Tag Libraries

11-01-2019

Tingbjerg library, a COBE project with a brick baguette façade

COBE’s Tingbjerk library is a provocative and seductive brick-faced prism that goes beyond classic traditional construction schemes

02-01-2019

Snøhetta+DIALOG: new central library in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Assiduously used by half the population of the city of Calgary, in Canada, the central library now has new premises designed by Snøhetta+DIALOG. The ambitious mission of Calgary Central Library is to stitch back together the city’s Downtown and East Village.

07-12-2018

Exhibitions about reconstruction and the built environment at Triennale di Milano

Triennale di Milano hosts two exhibitions addressing the theme of reconstruction. “Ricostruzioni. Architettura, città e paesaggio nell’epoca delle distruzioni” (“Reconstruction: Architecture, city and landscape in the age of destruction”) opened on November 30 , while “re/build in the built environment” opens on December 14 looking at the relationship between architecture and the built environment.

21-11-2018

Highlights of the 16th Architecture Biennale in Venice, Giardini and Forte Marghera

We conclude our reports from the 16th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, FREESPACE with a look at the Giardini, focusing in particular on two proposals from Scandinavia, the Finland pavilion and the work by Rintala Eggertson Architects at Forte Marghera.

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.