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More Than Books

Miller Hull is designing a mass timber public library in central Oregon

“Atomic Age”

In Nashville, Donelson Library by HASTINGS Architecture opens to the public

Where Old Meets New

Perkins&Will’s D.B. Weldon Library revitalization transforms a Brutalist classic by John Andrews in Ontario

A Lifetime of Learning

Pratt School of Architecture’s Reading Room, which holds the William “Bill” Menking Book Collection, is now open

Flatbush Facelift

LEVENBETTS design pleated aluminum facade for East Flatbush Library

Pocket-sized Paris

Philadelphia announces National/Frontier as the development team reimagining two sites along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Queen City

Construction starts on the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library by Snøhetta and Clark Nexsen

Justify My Thug

An impressive catalogic exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library tells Jay-Z’s story

Meeting Neighborhood Needs

Playgrounds, libraries, and parks are recognized in the New York City Public Design Commission’s Annual Awards for Excellence in Design

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Sorkin’s Stacks

The Spitzer School of Architecture preserves the library of Michael Sorkin Studio and Terreform Urban Research in the Sorkin Reading Room

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Biophilic Bibliophiles

Heatherwick Studio unveils design for Lakefront Library in Columbia, Maryland

Intellectual Heritage

Maarten Baas lights up a library in the Netherlands with signage depicting literary phrases and figures

Read Up

Adjaye Associates and Holst Architecture design a new library in the Portland suburbs

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Green with Envy

Snøhetta reveals a tree-inspired design for the new Westchester Square Library in New York’s “greenest” borough

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Wrapped in a Star Blanket

A Toronto library will weave traditional Indigenous customs with advanced technology and sustainable practices

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Legacy Project

CUNY Spitzer School of Architecture opens reading room named after late architect Michael Sorkin

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Fourth Time’s a Charm

Níall McLaughlin Architects wins the 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize for Magdalene College Library in Cambridge

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Finnish Facade

JKMM revamps a 1980s public library in Finland with a copper-clad expansion

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