- 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 Oct 2020
Public libraries now
Libraries are changing - all over the world - with a range of services and creative opportunities for users, reshaping the very idea of the public library.
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.
- 13 Feb 2017
- 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.
- 29 Nov 2019
- Hubland Library
- The newly opened Hubland Library in Wurzburg -is a bespoke community hub designed to meet the needs of local citizens.
- 06 Jun 2019
- 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.
- 03 Jan 2019
- Grünerløkka Library
- In Grünerløkka, Oslo's trendiest district, lies Norway's oldest library building. A recent renovation has turned this building into a neighbourhood hotspot
- 09 Apr 2019
- 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 cafe.
- 16 Sept 2019
- 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'.
- 17 Sept 2018
- The extraordinary Stovner library
- 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!
- 15 Feb 2018
- 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.
- 12 Oct 2017
- 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.
- 30 Oct 2017
- 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.
- 27 Apr 2020