Liverpool Central Library and Archive Project
The Liverpool Central Library and Archive Project provides an 8,000 sqm library and specialist archive and restores 4,000 sqm of Grade II listed historic buildings on William Brown Street
Library building designs
Library building designs and architects
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The Hive Worcester, Library Building England
The Hive Worcester, library building, western England, UK – design by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios – Worcester Library, The Hive Library
National Library Jerusalem Building, Giv’at Ram
The new Master Plan for the Ben-Gurion Campus 101-0661176, clearly marks a conceptual shift which is intended to gradually transform Rupin Road into the main axis of the Government Compound of Giv’at Ram.
Morgan Library and Museum Access Design
This photograph shows the Renzo Piano façade of the Morgan Library and Museum, the architect’s first New York City project where disability access was a major priority. The Morgan is arguably the most influential art and cultural collection in the United States.
New Maranello Library building, Italy
The building borders with a residential court on the north, with a public green area on the west, with a residential building on the south built in adherence and with other residential buildings on the East and partially in adherence.
New Central Library Berlin Building
Berlin Central and Regional Library, a proposal: strategically sited within the city adjacent to the new Tempelhoff Park this landmark is established to the West access.
Sendai Mediatheque, Japan Library Building
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.
Liverpool Central Library building design
Liverpool Central Library, William Brown St Building, UK – design by Austin-Smith:Lord Architects – £50 million redevelopment of a Grade II* listed building
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.
University of Helsinki City Campus Library by aoa
Helsinki University Main Library, the largest academic library in Finland is located in a historically important city block in the very heart of the city centre.
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
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
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
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.