Welcome to the 2023 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries that address patron needs in exciting and effective ways. This year’s selections ...

Welcome to the 2021 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries that address user needs in unique, interesting, and effective ways. That this year’s ...

One would be hard-pressed to find a house without books. Besides providing the joys of reading, books are accessories that can personalize a room, dust a neutral space with color, and bring warmth and ...

Cobe’s winning design for the new library of the University of Gothenburg proposes a light, clean volume, whose slightly curved facades are a nod to the pages of an open book. The Danish architecture ...

For more than a century, New Canaan’s public library has been a centerpiece of the bucolic—and affluent—western Connecticut town. Originally built in 1913, the library building was bordered by ...

Unlike nearly every public building its size in the nation’s capital, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library has an unambiguously local remit. With the recent renovation of its 1972 Mies van der ...

Many academic planners assumed that the coming of the Internet would lead to the decline of the library as we know it. To the contrary, many academic libraries have experienced significantly increased ...

The sparkling Calgary library recently celebrated its first anniversary as one of the most architecturally stunning libraries in the world. In fall 2019, Hunters Point Community Library opened in ...

Text description provided by the architects. DUTS design has recently completed the new“Chengdu Jinniu District Library”, after four years of construction. The project is located in the northern part ...

“I need one of these,” I say each time I encounter a so-called Little Free Library while walking my favorite route in West Seattle. I see at least six of these roof-topped, post-mounted structures ...