Surry Hills Library, Sydney Building: FJMT
This project is prominently located in the heart of Surry Hills, an inner-city suburb of Sydney whose community is characterised by a diversity of age, income and cultural backgrounds.
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Birmingham Library Competition: Design Contest
Birmingham Library Competition shortlist architects – new building in the West Midlands architecture: England architectural contest news
Crawley Library, West Sussex Building, England
Crawley Library, West Sussex Building, Project, Photo, Design, Property Crawley Library Building, England Development in southeast England, UK – design by Penoyre & Prasad Architects 28 May 2010 Crawley Library West Sussex, England 2010 Design: Penoyre & Prasad, architects Client’s Brief photograph © Tim Soar Crawley Library creates a new major civic building and destination … Read more
New Bodleian Library – Oxford University Building
Oxford University’s Bodleian Libraries today announced that they had secured Planning Permission approval and Listed Building Consent from Oxford City Council for the £78 million restoration and renovation of the New Bodleian Library
Longford Community School London Library
This school appears to have since been renamed Rivers Academy West London, which became part of the Aspirations Academies Trust in August 2013.
Utrecht University Library Building
The UBU, Utrecht University Library building design by Wiel Arets Architects is more than a place where people can consult books, but also a place to work in a concentrated fashion.
Kew Gardens Hills Library, New York Building
Kew Gardens Hills Library, New York Building, Project, Pictures, Architect, Design, Image Kew Gardens Hills Library, New York City NY Building Expansion & Renewal – design by WORK Architecture Company Oct 19, 2017 Kew Gardens Hills Library Building in Queens Apr 20, 2010 Kew Gardens Hills Building Design: WORK Architecture Company Address: 71-34 Main Street, … Read more
Santa Catarina Public Library, Florianopolis Building
Santa Catarina Public Library, Brazil, 2nd Prize design by a young group of architects from São Paulo, Brazilian architecture, competition, South America
John Rylands Library Manchester Building
This is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester city centre. The library, which opened to the public in 1900, was founded by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband, John Rylands.
Central Library Halifax: Nova Scotia building
In collaboration with the Canadian architectural practice Fowler Bauld & Mitchell, schmidt hammer lassen architects has won the competition to design a 45 million Canadian dollars Central Library in the Canadian port city of Halifax, Nova Scotia
Almere Library, Meyer & Van Schooten Building
De nieuwe bibliotheek (the new library) is the public library of Almere. Its four branches (in Almere Stad, Almere Haven, Almere Buiten and Almere Poort) serve approximately 195.000 residents, and 32% of Almere’s population have a membership.
Fribourg Library, Switzerland Building
Atelier Kempe Thill Architects and Planners win 3rd prize in open international competition for refurbishment and extension of University and Cantonal Library Fribourg, Suisse. 65 architects firms had participated in contest
Filmoteca de Catalunya: Barcelona Film Library
Filters are juxtaposed on the wall. This cinematographic metaphor is not just conceptual; it is above all physical, sensible. In the old town, with very close relations between buildings, interaction must be mediated, filtered.
Kilmallock Library, Irish Civic Building: ABK
The 1630m2 project for the town of Kilmallock proposes to reinvigorate the social and cultural life of the town, concentrating a series of key social functions to generate a new Civic Precinct – a District Court for the Department of Justice, a Local Area Office for the Local Authority, and a Branch Library together with public parking (40 spaces) for the village.
Hackney Library, London Building, Clapton
Hackney Library, London Building, Clapton, Photo, News, English Design, Property Clapton Library, east London Historic Hackney Building, Northwold Road, UK – design by Shepheard Epstein Hunter, Architects 24 Feb 2010 Clapton Library Hackney Design: Shepheard Epstein Hunter HACKNEY LIBRARY BY SHEPHEARD EPSTEIN HUNTER OPENS Shepheard Epstein Hunter architect’s £3 million transformation of Clapton Library for … Read more
Port Pirie Library Building, Adelaide Architecture
Port Pirie’s new state-of-the-art $4m community library, designed by Kirkbride Boyce Architects with engineers Meinhardt, has completed and officially opened. The 1,200sqm building was built by main contractor Tagara
Seattle Public Library Architecture: OMA
The library represents, maybe with the prison, the last of the uncontested moral universes. The moral goodness of the library is intimately connected to the conceptual values of the book: the library is its fortress; librarians are its guardians.