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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’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
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.
The “worlds” are coiled up in a spiral shape around a central circulation shaped as a propeller, which gives access to the different floors.
Located in the heart of Amiens University, the new library and auditorium constitute a central place for exchanges and meeting around technologies as well as the catalyst of an intense campus social life
Sant Antoni’s Buildings, Barcelona, Spain – design by RCR Aranda Pigem Vilalta Arquitectes – Library, Senior Citizens’ Centre & City Block Core Zone: Sant Antoni’s Buildings Barcelona
Datong Library aims to resolve the tension between the two major roles of a central library: as a place of community promenade and gathering and as an archive of knowledge and quite place of study.
Groundbreaking for the Astana National Library which sits 500 meters from the Presidential Palace has already occurred and pilings and foundations are being poured in the coming months. If all goes along to schedule then the library will be completed at the start of 2012.
The chosen project was submitted by the team composed of Cardinal Hardy/Labonté Marcil/Éric Pelletier Architectes en consortium/SDK et associés inc./Leroux Beaudoin Hurens et associés inc.
The new library of the Genoa Chamber of Trade is located inside of palazzo Tobia Pallavicino, adding up to the system of cultural institutions aligned along strada nuova.
The new Library, opened to students earlier in the spring, extends and complements the east wing of the 1959 Denys Lasdun College masterplan to create an ideal place for study that reflects the peaceful landscape, respecting and enhancing the adjacent architecture.
The National Library of Staatsbibliothek Berlin, designed by architect Hans Scharoun and Edgar Wisniewski, is probably the most famous modern library, next to the Phillips Exeter Academy Library, Louis Kahn.
Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Berlin building design by architect Max Dudler Architect completed in October 2009 – German architecture
A new Library, Student Centre and Accommodation have been inserted into particularly sensitive and complex surroundings at this Cambridge College. Corpus Christi College, is located centrally and occupies one city block; the project completes the story of the block by transforming a former bank hall into a library.
Cambridge Law Library, Sidgwick Campus building design by Foster + Partners – England architecture by Norman Foster architect, UK
REX and Principal in Charge Joshua Prince-Ramus have been named the winner of the BibLLLiotheek competition to build a “Library of the Future” for the city of Kortrijk, Belgium
California/Tuebingen, January 2010. The new library of the Channel Islands California State University offers its students optimal working conditions in natural, glare-free light.