Related library design sites and image galleries
Related national and international websites and image galleries featuring library buildings and library design examples.
- Architectural Record: Building Types Study: Libraries
- Architectural Record has long produced in-depth analyses of a particular building type, with photos, drawings, specifications, descriptions, and design solutions.
- Architecture Week Great Buildings: Libraries
- Images, links, commentary on featured library buildings from around the world (if you can get past the popup ads).
- Carnegie libraries
- Wikipedia provides a useful history of Carnegie libraries and links to further information.
- Designing Better Libraries
- Blog ‘exploring the application of design, innovation, and new media to create better libraries and user experiences’.
- The European Library Exhibitions: Buildings
- Architectural images of the national libraries of Europe.
- JISC InfoNet's photostream on flickr
- Thousands of categorised images of institutions and learning spaces.
- LIBER Architecture Group
- Aims to further the exchange of experience between librarians and architects throughout Europe, and attempts to raise the level of awareness of new projects and trends.
- Library Buildings: Architectural Information + Images
- Library pages of e-architect, featuring major architectural developments from around the world.
- Librarybuildings.info
- European database presenting the best of new library buildings, created by NAPLE.
- Open Buildings: Libraries
- A gallery of contemporary library buildings across the world, with profiles of the individual libraries featured.
- Public Library Buildings (Ireland)
- Database and image gallery of library building and design projects in Ireland.
- The 35 Most Amazing Libraries in the World
- Nice enthusiastic image gallery on the website of The Best Colleges.
- Web Urbanist: 14 Marvelous Modern Libraries
- Image gallery.
- Web Urbanist: 15 Dazzling Library Designs
- More images.
- What do Spain's public libraries look like?
- Architecture and Libraries is a website offered by Spain's Ministry of Culture that allows you to take a virtual tour of Spanish public libraries, inside and out.
