designs new Museum and Library in Jiashan, China

UAD – The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zheijiang University Co., Ltd. – has recently completed a new cultural complex in Jiashan, China. The city is an eco-friendly and green development demonstration area in the Yangtze River Delta, thus playing the important role of a laboratory for implementing new architectural and social solutions.

07-05-2021

A translucent façade with neon lighting for Carrollton Library

GWWO renovates Carrollton Library, a Brutalist building constructed in 1971, giving it a contemporary twist.

23-04-2021

Mecanoo’s steel structure for Tainan library

Mecanoo creates a bamboo forest of steel for Tainan library