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Hawkins/Brown and Schmidt Hammer Lassen design university library as “new landmark for Bristol”

March 23, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Bristol University library by Hawkins/Brown and Schmidt Hammer Lassen

Architecture studios Hawkins/Brown and Schmidt Hammer Lassen have won planning approval for a blocky library building for the University of Bristol. Set to be built on the university’s central Bristol campus, the 14,355-square-metre building will be known as New University Library. The blocky library was designed to step up from the neighbouring residential buildings to

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Kengo Kuma designs curved library dedicated to Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen

March 22, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

A curved wooden library lined with glazed walls

Kengo Kuma and Associates has collaborated with Mad Arkitekter on the design of a library that will curve around existing trees in a small urban park in Skien, Norway. Named Ibsen Library, the building will become a cultural hub to exhibit the literature of Henrik Ibsen – a 19th-century playwright who was born in the Norwegian

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Kengo Kuma designs curved library dedicated to Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen

March 22, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

Kengo Kuma and Associates has collaborated with Mad Arkitekter on the design of a library that will curve around existing trees in a small urban park in Skien, Norway. Named Ibsen Library, the building will become a cultural hub to exhibit the literature of Henrik Ibsen – a 19th-century playwright who was born in the Norwegian

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Mecanoo designs Macau Central Library with light-filtering facade informed by books

March 11, 2021 James Parkes 0

Glass wall sits behind the facade to allow light to filter in

Mecanoo has unveiled its design for Macau’s new central library, which will have a gridded, light-filtering facade that opens up like a book to a public square. The Macau Central Library will be built on the Tap Seac square in the historic centre of Macau, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its gridded facade was informed

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Foster + Partners crowns Sharjah library with giant cantilevered roof

March 11, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

The giant overhanging roof of a library in Sharjah

A slender roof cantilevers from all sides of The House of Wisdom, a tech-filled library that Foster + Partners has designed in Sharjah, UAE for the “digital future”. The two-storey building is located 10 kilometres from the city centre in a new cultural district and counts a “book espresso machine” that can print and bind

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Woods Bagot tops school library with “tree-like” timber ceiling

February 27, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Woods Bagot has completed a library building at a girls’ boarding school in Wiltshire, England, that features a faceted wooden ceiling designed to evoke spreading tree branches. Woods Bagot’s London studio designed the library for a plot at the heart of the St Mary’s Calne School campus, where it looks out onto an orchard and

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Mecanoo cloaks palatial Tainan Public Library with decorative aluminium cladding

February 25, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

An aluminium-clad public library in Taiwan

Patterned aluminium panels wrap the stepped exterior of the Tainan Public Library, which Dutch studio Mecanoo and local office MAYU Architects have completed in southern Taiwan. The 37,000-square-metre library, located in the city of Tainan, houses over a million books, alongside collections of music, films and modern art. Its palatial, staggered form was designed by Mecanoo

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Mecanoo cloaks palatial Tainan Public Library with decorative aluminium cladding

February 25, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

Patterned aluminium panels wrap the stepped exterior of the Tainan Public Library, which Dutch studio Mecanoo and local office MAYU Architects have completed in southern Taiwan. The 37,000-square-metre library, located in the city of Tainan, houses over a million books, alongside collections of music, films and modern art. Its palatial, staggered form was designed by Mecanoo

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Wormhole Library by MAD nears completion in China

February 9, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

Chinese architecture studio MAD has released construction photos of its sinuous Wormhole Library after the building topped out on Haikou Bay in Hainan. The photography reveals the coastal library’s white-concrete form for the first time, as well as the undulating CNC cut and 3D-printed formwork that was used to create it. It is slated to

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Open Architecture combines library and theatre in “blue whale” Bibliotheater

January 29, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Pinghe Bibliotheater at the Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe International School China

Chinese studio Open Architecture has designed a theatre and library at the Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe International School China within a blue-coloured building that resembles a whale. Named the Pinghe Bibliotheater, the building was designed by Open Architecture to combine two theatres with a library in one structure that would be a visual marker for the international school

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