Libraries

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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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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Wright and Wright completes decade-long redevelopment of University of Oxford college

October 4, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

London studio Wright and Wright has completed the final phase of its redevelopment of St John’s College at the University of Oxford, restoring two libraries and a 17th-century courtyard. Carried out in three main stages, the project was conceived by Wright and Wright 10 years ago to revamp and expand facilities at St John’s College,

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Spiralling library by Atelier Xi “unfolds like a scroll painting”

September 23, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

The spiral shape of a conch shell informed the Serpentine Bookhouse in Shenzhen, China, a library that has been designed by local architecture studio Atelier Xi. Located in the Dasha River Ecological Corridor, the 300-square-metre building by Atelier Xi provides a children’s reading room, public restrooms and a viewing balcony with seating areas for visitors and

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Snøhetta breaks ground on Charlotte library with “translucent prow”

August 29, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

International architecture studio Snøhetta has broken ground on a new public library for Charlotte, North Carolina, which will feature a warped rectangular facade and generous cantilever. The new 115,000 square foot (10,680 square metre) Charlotte Mecklenburg Library will serve as the city’s main library branch, a community space and as a future connection to surrounding

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Studio Gang to design Clinton Presidential Center expansion in Arkansas

August 10, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Chicago-based architecture firm Studio Gang has been selected to renovate and expand the Clinton Presidential Center, a library and museum in Little Rock, Arkansas. Studio Gang was chosen by The Clinton Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded by former US president Bill Clinton, to expand the programming of the current building. The program also calls for

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