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Steven Holl punctures concrete New York library with “sculpted cuts”

September 27, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Queens Library at Hunter's Point by Steven Holl Architects

Steven Holl Architects has completed a concrete public library in New York’s Long Island City featuring large irregular windows that offer views of the waterfront and Manhattan. Hunters Point Library is a six-storey building by local firm Steven Holl Architects in Hunter’s Point, Queens. It is on a waterfront site along the East River, with expansive

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Snøhetta designs Temple University’s Charles Library with “unusual geometry”

September 24, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Charles Library Temple University by Snohetta

Curved wooden entrances are carved into this university library that Snøhetta has completed for Temple University in Philadelphia. The four-storey Charles Library in North Philadelphia is sited in the heart of the university’s campus, with the business school to the south and the science and engineering buildings east. Rectangular in plan, the library building measures

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White Red Architects completes members-only study room in The British Library

September 13, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
British Library members study room by White Red Architects

White Red Architects has completed a study room for the members-only area of central London’s The British Library, with interiors informed by the building’s aesthetic. The new room is located up on The British Library’s second floor and will allow paid membership-holders to have their own quiet study area, away from the large-scale reading rooms

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X+Living creates the illusion of a myriad of staircases at Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore

August 4, 2019 Semi Han 0
Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore by X+Living

Mirrored ceilings and zigzag staircases help form the perplexing interiors of this bookstore in south-west China, which has been designed by architecture studio X+Living. Tucked away from street view, the Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore by Shanghai-based X+Living occupies the third and fourth floors of Chongqing’s Zodi Plaza retail development. As well as providing space for locals

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Emma Olbers Design adds new furnishings to The Old Library in Stockholm

August 2, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
The Old Library at the National Museum Stockholm by Emma Olbers Design

Woven hemp chairs and pine reading tables are among the pieces that Emma Olbers Design has added in its renovation of the library in Stockholm’s Nationalmuseum. Longlisted in the civic and cultural interior category of this year’s Dezeen Awards, the Old Library has been overhauled by Emma Olbers Design to include a host of furnishings

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Curving stone walls surround the Hefei River Central Smart Garden Library in China

July 13, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese architecture studio Geedesign has completed a library in Hefei, China, with arcing stone-clad walls, planted courtyards and roof terraces. Hefei River Central Smart Garden Library is located between a greenbelt area and the Fei River river and a busy financial district at the edge of city. The library provides kindergarten spaces for children as well

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MSR Design and JRA Architects tucks Kentucky library in a grove of trees

June 5, 2019 Jenna McKnight 0
Louisville Free Public Library by MSR Design and JRA Architects

American studios MSR Design and JRA Architect have completed a public library in Louisville featuring a sculptural, medal-clad exterior that is partly concealed by tall, leafy trees. The South Central Regional Library is part of the Louisville Free Public Library system – the largest public library system in Kentucky. The project was designed by MSR

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Jean Nouvel completes “earth-work” library at University of Cyprus

May 28, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Stelios Ioannou Learning Resource Centre at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia by Atelier Jean Nouvel

Atelier Jean Nouvel’s recently completed Stelios Ioannou Learning Resource Center, at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, has been revealed in photographs by Yiorgis Yerolymbos. Named after Cypriot industrialist Stelios Ioannou, the library in the capital of Cyprus has been designed to look like an artificial hill. “It has been considered as an ‘earth-work’, a gentle echo

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Eight striking libraries that are bound to impress

May 4, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Dezeen best libraries roundup: Tianjin Binhai Public Library by MVRDV

Bibliophiles can take pleasure in looking through Dezeen’s pick of the best libraries, including one in the Netherlands that occupies an old locomotive shed, and another in China that resembles an eye. See below for the full selection: Tianjin Binhai Public Library, China, by MVRDV MVRDV constructed the interiors of this public library in Tianjin

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Colliding gabled structures form Hannae Forest of Wisdom community centre

April 28, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Hannae Forest of Wisdom by Unsangdong Architects Coorperation

Unsangdong Architects has designed the Hannae Forest of Wisdom community centre in Seoul with a row of intersecting gabled forms enclosed by glass end walls. Seoul studio Unsangdong Architects developed the centre in the Hannae neighbourhood as a cultural space for the community that repurposes an abandoned plot near the entrance to a public park. To find a way to

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