Library building designs

Library building designs and architects

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Sendai Mediatheque, Japan Library Building

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Sendai Mediatheque, Japan library building by Toyo Ito

This library building in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, was designed by Toyo Ito in 1995 and completed in 2001. After a public consultation, an architectural competition was held for the design of the Mediatheque.

Vilnius University Library: Lithuania Building

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Vilnius University Library Lithuania building

The library is on the outskirts of Vilnius. A relatively quiet and leafy location of the existing university campus is about to change significantly. In upcoming years, a new agglomeration of education facilities will emerge here.

Ballyroan Library Dublin, Rathfarnham Building

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Ballyroan Library Dublin, Rathfarnham Building

The library was built in the 1980’s and served the community well over the past decades. However the library became outdated, in need of upgrading and became too small to deal with the collection of resources available to the community for reference or borrowing.

New Cultural Centre and Library in Karlshamn

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New Cultural Centre and Library in Karlshamn, Sweden

The New Cultural Centre and Library in Karlshamn, Sweden, is designed to gather the city’s cultural functions under one roof. schmidt hammer lassen architects has just won an international competition to design this 5,000 sqm cultural centre building.

Central Library Helsinki Building Design Contest

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BIBLIO-Centrum – from the Greek word for book and the Latin word for center – will be Helsinki’s new “book center” or “book central”, a focal point for the most prominent facilities of the city: Parliament, the Helsinki Music Centre, the Finland Opera House, the Kiasma Museum, Sanoma House, and the central railway station.

Pinewood Library: Helsinki Competition Entry

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The competition entry places a contemporary, down-to-earth public building at the heart of the metropolis, with a strong reference to the Finnish building tradition. The design shows a building entirely made of Finnish pinewood.

Helsinki Library Competition, Finland Building

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A place for everyone: open and accessible, usable and public. A public square animated by exhibitions, events and music. A space surrounded by some of the most important buildings of the city. It’s the cultural centre, heart and mind of the community.

Lons le Saunier Médiathèque & Cinémas building

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Next to the mediathèque, three existing buildings – the church, the Hotel de Balay and the wall of the prison – formed an impressive and severe urban setting made up of simple lines, great mineral surfaces and imposing masses.

Shared Dreams Helsinki Central Library Building

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Shared Dreams is a proposal for the new Helsinki Library, sited at a strategic point within the city, the cultural cluster in the Töölönlahti area, with the Helsinki Music Centre, the Aalto congress centre, and the Kiasma contemporary art museum.

Ballyroan Parish Centre, Dublin Library

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Ballyroan Parish Centre building Dublin

South Dublin County Council undertook to refurbish and extend the library in Ballyroan in 2006. Part of the brief involved refurbishing the community centre and provision of additional pastoral facilities; however it became evident early on that a separate building was required for this element.

Aarhus Library: Urban Mediaspace

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Aarhus Library Urban Mediaspace building design

schmidt hammer lassen architects and the City of Aarhus have been selected to receive a Best Collaboration Award 2012 for their extensive cooperation in creating the largest public library in Scandinavia: Urban Mediaspace.