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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.
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.
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects win international design competition for Sino-US cooperation Wenzhou-Kean University Student Centre & Library, China
Architects AHR has completed the new 2,438 sq m Arcadia Library and Leisure Centre in the heart of Levenshulme, Manchester.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Design: OMA, Architects. The Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale (BMVR) is located at the tip of the peninsula, a focal point of the new development in Caen, states OMA
Design: Walter Leone Arquitecto. The aim of the project is to build an artistic educational ensemble integrated to the local community through different elements and designs. To do so, an additional arrangement is suggested.
In Fall 2018, North Philadelphia will be the home of Snøhetta’s newest library. The Temple University Library will provide a new social and academic heart for the campus of 37,800 students.