Mecanoo designs Macau Central Library with light-filtering facade informed by books
Mecanoo has unveiled its design for Macau's new central library, which will have a gridded, light-filtering facade that opens up like a book to a public square. More
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Foster + Partners crowns Sharjah library with giant cantilevered roof
A slender roof cantilevers from all sides of The House of Wisdom, a tech-filled library that Foster + Partners has designed in Sharjah, UAE for the "digital future". More
Woods Bagot tops school library with "tree-like" timber ceiling
Woods Bagot has completed a library building at a girls' boarding school in Wiltshire, England, that features a faceted wooden ceiling designed to evoke spreading tree branches. More
Mecanoo cloaks palatial Tainan Public Library with decorative aluminium cladding
Patterned aluminium panels wrap the stepped exterior of the Tainan Public Library, which Dutch studio Mecanoo and local office MAYU Architects have completed in southern Taiwan. More
Wormhole Library by MAD nears completion in China
Chinese architecture studio MAD has released construction photos of its sinuous Wormhole Library after the building topped out on Haikou Bay in Hainan. More
Open Architecture combines library and theatre in "blue whale" Bibliotheater
Chinese studio Open Architecture has designed a theatre and library at the Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe International School China within a blue-coloured building that resembles a whale. More
Rammed-earth domes will define Adjaye Associates' Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library
Eight domed structures built from rammed earth will distinguish the Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library that architecture studio Adjaye Associates is developing in Johannesburg, South Africa. More
MAD reveals Wormhole Library overlooking the South China Sea
Chinese architecture studio MAD has designed a library in Haikou on the Chinese island of Hainan that is intended "to be a wormhole that transcends time and space". More
Atelier Oslo and Lundhagem unveil Oslo's "huge but intimate" central library
Oslo's long-awaited Deichman Bjørvika central library, which stands alongside the Snøhetta-designed opera house on the city's waterfront, has opened to the public in Norway. More
Snøhetta, Studio Gang and Henning Larsen compete to design Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library
Architecture firms Snøhetta, Studio Gang and Henning Larsen have been shortlisted to design a presidential library for Theodore Roosevelt in Medora, North Dakota. More
Grassy hill forms skylight over RDHA's Springdale Public Library near Toronto
A hill-like green roof with a skylight helps to blend this public library by Toronto architecture firm RDHA into its grassy surrounds. More
Microlibrary Warak Kayu features a hammock-style floor and a swing
Architecture firm Shau has built a library in Semarang, Indonesia, featuring a grand staircase, a net floor and a large communal swing. More
Steimle Architekten transforms traditional German barn into Kressbronn Library
Steimle Architekten has converted a former barn in the village of Kressbronn am Bodensee, Germany, into a library and community centre with glazed openings screened by angled vertical louvres. More
Diamond Schmitt Architects designs Ottawa public library and archive centre with wavy roof
Canadian firm Diamond Schmitt Architects has revealed a new building for Ottawa's public library system, featuring a curvilinear roof and glass walls that offer expansive views of the city. More
Atelier Tao+C lines walls of capsule hotel with bamboo bookshelves
Bamboo bookshelves line the triple-height atrium of a glass-walled capsule hotel and library in Zhejiang Province, China, by Atelier Tao+C. More
Wolfgang Tschapeller adds suspended bookshelves to Cornell University library
Architecture firm Wolfgang Tschapeller has renovated a library at Cornell University and added suspended shelving, which prompted criticisms about the potential for upskirting when it opened in earlier this year. More
Hunters Point Library slapped with lawsuit for inaccessibility issues
Hunters Point Library in New York's Long Island City by Steven Holl Architects has been hit with a class action lawsuit for its "total disregard" of people with mobility disabilities. More
Steven Holl dismisses concerns over new Long Island City library as "wrinkles"
Steven Holl Architects has brushed off criticisms of its Hunters Point Library in Long Island City, which opened in September with a number of areas inaccessible to people with disabilities. More
Snøhetta unveils North Carolina library with scooped front
Two terraces will be carved into the swooping, ceramic-clad facade of this public library that architecture firm Snøhetta has designed for Charlotte, North Carolina. More
John Ronan creates affordable housing in Chicago with colourful balconies and a library
A spectrum of vivid hues were incorporated throughout a mixed-use building in Chicago by John Ronan Architects that contains a public library at ground level and low-cost senior housing up above. More