Tag Libraries

Tingbjerg library, a COBE project with a brick baguette façade

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

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

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.

Exhibitions about reconstruction and the built environment at Triennale di Milano

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.

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

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.

Takao Shiotsuka Atelier: Public library in Taketa, Japan

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.

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

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.

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