Architizer

AUGUST 5, 2022

Libraries are defined by a personal and collective exchange. As cornerstones of civic life, these buildings promote understanding and celebrate curiosity. Today, libraries are rapidly evolving to meet modern technological and collective demands as they anticipate future trends. Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library.

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Archinect

APRIL 18, 2024

This project includes approximately 264,000 square feet of below-ground space and another 210,000 square feet of offices defined by a series of nine exponentially taller green-roofed buildings supported by a 300,000-square-foot podium. Adamson Associates and PMA Landscape Architects are also included in the design team.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Architectural charity Twentieth Century Society has made a bid for architect Will Alsop 's Peckham Library to become the first 21st-century building in the UK to receive protected status. Opened in 2000, Peckham Library was designed by Alsop's studio Alsop and Störmer and won the Stirling Prize the same year.

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Archinect

APRIL 15, 2024

” Over the following decades, the firm has built a portfolio including educational, commercial, and community projects which have garnered over 150 awards, including an AIA/ALA Library Building Award for their Slover Library in Norfolk, VA.

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Archinect

JANUARY 19, 2024

Johnston Architects, in association with James Cutler Architects, designed the new library for the city of Maple Valley. Large vine maples frame the entry to the building. Walls of windows in each corner and high clerestories along the length of the building extend the library’s connection to nature through airy design.

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Archinect

MARCH 14, 2024

As the central library for the City of Toronto, and the largest public reference library in Canada, the Toronto Reference Library (TRL) houses some two million books, renowned special collections and vital community services.

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Archinect

APRIL 25, 2023

The five best examples of library projects from across the country have been honored as part of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and American Library Association (ALA) 2023 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards. Minneapolis-based MSR Design was notable as the only practice to place two projects on this year's list.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 13, 2024

Dubbed “Domus Ex Machina,” the event showcased a range of innovations, such as an AI Architect created for home design and construction, a digital library containing over 60 pre-designed home plans, a new eco-friendly building material , and a robotic printed facilitating multi-story construction. Read more »

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BD+C

APRIL 4, 2019

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association will award six libraries with the 2019 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards for excellence in architectural design. You will find each project and a brief description from the AIA below. For more information, click the project name or image. .

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Archinect

AUGUST 24, 2023

Snøhetta ’s Charlotte Mecklenburg Library (CML) project officially broke ground on August 15th in North Carolina with a demolition celebration of the existing Main Library building. Designed in collaboration with Clark Nexsen , the new library aims to become a major destination and centerpiece in Uptown Charlotte.

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 5, 2024

Used to let light in with its translucent properties, buildings built with polycarbonate can appear permeable by day and glow from within by night. Through its use in schools, offices, libraries and even museums , the man-made polymer has earned its place by being as efficient as it is expressive.

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

225 Polk, a former Nashville Public Library building, has undergone an adaptive reuse project to become the new HQ for Hastings Architecture. The building also houses the United Talent Agency and space for McAlpine, a residential architecture and interior design firm.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Snøhetta has recently unveiled designs for a new 12,000-square-foot library project in the Bronx ’s Westchester Square it says will expand on the diverse neighborhood’s lineage as a “place where knowledge is acquired and shared for generations to come.”

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Archinect

MARCH 11, 2024

The Center is slated to include three other buildings: the main museum tower from TWBTA , a new Chicago Public Library branch, and a forum/auditorium space with an indoor winter garden, completed by Maya Lin's water garden design and a 19.3-acre acre landscaped design by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Mudu Library, Shanghai by Atelier Diameter. Mudu Library is an industrialized model building located in an open space which will be developed into an urban public green space in future. Named after Mudugang River besides the project, the building is designed to be a riverside reading room.

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Archinect

MARCH 15, 2024

This is a complex facility built in a small rural town, combining a library and a day service for the elderly. On the other hand, the library room on the second floor uses frameless vacuum triple glazing and is fully open to the courtyard in the center of the building. The square of sky carved out changes moment by moment.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Given each year to the UK’s best new building, the winning scheme was unveiled at an event at RIBA headquarters in London. The firm was awarded the prize for their The New Library, Magdalene College — the first college to win the Stirling Prize.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The new survey counted 126 religious sites, 150 buildings of historical and/or artistic interest, 31 museums, 19 monuments, 14 libraries, and one archive. Among the most significant damaged sites are the National Palace of Arts in Kyiv and many buildings in the endangered historic city center of Ode.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Montreal’s Maisonneuve Library has reopened to the public following a major restoration and expansion of the historic building. Image credit: Adrien Williams Image credit: Adrien Williams At the center of the project is the original 1912 building, which was rehabilitated to restore its “original splendor.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Large wooden beams frame the interiors of L'échappée, a multimedia library in France designed by local practice Atelier WOA as an alternative to "institutional and cold" public buildings. It] embodies the simple paradox of a landmark building that seeks to blend into its environment," it continued.

