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 ...

The historic Carnegie library building that houses Jacksonville Public Library has landed on a list of the nation’s 133 most ...

Welcome to the 2021 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries that address user needs in unique, interesting, and effective ways. That this year’s ...

Nooks, cubbies, a second-floor children’s slide, wall-to-wall art, modern furniture and a café. This is not your average public library, but those items are expected to be part of the future ...

When confronted with the renovation of a dull, one-story, brick- and glass-block-clad library with a 100-foot-deep floor plate, there are some obvious moves an architect can make. Redesigning the ...

Brooklyn Public Library unveiled a series of interior renovations to the Central Library at Grand Army Plaza Thursday, just days ahead of the book lender’s partial reopening for in-person browsing on ...

Text description provided by the architects. Shanghai Conservatory of Music Experimental School Hebi Branch is a newly-built nine-year public school. The library, centered on the campus’ main axis, ...

After years of delay, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to designate as interior landmarks two magnificent, Beaux-Arts style rooms in the New York Public Library ...

Check out these pictures from McAllen, Texas, where--instead of letting it sit idle--they’ve used the massive space of an abandoned superstore as a beautiful home for books.

Rendering of the Walter Gladwin Recreation Center in the Bronx envisions 40,000 square foot indoor and outdoor recreation and community center (Courtesy NYC Public Design Commission) Since 1983, the ...

Contemporary cityscapes vary greatly from their early precedents, hosting urban life in sprawling interior spaces like mega-hotels, shopping malls, and transportation hubs. Soaring atriums and ...