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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In East New York, Brooklyn, Remembrance Plaza continues reconciliation with connection to an African American Burial Ground, and soon a new library. (Courtesy MASS Design Group and Marble Fairbanks ...

The CEO of the Obama Foundation offered an inside look at the former president's controversial presidential library, addressing lingering concerns over its design. The monumental project in Chicago is ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin's Architecture & Planning Library will soon have a new name honoring a pioneer in the architecture world. John Chase, a Black student, enrolled in ...

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 ...