Libraries

MVRDV reveals plans for “stepped terraces of books” in Wuhan Library

January 10, 2023 James Parkes 0

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has unveiled designs for a 140,000 square metre library in Wuhan, China, with a sweeping form that takes cues from the topography of its surroundings. Set to become one of China’s biggest libraries and a landmark for the central, Chinese city, the Wuhan Library will be located beside the Baofend Overpass

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WORKac blends old and new at Adams Street Library in Brooklyn

January 2, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Sculptural walls and tangerine hues feature in a public library by New York studio WORKac that is housed in a former torpedo factory. Adams Street Library is the first new branch established by the Brooklyn library system in more than 20 years. Situated along the East River under the Manhattan Bridge, the library is within

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Bruno Gaudin Architectes completes 15-year transformation of National Library of France

December 27, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

French practice Bruno Gaudin Architectes has completed a 15-year project to renovate and open up the historic rue de Richelieu site of the National Library of France in Paris, incorporating new public routes and spaces. Completed in the late 19th century by architect Henri Labrouste, the library is considered a masterpiece of the Beaux Arts

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Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli unites old and new at town library in Italy

December 21, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Italian architecture studio Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli has completed the Brixen Public Library in South Tyrol, uniting a cluster of old civic buildings with a contemporary, angular addition. Overlooking Brixen’s central square alongside the town’s cathedral and Bishop’s Palace, the project combines three former finance, court and prison buildings. “This is not a library intended as

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C20 campaigns for Peckham Library to be made UK’s first 21st-century listed building

December 12, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0

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. The Twentieth Century Society (C20) submitted an application to make Peckham Library a grade II*-listed building to protect it from plans to add “intrusive new rooftop plant

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MAD’s undulating concrete library “doesn’t say too much” says Ma Yansong

November 17, 2022 Calum Lindsay 0

In the first instalment of Dezeen’s Concrete Icons series produced in collaboration with Holcim, MAD Architects founder Ma Yansong explains how his studio’s sinuous concrete library in Haikou, China, encourages visitors to use their imagination. Yansong is the first participant in Concrete Icons, a video series profiling the most iconic contemporary concrete buildings by the

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Studio Weave adds wood-lined community space to east London library

November 5, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture practice Studio Weave has added a wood-lined community centre to Lea Bridge Library in east London, with a red-concrete colonnade that references the original grade II-listed redbrick building. Built in 1905 in the Edwardian style, Lea Bridge Library in Waltham Forest backs onto a large green space called Friendship Gardens, which the new community

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Crawshaw Architects transforms cow shed into Stanbridge Mill Library

October 18, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

London studio Crawshaw Architects has transformed a former cow shed in Dorset into a library and office, organised around a wooden, barrel-vaulted arcade that references the client’s collection of books on classical Palladian architecture. The Stanbridge Mill Library, which has been shortlisted in the civic and cultural interiors category of Dezeen Awards 2022, is one

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The New Library at Magdalene College by Niall McLaughlin Architects wins 2022 Stirling Prize

October 13, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

A brick and timber library that Niall McLaughlin Architects created for the University of Cambridge has been revealed as the winner of the 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize. Hailed by the jury as “solid and confident”, The New Library at Magdalene College is the 26th recipient of the prestigious award, which is the most significant in UK

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Atelier Tao+C creates serene timber and travertine reading room

October 12, 2022 Ali Morris 0

Two vacant ground-floor rooms and an adjoining greenhouse were knocked together and lined with bookshelves to form this private library, designed by Atelier Tao+C for a venture capital firm in Shanghai. Set in a converted 1980s house, which is home to the offices of VC fund Whales Capital, the reading room can accommodate up to

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