(9 November 2015) The Tainan City Government in Taiwan invites all domestic and international teams to take part in the Design Competition for Design and Construction Supervision Service of Tainan Public Library Project, which is going to be an important construction of Tainan’s cultural development. The library is expected to accommodate at least 600,000 collections…
(7 November 2015) Jiading Public Library said yesterday it is closing its doors to organized tour groups, after becoming inundated with visitors more interested in its modern architecture and stylish interior design than its reading and reference materials. “This is a library, not a tourist attraction,” Chen Weijian, director of readers service at the library,…
(29 August 2015) Among the libraries pictured in this photoessay are The State Library of Queensland, Surrey Hills Library and Community Centre, and the Barr Smith Library at the University of Adelaide. To see picturesdotnews.com’s profusion of photographs click here.
Denmark has named the Kista Public Library in Stockholm as the year’s best new public library. The Danish Agency for Culture and the IT firm Systematic have presented the “Systematic – Public Library of the Year Award 2015”. (16 August 2015) Sweden has the best public library when it comes to architecture, interior design, the…
(1 August 2015) It has been given the highest Grade I listed status for its outstanding architectural and historic interest The British Library, home to documents ranging from Magna Carta manuscripts to handwritten Beatles lyrics, has become one of England’s youngest buildings to receive protected status. The library, the largest public building to be built…
(24 July 2015) The Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) have won the design competition for the new construction of the Suzhou Library in China. The new library building on a site next to an extended watercourse is intended to provide the traditional library functions as well as other public functions, such as a…
(8 July 2015) Archohm, a multidisciplinary design studio offering design consulting for architecture, has recently completed the impressive concrete central library for the Shoolini University in Solan, India. It overlooks a beautiful green valley in the Himachal Pradesh region of the country set in the foothills of the Himalayan mountain range. Peacefully positioned in the…
(7 July 2015, Jiaojiehe) Nestled among the shimmering chestnut, walnut and peach trees of a deep valley surrounded by craggy hills, the tiny village of Jiaojiehe suffers from being close to the nation’s capital. The young flee easily to the big city, leaving the elderly behind, lonely and poor. In today’s China, villages like this…
(29 June 2015) Last week, a ground-breaking ceremony was celebrated for the new 30,000 square metre central library in Ningbo, China. schmidt hammer lassen architects won the competition in 2013 to design the 240 million RMB (€ 29 million) Central Library in the eastern port city of Ningbo. The new 30,000m2 library will house the…
(18 May 2015) A Chinese architect has created what must be one of the world’s quietest reading spaces, on a beach outside the city of Qinhuangdao. Designing Libraries has the story.
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