Culture Yard Elsinore: Helsingoer Building

Kulturværftet Helsingør Building

Design: aart architects – new photos

17.000sqm cultural centre in an old ship yard. It contains concert halls, public library, showrooms and conference rooms. The design won an open international architecture competition. The building is adjacent to Danish Maritime Museum by BIG and Kronborg Castle immortalized in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet.

Dokk1 Urban Mediaspace Aarhus Library

Dokk1

Designed by SHL Architects as a polygonal slice hovering above a glazed building, that rests on a podium with large sculptural stairs. These stairs fan out down to the new harbour promenade surrounding the building.

Suzhou Library Building

Suzhou Library Building in China

Fully automated high-bay storage building for 7 million books, unique in China. Design competition win by German architecture studio for a new building Xiangcheng Town, north of the historic Suzhou city center.

Griffith University Learning Commons, Gold Coast

Griffith University Learning Commons

Design: ThomsonAdsett architects: vibrant new teaching and learning spaces to interest and inspire. The building form is crisp, dynamic, colourful and futuristic. Welcoming undercroft spaces form valuable covered learning settings.

The Wool Resource Centre Hong Kong

The Wool Resource Centre

Architects: HASSELL. The Wool Resource Centre includes a library, a showroom and an events space for visitors to develop and enhance their education on wool. There are six separate zones including open-plan workspaces, a meeting room and an auditorium.

Beyazit Public Library in Istanbul Building

Beyazit Public Library

Tabanlıoğlu Architects, known for producing internationally relevant, contemporary architecture across the world has embarked on the restoration works of one of Istanbul’s most prominent libraries; Beyazıt Public Library with its rare books and manuscript collection.

Library and Exhibition Centre Whakatane

Library and Exhibition Centre

Design: Irving Smith Architects. Following recent development of new commercial outlets away from Whakatane’s town centre, Whakatane Library & Exhibition Centre relocates public facilities back into the centre to revitalize an area of big box retail and carparking left devoid of urban life.

State Library of Victoria Vision 2020 Renewal

State Library of Victoria Vision 2020 Redevelopment

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Architectus selected from shortlist of four architectural design teams to design the $83.1 million State Library of Victoria Vision 2020 redevelopment in Melbourne, Australia.

British Library London Building, Euston Road

British Library Building

The British Library has been listed at Grade I by the Heritage Minister, Tracey Crouch, on the advice of Historic England. Additionally, seven later 20th century libraries have been listed at Grade II.

Sort Diamant Copenhagen: Royal Library

Sort Diamant Copenhagen exterior

Design: Schmidt, Hammer and Lassen, Architects. Det Kongelige Bibliotek – The Royal Library was ahead of its time and the first in Denmark to introduce ground-breaking values to a previously dusty institution.

Library Building in Varna, Bulgaria

Library Building in Varna

Design: THEEAE LTD (The Evolved Architectural Eclectic Limited), architects

The design is for a central library combining 6 different buildings throughout the city. Its purposeful development will bring extensive services to visitors in the center of Varna.

New Library for Holborn, Theobald’s Road Facility

New Library for Holborn

Design: Coffey Architects. U+I, one the country’s most innovative regeneration developers, has been selected as Camden Council’s partner to redevelop Holborn Library and Cockpit Yard, creating a new destination for Holborn.

Medgar Evers College Library Brooklyn, NY

Medgar Evers College Library

Design: ikon.5 architects. Set within the existing Bedford building of The City University of New York, the Medgar Evers College Library transforms an existing 45,000 sqft traditional library into a modern information commons.

Drill Core Reference Library in Adelaide

Drill Core Reference Library

Design: Thomson Rossi Architects: this building will hold 7.5 million metres of drill core samples collected over 130 years of exploration from across South Australia. It can display up to 2km of cores on a series of automated conveyor belts in the main viewing area.