- 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
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.
Lancaster University Library. Photo: Sheppard Robson
- 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 is designed for everyone who wants to search and process scientific information in an outstanding and 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
- Library design and the learning experience
- SCONUL Focus has published a collection of views on the importance and impact of library spaces in enhancing students' learning experiences.
- 07 Apr 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
- A strategic vision for library and learning spaces
- Heriot-Watt University has developed a strategic vision for the Edinburgh Campus library that will meet the changing demands of its users.
- 16 Feb 2015
- Learning Spaces database released
- Media University Stuttgart, Germany, has released the largest international database on learning space development.
- 12 Feb 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