Helsinki Library Competition, Finland Building

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.

Helsinki Library Competition: Design Contest

A modern library, as a elementary and great emblem of the Finnish essence, culture and know-how, and result of the most accomplished wooden construction technology.

Lons le Saunier Médiathèque & Cinémas building

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

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

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.

Almere Floriade 2022: Expo Plant Library Design

At the same time the site will be with a vast program such as a university, hotel, marina, offices and homes more urban than any other Floriade has ever been before, it is an exemplary green city.

Aarhus Library: Urban Mediaspace

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.

Biblioteca Alcalá, Spain – Alcala University Building

dosmasunoarquitectos thought that the project for the new Central Library of Alcalá de Henares University should not be strictly limited to a refurbishment task, in which a new program and furniture are to supersede the original ones.

Keynsham Town Centre: Regeneration, Library

The application contains proposals for 20,000 sqft of new retail and restaurant space, a new civic building with One Stop Shop and library, community meeting and performance space, Council office space, plus new streets and spaces.

MedaTeca, Italian Library Building: Meda

MedaTeca, the new library of Meda’s township design by Alterstudio Partners, a modern cultural hub of more than 1.900 sq. m. entirely devoted to culture, information and spare time, connected with others 30 libraries of BrianzaBiblioteche’s System