Tag Libraries

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

22-06-2018

David Chipperfield Architects Amorepacific Headquarters in Seoul

June 15 saw the inauguration of a new project by David Chipperfield Architects: the headquarters of Amorepacific, an important Korean cosmetics and personal care group. The building is more than just the headquarters of a big company: it also includes public spaces such as a museum, a big auditorium, a library and facilities for children.

21-05-2018

Farewell to Will Alsop, the architect who designed Peckham Library

Will Alsop, the architect who designed Peckham Library, the first library to win the RIBA Stirling Prize for Building of the Year, in 2000, has passed away at the age of 70 after a brief illness.

17-04-2018

Dominique Perrault - La Bibliothèque nationale de France portrait d’un projet 1988 -1998

20 years after the inauguration of the research room, Bibliothèque nationale de France presents an exhibition telling the complete story of the genesis of an emblematic contemporary architecture project designed by Dominique Perrault.

09-03-2018

A new design for the Instituto Cervantes of London by Binom Architects

The designers from Binom Architects redesigned the new Instituto Cervantes in London, inside a Neo-Georgian building dating from the 1950s.

02-02-2018

Vienna, 650 years of the Austrian National Library

Libraries are a treasure trove of knowledge.

12-01-2018

Hot curved double-glazing for Maranello Library designed by Andrea Maffei Associati

A curved glass library in a residential district in Maranello, in central Italy

27-12-2017

MVRDV: Tianjin Binhai Library

The media have given the Tianjin Binhai Library, completed by MVRDV in Tianjin, a coastal city near Beijing, a standing ovation. Highly symbolic, with a great visual impact, Tianjin Binhai Library is part of the masterplan for the city’s new cultural district.