- The Mohammed Bin Rashid Library
- Libraries in the Middle East have developed remarkably in terms of construction, engineering and design.
Libraries
Inspiring library design projects from around the world, and video tours of selected libraries
- Dunfermline Library
- This library holds a special place in library history as it is the first of 2,509 Carnegie libraries Andrew Carnegie endowed throughout the world!
- LocHal, the library in a loco shed
- The LocHal is a new, world-class urban living room for Tilburg in a former locomotive shed of the Dutch National Railways.
- Grantown Library, Highland
- Grantown Library is situated in Grantown-on-Spey, a small, popular holiday town in the Highlands, with a population of around two and a half thousand
- Better by design
- Online profiles of individual library design projects selected by Designing Libraries, with examples of design innovation from libraries around the world.
- Calgary's new Central Library
- Calgary Public Library has opened its doors to the highly anticipated new Central Library, representing a momentous occasion for the city of Calgary.
- Oodi: Helsinki Central Library
- Helsinki Central Library Oodi serves visitors from the early hours till late in the evening seven days a week.
- Waterside Campus, Northampton
- The design of the campus has been informed by the rethinking of the University's organisational structures.
- The new libraries of Europe
- A collection of case studies published by the LIBER Architecture Group following the Group's biannual international seminars.
- Hub Kerkrade
- How can a library, a theatre and other cultural partners exist together successfully under one roof? First, by breaking down partition walls...
- The Hive at five
- The Hive in Worcester is a pioneering partnership between a university and a local authority with a shared belief in learning and inclusion.
- De Krook Library, Ghent
- De Krook Library is a new cultural centre in the city of Ghent, capturing a spirit of timeless modernity and connection.
- Biblo Tøyen: a library just for kids
- The library, in a deprived area of Oslo, Norway, is rewriting the rules for creating library and social meeting places - with the help of kids themselves.
- The Word, South Shields
- The design brief for the project asked: What should a library for the 21st century look like, and what should it offer to the public?
- University of Roehampton
- The new university library is the centrepiece of an ambitious campus masterplan, characterised by a generous park and garden landscape.
- The National Library of Latvia
- The National Library of Latvia is all about people with the user experience, openness, service quality and staff competence as its main priorities.
- University of Bedfordshire
- The construction of a new library for the University of Bedfordshire is a vital step in the on-going regeneration of the town centre campus in Luton.
- Australia's winning libraries
- Profiles of the 2017 award-winning libraries in five categories: public, academic, school, special library - and ALIA members' choice, the Geelong Library.
- Idea Store, Watney Market
- Watney Market Idea Store is a building designed to deliver a vibrant mixture of library, information, learning and community services.
- James B. Hunt Jr. Library
- Snøhetta worked closely with NCSU Libraries to set a new benchmark for technologically-sophisticated collaborative learning spaces.