The library marks "a shift in how we think about cultural and civic buildings," the architect behind the project told ...

The public’s appetite for starchitects has made the competition for President Obama’s library an ongoing, glamorous story, and on December 21 seven firms made the shortlist to present their vision of ...

If you think public libraries are an institution with a proud past but a problematic future you have to visit the new Elmhurst Public Library by Marpillero Pollak Architects. Commissioned in 2004 by ...

Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light at the Museum of Modern Art (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) While the New York Public Library is reconsidering their architecture through a ...

Libraries, according to architect Andrew Berman, principal of Andrew Berman Architect, do not age gracefully. As technological innovations and transforming communities change the role of these public ...

Since his Burton Barr Phoenix Central Library opened in 1995, Will Bruder has been the architect library officials call whenever the 280,000-square-foot building needs an update. The area that once ...

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?

Text description provided by the architects. Located at the crossroads of North Beach with spectacular city views, the new branch library provides valuable community services to the diverse urban ...

The city has filed a lawsuit against the architects who designed the flashy-but-inaccessible Hunters Point Library in Queens, saying the firm should be forced to cover the $10 million needed to make ...

Pascale Sablan wears many hats. She’s a senior associate at S9 Architecture, the historian and northeast regional VP of the National Organization of Minority Architects, and the founder and executive ...

The Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT), in Ahmedabad holds a special place in the hearts and minds of the generations of architects who have studied there since the school’s ...