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Grade II-listed Oxford college library updated with oak-lined interiors

May 16, 2024 Starr Charles 0

British architecture studios Nex and Donald Insall Associates have renovated the neo-gothic Exeter College Library at the University of Oxford, originally constructed by George Gilbert Scott in 1857. Addressing a need for additional study spaces and improved accessibility of the Grade II-listed building, the studios implemented a series of contemporary interventions including the addition of

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Grade II-listed Oxford college library updated with oak-lined interiors

May 16, 2024 Starr Charles 0

British architecture studios Nex and Donald Insall Associates have renovated the neo-gothic Exeter College Library at the University of Oxford, originally constructed by George Gilbert Scott in 1857. Addressing a need for additional study spaces and improved accessibility of the Grade II-listed building, the studios implemented a series of contemporary interventions including the addition of

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Parallel Studio creates Mariam’s Library for young students in Zanzibar

May 5, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Architecture practice Parallel Studio has punctured the white walls of this children’s library in Zanzibar with small holes, providing natural ventilation and casting shadows across books inside. Named Mariam’s Library, the building occupies an empty plot in the village of Mwanyanya and is designed as an “inviting and inclusive environment conducive to learning, creativity, and

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Dezeen Debate features Snøhetta library with a “feeling of extravagance”

February 29, 2024 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features Beijing City Library in China by Snøhetta. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. The Beijing City Library in China, designed by Norwegian studio Snøhetta, features a glass-lined structure punctuated by towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. Commenters analysed the structure closely, with one characterising it as

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Atelier WOA creates long timber-framed library in France

February 27, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

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. Occupying a long narrow site in Herblay sur Seine, L’échappée – meaning “escapade” in English – faces a road to the north with a stone and glass facade

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Snøhetta creates library to emulate feeling of “sitting under a tree”

February 26, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

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. Located in Beijing’s Tongzhou district, the library was designed by Snøhetta to “reinstate the library’s relevance in the 21st century” and aims to offer a “new vision” for the typology. Its design

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Atelier Xi creates angular library within Chinese tea plantation

February 14, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Five interconnected, angular volumes form this library and tea-tasting room designed by Chinese architecture studio Atelier Xi on an ice-chrysanthemum plantation in Xiuwu, China. Designed to resemble a “miniature village”, the library by Atelier Xi draws on the silhouette of the local village houses, as well as the composition of petals on a chrysanthemum flower.

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Studio Hinge creates library spaces beneath tree-like wooden columns

October 30, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Indian practice Studio Hinge has completed Forest of Knowledge, a library in Mumbai that sits beneath a tree-like canopy of latticed wood. The library was designed for the Cricket Club of India, a member’s club dating back to the 1930s that is housed in an art deco building in southern Mumbai. Adapting the third floor

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Yukawa Design Lab arranges Shirasagi Children’s Library around playful wooden steps

October 26, 2023 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studio Yukawa Design Lab has created a children’s library overlooking Shirasagi Park in Sakai, Japan. Connected by a bridge to the neighbouring park, Yukawa Design Lab designed the timber-framed building with large windows to connect it to the green space. On the ground floor, the 192-square-metre building has an infant zone and cafe along with outdoor

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BuildingWork references local culture in small Washington library

October 13, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Architecture studio BuildingWork drew upon historic buildings and Indigenous culture to create the cedar-clad La Conner Swinomish Library in a maritime community in the Pacific Northwest. The building is located in La Conner, a small town along the Swinomish Channel in northern Washington. Situated along a main street in the town’s historic district, the building

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