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Phoenix, the sixth largest American city, prides itself on providing exceptionally designed libraries to foster communities with information resources and works of the imagination. The Cesar Chavez Library is one of four new regional libraries to be constructed for the City
The building is a remembrance of the desert slot canyons of northern Arizona and monument valley, capturing the powerful and unique experience between the compressive stone walls and the ultimate release to the sky above.
‘Less is More’ would seem to sum up this tiny yet delightful and ingenious school extension providing a library, music room and store room. The building has a simplicity that comes from a straightforward plan.
Kew Gardens Herbarium, London, Architect, Edward Cullinan Project, English Design Kew Herbarium, London Royal Botanic Gardens Building: Library, Art and Archives – design by Edward Cullinan Architects 19 May 2011 Kew Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives RIBA Award winner, 19 May 2011 The new wing to the 1853 Herbarium provides a modern storage facility for … Read more
Mak Architects, Inc. based in USA teamed up with three local Taiwanese firms, P.S Chen Partners, Yu-I Lu Architects, and Steven CF Chang Architects for the Kaohsiung Library Competition.
The Open-Air-Library, first established in 2005 in an abandoned district centre in East Germany has been started with a public intervention, using beer crates as building material.
Based on the functional organisation the volume is lifted in order to create public space around the library. In conjunction with the promenade along the quays, this results in interaction with the surrounding water and thereby the revival of the Waalse Krook
The ambitious project located in Centenary Square Birmingham will connect the Library of Birmingham with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre to create a major new cultural destination opening in 2013.
Enfield Library, London Building, Project, Photo, News, English Design, Property Enfield Town Library, North London, England, UK Enfield Town Library Building – design by Shepheard Epstein Hunter Architects 21 Jan 2011 Enfield Town Library Shepheard Epstein Hunter win Best Built Project – Enfield Town Library – announced last night at the London Planning Awards Shepheard … Read more
Taiwan Library Competition – entry by Mecanoo, architects – Asian building contest, development design: Taiwan Library architecture competition
Stirling has two other campus libraries. The Highland Health Sciences Library is located in Inverness and holds a wide range of resources in the field of Health Studies.
In the old village of La Turbie, close to the Trophy of August, we were asked to transform an old abandoned oven in a mediatheque.
City Library Helmond. Like most Dutch cities Helmond is busy reinventing itself. The new City Library, which officially opens in October 2010, is the first component of a comprehensive new inner city shopping zone (master plan: Prof. Joan Busquets).
The 12,000m2 building will be the focal point of new development in Caen. Surpassing five submissions by internationally-renowned competitors, the project, led by OMA associate-in-charge Clément Blanchet, will be OMA’s first cultural building in France.