Spaces for learning

Changing demands and styles of learning, and different approaches to information in the digital age, are opening up the design of libraries as learning spaces.

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Lancaster University Library. Photo: Sheppard Robson

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 Feb 2021
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 Sept 2020
Design for learning
World Architecture News profiles entries for the World Interiors Awards Learning category, which reflect the importance of design for these multi-use spaces.
08 Jul 2019
The Luxembourg Learning Centre
The Luxembourg Learning Centre
The Luxembourg Learning Centre is designed for everyone who wants to search and process scientific information in an outstanding & comfortable environment.
25 Oct 2018
How a corridor became a learning street
Great Ouse Primary Academy, Bedfordshire, features a centrally located Learning Resource Centre and an interactive learning street extending from it.
30 Jul 2018
Co-creating sixth form study space
Roundhay School Secondary Campus, Leeds has the largest sixth form in the city with over 500 students. Demco Interiors has designed its modern study space.
10 May 2018
Lancaster University Library remodelled
The remodelling of the university's main library, with 14,500 sq.m. of interior spaces, is complete, creating a learning facility fit for the 21st Century.
17 Feb 2016
Designing academic space that matters
KSS Architects have been doing some thinking about academic space on campus and have shared a series of principles and diagrams they developed as a result.
07 Nov 2017
Training rooms in libraries
This new article on the IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment Section blog addresses the challenge of designing the perfect training room in the library.
16 Feb 2017
Libraries without walls
Hamilton Wilson, Education Specialist, Wilson Architects shares his insights into trends in education architecture and how to design a 21st century library
29 Jun 2015
School libraries as hubs of learning
The Guardian Teacher Network has published a feature on the design of school library spaces in the digital information age, where books and technology meet
15 Jan 2015