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Archinect

MAY 19, 2023

New York City is suing the architects behind the Hunters Point Library for tens of millions of dollars over portions of the structure not being accessible to people with handicaps, in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act. [.] The city’s lawsuit was filed May 17 in state Supreme Court in Manhattan.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

International studio Snøhetta has completed Beijing City Library in China , a glass-lined building filled with towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. The Beijing City Library has an intergenerational quality about it, where you would pass on your stories to children and introduce them to the titles you've loved.”

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ArchDaily

MARCH 6, 2024

A series of recent projects showcase the direction that the emirate is building towards, based on its heritage and the richness of its desert and coast, while focusing on culture and education, aiming for a sustainable development model. But this time Doha was not the connection, it was the destination. Read more »

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World Architecture Community

JANUARY 3, 2022

Norwegian practice Snøhetta is building a new library that features a ginkgo forest-like canopy supporting “-metre-heig #architecture #design #arch. 03.01.2022

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ArchDaily

MAY 21, 2023

© Alejandro Ojeda The Centro Cultural García Márquez is an iconic building located in downtown Bogotá. Its sinuous forms and the dialogue it establishes between time and place are perceptible at various scales. The project was initiated by the Fondo de Cultura Económica de México in 2004 as a cultural contribution by its Colombian branch.

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Archinect

MAY 28, 2023

From outstanding residential projects to commercial designs, and educational buildings, these firms utilize their profile's project section to stand out. Riverside Main Library by Johnson Favaro Image courtesy of the firm. Explore 12 standout projects below. Looking for new employment opportunities?

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ArchDaily

AUGUST 6, 2023

Founded 20 years ago, this library is situated on the 5th floor of a government building, with neighboring markets and a nursery downstairs in New. Completed in 2023 in Taiwan. Images by YHLAA.

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APRIL 30, 2023

The Eugene Public Library Foundation’s premier annual fundraising event, Booked for the Evening , took place yesterday evening at the downtown Eugene Public Library. The Foundation chose the downtown Library itself as the venue for Booked 2023. It’s hard to believe the “new” Eugene Public Library is already two decades old.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Later, as a leader in the firm of Morris*Aubry, Aubry was the designer of numerous important Houston buildings of the 1970s and 80's. These projects include the the downtown Central Library, First City Tower and the Glassell School of Art. One of their best known projects was the Rice University Art barn and Media Center.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Organized by the Center for Architecture in collaboration with numerous partners, Archtober is once again presenting its popular Building of the Day series, inviting New Yorkers and visitors to explore significant buildings and sites through tours led by architects and other design professionals. Photo: Michael Moran.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

TenBerke has been announced as the lead architect for a major new commission that will deliver a new home for The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) from the city’s former Family Court Building at an important nexus in its expanding cultural precinct.

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Avontuura

APRIL 13, 2023

The new building comprises a temple, library, chapels, meeting spaces, a public foyer and catering kitchen within newly landscaped grounds. The post James Gorst Architects completes temple complex in rural Hampshire appeared first on Åvontuura.

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Deezen

MARCH 29, 2024

Conceived as a memorial to the clients' father, the curvilinear complex was designed to serve the surrounding Nokha district villages and integrates a courtyard, amphitheatre, library and museum behind an undulating sandstone facade.

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Archinect

JUNE 21, 2023

Image credit: TenBerke The building, known as “The Barn,” has hosted foundation-supported artists for over 50 years. Housed in a former horse stable dating back to the 1920s, the scheme will house artists as part of the Edward F. Albee Foundation.

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Architects for Urbanity

MARCH 5, 2019

Architects for Urbanity have revealed the updated images for their much anticipated Varna Library project, three years after they won the open competition and the subsequent commission to further develop the project. The new Varna Library will provide a multitude of services and activities for the city and the citizens of all ages.

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Portland Architecture

MAY 16, 2023

I’m frankly not that concerned with architectural fame or anything like that,” Thomas Hacker told me on a 2005 tour of the Hillsdale library, another jewel in the Multnomah County system. “I’m Hacker even got to work on two of Kahn’s masterpieces, the Kimble Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and the capital building in Dacca, Bangladesh.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2023

Czech studio Atak Architekti has added a metal-clad extension to a former rectory building to create a library and multifunctional community spaces for the city of Liberec in the Czech Republic. A new piazzetta is created, inspired by the rhythm of small squares in the vicinity of the public buildings," it continued. "A

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