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By opening up the building to promote its special collections to the wider public, Wilkinson Eyre has also addressed the building’s identity and related it more closely to its immediate context by improving its perception and approach.
Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects. The main part of the library will float above two pavilions that will house a 1200 seat performance venue, exhibition and events space and a children’s library, that will all open up towards a series of landscaped courtyards and gardens.
This cultural centre building design by Bennetts Associates Architects provides two theatres, a cinema and a public library in the historic centre of the city. It incorporates the listed shell of a former Odeon cinema and a new brick and translucent glass extension.
Design: Architecture Patrick Mauger
The aim of the new multimedia library building, built at the same time as the Maison du Temps Libre, is to provide the town with a new boost to its cultural life.
Design: DRDH, architects. Two new civic buildings or this town 100km inside the Arctic Circle. The architecture stitches into the existing urban fabric, playing off the link to the town centre and nearby harbour.
Design: Studio Archohm, architects
‘To rebel with a cause’; The big concrete central library of the Shoolini University in Solan overlooks a beautiful green valley. The building physically manifests the philosophy of this biotechnology campus.
Design: schmidt hammer lassen architects: The 1,500 sqm library building provides the Highlands’ community with a distinctive landmark which underlines that this new creative centre for learning is open and accessible
Architect: ZAO / standardarchitecture / Zhang Ke. A small-scale architecture project that enriches bonds amongst communities and revives Hutong life. The courtyard is about 300-400 years old and once housed a temple 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The new Jasper Place Branch Library design reflects the Edmonton Public Library’s aspirations to create an open and memorable presence in the community.