Welcome to the 2024 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Like the profession itself, library facilities are in a ...

With communities across the nation facing compounding social, economic, and environmental challenges, architecture plays a significant role in shaping the collective's future. The built environment is ...

Welcome to the 2023 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries that address patron needs in exciting and effective ways. This year’s selections ...

CannonDesign, HDR, Quinn Evans, Perkins&Will, JLG Architects, and McMillan Pazdan Smith top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation's largest public ...

For more than a century, New Canaan’s public library has been a centerpiece of the bucolic—and affluent—western Connecticut town. Originally built in 1913, the library building was bordered by ...

A group of acclaimed architecture teams is competing for the right to build a new public library branch in Boston’s West End, a neighborhood bereft of communal spaces since the urban renewal debacle ...

In East New York, Brooklyn, Remembrance Plaza continues reconciliation with connection to an African American Burial Ground, and soon a new library. (Courtesy MASS Design Group and Marble Fairbanks ...

“Shakespeare has had many different interpretations over 400 years,” says Michael Witmore. “The same can be done with a building.” Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library since 2011, Witmore has ...

Shenzhen Library presents a contemporary architectural design that blends geometric structure, minimalist aesthetics, and functional public space into one modern urban landmark. The layered exterior ...