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Designing Libraries

The centre for library design and innovation: a resource for planning and design, a database of library building projects and a marketplace for services.

The hospitable library of the future
The hospitable library of the future
BRAINSTORM will light up Oslo
BRAINSTORM will light up Bjørvika in Oslo
Rugby Library & Makerspace
Rugby Library & Makerspace
Grünerløkka Library
Grünerløkka Library: a toolkit for localism
The Luxembourg Learning Centre
Inspiring learning: the Luxembourg Learning Centre
Kalk Library Cologne
Kalk Library Cologne: engaging the community
De Krook Library, Ghent
De Krook Library, Ghent

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New from Designing Libraries

New school library in an apple orchard
The London office of architects Woods Bagot has just completed the new library for St Mary's Calne School, incorporating the adjacent apple orchard.
16/02/2021
Finland's first container library
Pirkko Lindberg, Director of Library Services for the city of Tampere, describes the creation of Nekala Branch Library, Finland's first container library.
10/02/2021
Library, whale or ocean liner?
Pinghe Bibliotheater is a combined library and theatre designed by Open Architecture for an international school in Shanghai.
02/02/2021
Sunderland's Culture House
In October 2020, Sunderland City Council published the Riverside Sunderland Masterplan, which sets out a strategy for the regeneration of a large site in the city centre.
25/01/2021
The living room behind the bookshelves
The two storey glass façade of the public library in Dornbirn, Austria, is covered by a curtain layer containing 8,000 ceramic batons symbolising bookshelves.
28/12/2020
Lüdinghausen: small but beautiful
In the small town of Lüdinghausen, after ten months of renovation and a complete refurbishment, an ultra-modern and attractive library has been created.
09/12/2020

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