Curno Public Library and Auditorium / Archea Associati
The project, conceived in 1997, provided for the implementation of the new library and auditorium in Curno, a small town in the province of Bergamo.
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P2 Urban Hybrid | Library / LAAC
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The Project P2 combines a city library, a public space with restaurants and residential accommodation within a multi-faceted building complex. As a spatial organisation of urban relationships, it manages both public and private interests. Multiplicity becomes a differentiated, complex unity.
Tūranga Christchurch Central Library / SHL
Early in the design process, the architects collaborated with Matapopore Charitable Trust, an organization whose objective is to ensure the values, aspirations and narratives of the local Ngāi Tūāhuriri people are realised throughout the recovery of Christchurch. Their influence on the design of the building is substantial—from building materials to physical orientation, there is a rich tapestry of ancestry, traditional knowledge, and culture woven throughout Tūranga.
Wuhan Huashan Library / GLA
The library, lying at the northwest corner of Wuhan Huashan Eco-City, where there originally was a wetland with abundant resources, connects to the city’s sports theme park in the east and faces closely to the Baiyang Mountain Scenic Area in the north. The design, featuring five well-proportioned, lightweight and simplified boxes scattered on the wetland, expresses a concealing and humble posture into the current ecological environment and leaves the original ecologic landscape intact as much as possible.
Tate Library at Ethical Culture Fieldston School / Architecture Research Office
The comprehensive renovation of Tate Library at Ethical Culture Fieldston School (ECFS) transformed the signature 1970 building into a learning commons that is the hub for the entire campus. In support of ECFS’s mission of ethical learning, academic excellence, and progressive education, the building’s new open, spacious interior provides greater access to books, information and technology to enable multiple modes of teaching and learning. Maintaining the integrity of the original stone and concrete building, the exterior renovation includes new windows with “bird-friendly” glazing and a new main entrance facing the campus quadrangle.
The Royal Library / SHL
The Royal Library is one of the most significant architectural landmarks on the Copenhagen waterfront. Clad in black granite, the extension to the Royal Library is known as the ‘Black Diamond’ – with its clean-cut lines and glittering polished surfaces, the library is one of Copenhagen’s architectural gems.
80㎡ Reading Village / Yuan Architects
The project is located in Taizhou Experimental Middle School, Jiaojiang County, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province. It is based on the central green space of the campus and has good vegetation. The school hopes that the library will not only be a building, but also a landscape in campus, which has a distinctive external form and provides spatial experience.
Knowledge Agora / WAarchi
National Chiao Tung University Library witnesses the growth of students of National Chiao Tung University. Reading is the reinterpretation and reappearance of what the campus is. Knowledge Agora (space for books and periodicals) of National Chiao Tung University will be a starting point for National Chiao Tung University of Taiwan to reverse education with reading aesthetics.
José Luis Martínez Library / Alejandro Sánchez García
The building, personal library of Jose Luis Martinez, is a conceptual replica of the diplomat’s house and studio. The project reveals itself sequentially on the basis of two halls and a double-height mezzanine floor.
Lilavati Lalbhai Library / RMA Architects
Embedded in the heart of the CEPT University campus designed by B. V. Doshi, the CEPT Library is envisioned as a space for catalyzing connections between students and faculty of the various academic departments. Neutrally oriented at a central location with separate and equal entrances facing all cardinal directions, access to the building – and identification with it – is collective across the campus.