Tag Libraries

14-11-2018

Takao Shiotsuka Atelier: Public library in Taketa, Japan

Takao Shiotsuka responds to the city of Taketa’s need for a new public library with a project reflecting the urban scale on which the town is built. Takao Shiotsuka has come up with a diagonal layout to fit the building into a fragmented lot, turning it inward.

28-09-2018

Wuguan Books, an unusual bookstore by Chu Chih-kang Space Design

A bookstore right off the contemporary architecture tracks: Wuguan Books by Chu Chih-kang Space Design in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan is nothing at all like the current wave of huge, hyper-technological bookstores.

19-09-2018

Akihisa Hirata: Art Museum and Library Ota, Japan

With the project for the Art Museum and Library of Ota in Japan, Akihisa Hirata has redeveloped the area of the north entrance to a railway station and encouraged pedestrian traffic towards the historic city centre.

03-08-2018

Steel circles on the façade of Mecanoo’s Birmingham Library

The new Birmingham Library that replaces the old building is connected with the REP Theatre to create an urban landmark for the whole city, particularly young people, adding an interesting new project to Mecanoo’s curriculum

23-07-2018

Wutopia Lab designs an all-white bookstore in Xi’an, China

Shanghai-based architecture studio, Wutopia Lab recently completed a bookstore of the Zhongshu chain in Xi'an, one of China's oldest cities, and the capital of thirteen dynasties.

20-07-2018

Crossings, an architecture workshop in Calabria on the border between tradition and present

Belmonte Calabro in the province of Cosenza hosted the third edition of Crossings, an architectural design workshop.

13-07-2018

MVRDV’s glass and glulam pyramid of books

Dutch architects MVRDV designed a multi-purpose neighbourhood library with a pyramid shape that reconciles its cultural functions with businesses and social facilities for the neighbourhood

04-07-2018

Le KAAN Architecten Utopia Library and Academy of Performing Arts in Aalst, Belgium

Utopia, the Library and Academy of Performing Arts completed recently by KAAN Architecten, redesigns parts of the historic town centre of Aalst, underlining its urban context and incorporating a late nineteenth-century historic building into the new complex.