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 ...

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 ...

In a December public meeting, library officials in a Portland, Oregon suburb revealed renderings for a new library designed by Adjaye Associates and Holst Architecture. In addition to the stacks, the ...

A new $18.8 million public library by HASTINGS Architecture opened its doors recently in Nashville, Tennessee. The June 24 opening was celebrated with musical performances, a puppet show, and speeches ...

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 ...

Towering over a low-income area of Chicago, and wrapped in a speech that’s hard to decipher, this controversial monolith feels like a menacing sci-fi HQ. Is it a monument – or a mausoleum?

Reading Room: New and Reimagined Libraries of the American West, by Lara Swimmer (photography) and Laura Raskin (words). Forward by Marcellus Turner. Artifice Press, 208 pages, $34.95, click to ...

Back in 2017, Chiangmai Life Architects skilfully used bamboo to create a breezy sports hall at the Panyaden International School in Thailand. The firm has now returned to the same school to add an ...

Norman Pfeiffer, an architect with a more than half-century-long devotion to projects in the L.A. public realm, died Aug. 23 at his home in Pacific Palisades. He was 82. “Norman is perhaps the ...