- 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.
The Word, South Shields
- A collective living room
- Thionville library and media centre in northeastern France has the ambition to become the new model for media libraries as a 'third place' for the public.
- New Sydney library opens
- The Exchange at Darling Square, designed by BVN, is now open. The new library and community hub had its official launch on Saturday 9 November.
- Hubland Library – a future that looks to the past
- The newly opened Hubland Library in Würzburg - based at a former US military base - is a bespoke community hub designed to meet the needs of local citizens.
- The library as a public space
- An underground library in Sydney's Green Square public plaza has opened, described as a 'space-making not space-taking' design project.
- Grünerløkka Library: a toolkit for localism
- In Grünerløkka, Oslo’s trendiest district, lies Norway’s oldest library building. A recent renovation has turned this building into a neighbourhood hotspot.
- A new cultural residence
- Kulturhus Haaksbergen, The Netherlands, has officially opened its doors with a lively combination of a theatre, library, exhibition space and a reading café.
- Modernising library spaces
- Some recent news posts illustrate how library services are meeting budget challenges to focus on libraries’ wider community function as ‘universal spaces’.
- The extraordinary Stovner library: the shape of things to come
- In January of 2018 the inhabitants of Oslo's Stovner district received a new social space in the form of a new library, but it’s no ordinary library…
- A phenomenal first year for The Word
- Award winning South Tyneside cultural venue The Word, National Centre for the Written Word, is celebrating a phenomenal first year.
- Transforming the public library
- In a blog post from KI, a US-based global furniture company, Randy Hoople identifies five design strategies for transforming the public library.
- New library and community park
- In the City of Brampton, west of Toronto, the Springdale Library and Komagata Maru Park provides the suburban community with a new public library and park.