Stockholm Library Entry, Asplund Competition
How does one address a site entangled in urbanity, nature while facing a cultural icon? Until now the observatory hill had only one façade towards the city.
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Hollola Library, Finland – Finnish Library Building
Hollola Library, Finnish Architecture, Architect, Photos, Project, Design, Image Hollola Building: Finnish Library Pääkirjasto, Hollolan kunnankirjasto: Library Development, Finland – design by Arkkitehdit NRT 15 Apr 2008 Hollola Library Design : Arkkitehdit NRT Address: Nuottikuja 2, 15870 Hollola, Finland Hollola Library Building The library building is situated in the centre of Hollola and encloses the … Read more
Zonnebeke Library, Belgium: Flanders’ Fields
Belgian architect Wim Supply realized an integration project in Zonnebeke, a village in Flanders’ Fields, the battlefields of the Great War. In the Chateau Park, where you find the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, he built a cortensteel building to house the youth library of Zonnebeke.
Peckham Library Building by Will Alsop
Bold, colourful building with learning pods inside. Primary external material is pre-patinated copper. The building sits up over a square using angled columns
Bentley Library Walsall Community Building
The first phase of the competition attracted 72 Expressions of Interest from architectural practices in the UK, Europe, Sri Lanka and the United States of America
Queen’s College Oxford Library Building
New Library at Queen’s College Oxford: the new building will be built underground and sits underneath the College’s Provost’s Garden with links to the old Library.
Shenzhen University Building, Town Library: RMJM
RMJM’s design for the University Town Library connects resources from four different university campuses under one roof.
Thurles Building, Source Arts Centre & Library
This building’s geometries arise out of its very particular location – crouched like a cat at the medieval gate of Thurles and stretched around a bend in the river Suir. A singular folded roof encloses very different volumes, rising and falling like a small mountain range from a strong base – the boardwalk extended over the river.
Stockholm Library designs, Asplund contest
Asplund Architecture Competition in Stockholm, Sweden: six designs shortlisted Feb 2007, over 1,100 entries, images released Nov 2007.
Kazan Building, Tatarstan Architecture
Erick van Egeraat builds National Library and National Bank of the Republic of Tatarstan – A New City Centre for Kazan, the third Capital of Russia
Halmstad Library, Sweden: schmidt hammer lassen
Halmstad Library building design by schmidt hammer lassen architects is set within a parkland setting overlooking the River Nissan and the town’s historic centre.