Southmere Village Library Design by RRA

Southmere Village Library building design by RRA

New civic building design by RRA, Norway – “this hinterland, where Southeast London meets the marshes of Kent, and the River Thames meets the open seas under a vale of mist, has inspired some of the nation’s greatest artworks”.

Kew Gardens Hills Library Building, Queens

Kew Gardens Hills Library Building Queens NYC

Photos of new branch library building in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, by architects WORKac. The library was among the first projects under DDC’s Design + Construction Excellence Program, which has directed selected civic projects to leading architecture firms.

New York Public Library Building

New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

The New York Public Library has unveiled a Master Plan for its iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, one of the nation’s leading research libraries, which for over a century has stood as a symbol of open and free access to information and opportunity.

Winter Park Public Library & Events Center

Winter Park Public Library and Events Center

Winter Park City Commission unanimously approved Adjaye Associates’ concept design for the future Winter Park Public Library and Events Center. The project will consolidate and replace the existing library and civic center buildings.

New Mid-Manhattan Library Building

New Mid-Manhattan Library Building

Design: Mecanoo / Beyer Blinder Belle, architects. Completely renovated, vastly improved Mid-Manhattan Library: The New York Public Library’s largest circulating branch is set for a transformation that will increase seats, expand services, and add public space.

Shanghai East Library in China

Shanghai East Library in China

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects have revealed new visuals of the Shanghai East Library. In 2016, the practice won a three stage international competition to design the new public library that will sit adjacent to Century Park in the east part of the city.

Southmere Village Library Thamesmead

Thamesmead London Bexley aerial photo | www.e-architect.com

Shortlisted architects for Peabody / Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) international design competition for a new library building in Southmere Village, Thamesmead. This new civic building will be at the heart of the first phase of 1,622 new homes to be delivered in Bexley.

Microlibrary Bima in Indonesia, Bandung

Microlibrary Bima

Architects: SHAU. With high illiteracy rate in Indonesia and lack of reading facilities, SHAU -a multi-awarded rising architecture practice- started a mission: to rekindle interest in books by offering a designed place for reading paired with multiple community activities.

Robarts Library University of Toronto building

Robarts Library University of Toronto building

The new building design by Diamond Schmitt Architects brings daylight and views to a five-storey, glass-enclosed addition. The original concept for Robarts Library included three pods surrounding the core of the library.

Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages

Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages Jinghu Campus

Architects: Beijing Institute of Architectural Design

From the idea of materialisation of paradise to the design concept of simplism, the design of the library blends together oriental and western design philosophies to offer the readers a wonderful reading space.

Tainan Public Library in Taiwan Building

Tainan Public Library Building | www.e-architect.com

Design: Mecanoo and MAYU – groundbreaking news: Tainan is a city born from a history of diverse cultures, peoples and traditions. The urban fabric holds memories from the 17th century European maritime trading, the Qing Dynasty Ruling, and the Japanese settlement of the early 1900s.

New York Public Library Stapleton Branch

NY Public Library Stapleton Branch

Design: Andrew Berman Architect. The new library was intended above all to be an inviting, open, and accessible public space for the community. The library had to be on a single level, stitch new building to old, and be handicapped accessible.

Vitrolles Media Library France, Bouches-du-Rhône

Vitrolles Media Library Marseilles Buildings news

Architect: Jean-Pierre Lott. Vitrolles grew too quickly. A victim of the urbanization of the 1960s, it went from the status of little Provençal village with about a thousand inhabitants, to a bedroom community comprised of soulless apartment buildings.