Welcome to the 2024 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Like the profession itself, library facilities are in a ...

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 ...

In a December public meeting, library officials in a Portland, Oregon suburb revealed renderings for a new library designed by Adjaye Associates and Holst Architecture. In addition to the stacks, the ...

Towering over a low-income area of Chicago, and wrapped in a speech that’s hard to decipher, this controversial monolith feels like a menacing sci-fi HQ. Is it a monument – or a mausoleum?

A group of acclaimed architecture teams is competing for the right to build a new public library branch in Boston’s West End, a neighborhood bereft of communal spaces since the urban renewal debacle ...

CannonDesign, HDR, Quinn Evans, Perkins&Will, JLG Architects, and McMillan Pazdan Smith top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation's largest public ...

The most surprising part of visiting the Charles Hayden Memorial Library at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is going inside. From the exterior, the stalwart ...

In East New York, Brooklyn, Remembrance Plaza continues reconciliation with connection to an African American Burial Ground, and soon a new library. (Courtesy MASS Design Group and Marble Fairbanks ...

Volume Zero invites you to re-imagine the idea of Library as a 21st-century self-learning and educational incubation space that not only is a center for knowledge but also encourages its users to ...

A rendering of the planned computer lab in The Studio, an upcoming development at the Champaign Public Library geared for afterschool programs. Product Architecture + Design is the architecture firm ...