- Designing Libraries Round Table
- Event held at the Library of Birmingham on April 11th 2022
- 14/04/2022
- House of Wisdom
- The new library and culture centre in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- 06/04/2022
- New Range of Children's Furniture
- WF Education has expanded its range with the launch, in March 2022, of new modular children and young people’s library furniture.
- 01/04/2022
- New University of Bristol Library
- The new University of Bristol Library is scheduled to open in 2026.
- 01/04/2022
- Libraries Connected - The Next Five Years
- Libraries Connected, the sector support organisation, aims to complete its new five-year strategic plan (2023 - 2027) by the end of March 2022.
- 22/03/2022
- LIBER Architecture Group seminar April 2022
- The group holds a seminar every two years to promote fruitful discussions between librarians and architects.
- 22/03/2022
- Shaping Plans for Sunderland Culture House
- Community engagement has been key to shaping plans for the new Sunderland Culture House which will be a library - and much more
- 22/03/2022
- IFLA Library of the Year Award
- Applications are invited for the 2022 International Federation of Public Library Associations’ Library of the Year Award, sponsored by Systematic
- 22/03/2022
- Architectural Recycling
- A new library in an old building in Belper, Derbyshire is one of eight projects shortlisted for the RIBA East Midlands Award 2022
- 22/03/2022
- Restoration
- Not all listed buildings are centuries old and Hornsey Library, built in 1965, is one of the younger examples.
- 22/03/2022
- New Libraries in Old Buildings: creative reuse
- New Libraries in Old Buildings: creative reuse - edited by Petra Hauke, Karen Latimer and Robert Neiss
- 22/03/2022
- Better By Design: An Introduction to Planning, Designing and Developing Library Buildings
- Better by Design was first published in December 2008. The author, Ayub Khan, has joined forces with former colleague Stella Thebridge to update the book.
- 16/03/2022
- Meeting spaces in libraries
- Bristol is among several library authorities that have recently installed private meeting pods in libraries.
- 30/08/2021
- Discover a wonderland
- The new children's library for Gütersloh City Library in North Rhine-Westphalia is a wonderland behind the shelves and a step towards a repositioning of the historic library for the 21st century.
- 27/08/2021
- Berlin's library and testimony archive
- The new Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation situated in the middle of Berlin is a visible symbol for the memory and commemoration of displacement, expulsion and forced migration in both the past and present.
- 29/06/2021
- The restoration of Norbury Library
- Part of Croydon Council's Library Transformation Programme, this 1930s locally listed library has been beautifully restored by Bisset Adams.
- 18/06/2021
- New space for University of Birmingham campus
- The University of Birmingham Dubai has appointed Ecospace to help create an easy-to-use library space for students at its new campus, due to open in Autumn 2021.
- 10/06/2021
- A natural library
- Zheshui Natural Library, which is integrated into the natural landscape, has won the annual Design Educates Award for architectural design.
- 05/05/2021
- Designing a new heart for a small city
- Kirkkonummi is a small town near Helsinki built around its medieval stone church. JKMM Architects has transformed the old city library facing the church to create a new civic centre.
- 23/04/2021
- Library design matters: a webinet series from IFLA
- The IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment Section has embarked on a series of webinets to stimulate ideas about new approaches to library design.
- 05/04/2021
- Doncaster's new library opens virtually
- Doncaster's new Danum Gallery, Library and Museum (DGLAM) has opened a virtual tour for visitors. It can be accessed from the link on this page.
- 25/03/2021
- The Nest in Bexley
- Construction of 'The Nest' is currently underway as part of the major redevelopment of the former Tavey Bridge residential area.
- 24/03/2021
- Australian Library Design Award winners 2021
- The winners of the Australian Library Design Awards were announced at the March 2021 Changing Spaces Library Design Conference.
- 22/03/2021
- 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
- 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
- Designed to inspire
- The Lammhults Design Group has this year completed two inspirational library interiors with their usual flair for contemporary library design.
- 08/12/2020
- Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library
- Adjaye Associates has published its designs for the Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library which includes a new learning centre, museum, gallery and events spaces.
- 26/11/2020
- Winning proposal for Ibsen Library
- Kengo Kuma & Associates' design proposal has been selected for the new Ibsen Library in Skien, Norway, Henrik Ibsen's birthplace.
- 03/11/2020
- A bookshop in a paddy field
- Architects TAO-Trace have created a bookshop from an abandoned house with three surviving rammed-earth walls in the village of Xiadi, in the Chinese province of Fujian.
- 02/11/2020
- A library in rural Nepal
- Following a period of voluntary work in the mountain region of Rasuwa in Nepal, a new library for children has now opened.
- 21/10/2020
- The hospitable library of the future
- Huis van Eemnes (The Netherlands) is a new culture house. It is an inspiring third place to meet, create and participate, where both organised and spontaneous activities take place.
- 08/10/2020
- Helping libraries thrive in uncertain times
- It's not business as usual for libraries, and businesses that serve libraries have been quick to move to support library services in these uncertain times.
- 05/10/2020
- Optimising learning space
- Birmingham City University (BCU) makes the most of agile and flexible working with LapSafe's largest installation of their self-service laptop loan lockers.
- 03/09/2020
- The concrete wormhole library
- MAD Architects have released images of the concrete library under construction in the coastal Hainan Province of China.
- 13/08/2020
- Safe working: an architectural perspective
- Ayub Khan, service manager at Warwickshire County Council, introduces this new practical guide produced by architects IF_DO.
- 16/07/2020
- Designing the online experience
- How can a library catalogue online be designed differently? How do you build different ways of accessing the collection both for online and onsite experiences?
- 15/07/2020
- BRAINSTORM will light up Bjørvika in Oslo
- The artwork BRAINSTORM by Lars Ramberg has taken three years to produce. The result is a gigantic piece of conceptual art, comprising over 400 metres of handmade glass tubing in yellow and white.
- 02/07/2020
- Library Buildings in Europe
- LIBER Architecture Group has redesigned and released its database of new libraries in Europe.
- 24/06/2020
- The safe reopening of libraries
- As libraries move towards reopening, where can we turn to for information and guidance on safe opening for both users and staff, when business as usual is not an option?
- 01/06/2020
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- 28/05/2020
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- 31/12/2019
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- 31/12/2018
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- 31/12/2017
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- 31/12/2016
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- 31/12/2015
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- 31/12/2014