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September 25, 2025
Skip to content The Spencer Building Wright & Wright Architects has completed a pioneering Passivhaus library for Corpus Christi College, Oxford, balancing contemporary environmental standards with contextual sensitivity. Photos Hufton + Crow Designed by Wright & Wright Architects, the Spencer Building for Corpus Christi College, Oxford, is a new special collections library that balances contemporary […]
April 30, 2025
Photography by Brent Boardman Architecture firm fjcstudio has shared photos of Liverpool Civic Place and Yellamundie Library, recently completed in Sydney, Australia. The oval library building is deliberately transparent from all sides, inviting all to come in and be part of the visible activity that can be seen through the round windows that cover its […]
September 26, 2024
Haworth Tompkins’ £14.5 million transformation of the Warburg Institute in London’s Bloomsbury includes the Institute’s first gallery, a 140-seat auditorium, and a state-of-the-art centre for special collections. Photos Hufton+Crow The Warburg Institute in London, one of the world’s leading centres for the study of art and culture, has unveiled a transformational redevelopment of its Bloomsbury […]
June 7, 2024
DRDH Architects has delivered a combined library, cinema and residential building for the London suburb of Sidcup. Madeleine Jacob examines the tensions between commercial viability and civic ambition. Words Madeleine Jacob Photos David Grandorge Sidcup Storyteller is the product of an all-too-rare investment in civic life. Under the heading ‘In Store for Sidcup’, £1.2m from […]
April 16, 2024
April 16, 2024 Ninja Stuudio has shared photos of “White Sheet”, a tiny public library and reading pavilion they completed in Tallinn, Estonia. The design has been inspired by the image of a literary idea, with the pavilion’s roof hovering as a light sheet of paper in mid-air relying only on the glass shelves below. […]
December 18, 2023
Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has recently completed a new library in Kisarazu, Japan, that has been built into the earth. Almost hidden from view, the library is located in an area that was once a valley filled with construction debris. Now rejuvenated, the land was able to be used, with the architects creating a small […]
May 15, 2023
Canadian design firm Level Studio has shared photos of a loft apartment located in a building that was once home to offices but has been converted into residential apartments. One of the eye-catching design elements that caught our eye, is the library and home office. Originally a den with a much smaller opening, the designers […]
October 28, 2022
Studio Weave’s extension to Lea Bridge Library, in Waltham Forest, achieved with the help of the GLA, caters for a growing, diverse community. WordsJason SayerPhotographyJim Stephenson “You used to have to wear thick shoes here,” says Je Ahn, pointing at the ground. “It used to be full of needles and nasty objects – it wasn’t […]
October 28, 2022
Eddie Blake of Studio Weave looks at the Lea Bridge Library, recently extended by Studio Weave, and what it means to genuinely serve a community today. The communities of Leyton are experiencing dramatic change. Along with other areas around the Olympic Park fringe, this Victorian residential suburb and its light industrial edges, is enjoying quiet […]
September 1, 2022
Photography by Jin Weiqi 3andwich Design together with He Wei Studio, has completed the Water Drop Library that’s located in Shuangyue Bay Central Park in Huizhou City, China. Photography by Jin Weiqi The building sits on top of a hill, looking out towards the sea, and has been designed as “a white library under a […]
June 1, 2022
Ian Volner revisits Gunnar Asplund’s eccentric Stockholm library, which showcases the competing impulses of an architect who embraced Premodernism, Modernism and even Postmodernism – decades before the term came into popular use. The exterior reads as a homage to the fantastical monuments of 18th-century hyper-rationalists Louis Boullée and Claude Nicolas Ledoux: a four-square palazzo clad […]
13 November 2026
