A bookmobile designed by RIT students will soon roll into Rochester neighborhoods. Students in RIT’s School of Design spent the fall 2023 semester working with the Rochester Public Library (RPL) and ...

In its first nine months, Austin (Tex.) Public Library’s new Central Library saw 1 million patrons come through its doors. Since cutting its ribbon in 2017, K. O. Lee Aberdeen (S.Dak.) Public Library ...

Helping people navigate their way through a new library is an important design consideration. The following libraries use a variety of methods, both subtle and overt, to help patrons know where they ...

What to Know San Diego Public Library teamed up with artist Keithan Jones to design a limited-edition Comic-Con library card.

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

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) selected seven winners of the 2016 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards. The goal of the program is to recognize and ...

An uplifting new library in Manhattan comes with 12 floors of subsidized apartments. It’s a clever way to find community support for housing. By Michael Kimmelman Why can’t we do more of this more ...

The design proposal for the Daegu Gosan Public Library aim towards becoming a knowledge based city by putting a strong emphasis on the multiple roles of a library as a knowledge based center ...

On the outside, the building appears to be crouching. Inside, it leaps to serve you on platforms floating in cocoons of colored light. Crouching tiger, leaping building: If Rem Koolhaas' new library ...

APPLETON - The architect for the city's $26.4 million library project has designed the building to bring nature in and push programming out. Now, officials want to know what the public thinks about it ...