Tag Libraries

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.

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.

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.