Minna No Mori | Toyo Ito
Minna No Mori Daylighting has always been one of the most significant aspects in the design of a library. Architects have consistently worked towards maximizing its usage, thereby minimizing ...
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The Dutch Windwheel | Dutch Windwheel Corporation
The Dutch Windwheel The Dutch Windwheel, a pioneering innovation, is a 174 metre tall wind mill, hotel, apartment complex and tourist attraction. An initiative by the Dutch Windwheel Corporation, ...
Ningbo Central Library | Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Ningbo Central Library photography by © Adam Mørk The Danish architecture office Schmidt Hammer Lassen has won an international competition in 2013 to design a library in the Chinese city ...
The Kwame Nkrumah Presidential Library | MCA
The Kwame Nkrumah Presidential Library Samia Nkrumah, The daughter of Kwame Nkrumah a political leader who led Ghana to independence in 1957, had a dream to build a presidential library called The ...
The Cathedral of Transformation | BK. Architecten
The Cathedral of Transformation This is a very curious and at the same time, educational example of building conversion from a 15th-century-Dominican church into a modern bookstore with a shop and a ...
Helsinki Central Library | Jorge Hernandez de la Garza
Helsinki Central Library Sustainable design projects have evolved tremendously over the years and now nearly every building tries to take advantage of some of these strategies. It has almost come to ...
Christchurch Central Library | Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Christchurch Central Library Forming part of the urban strategy to recover Christchurch after the New Zealand earthquake in 2011, this project was meant to be the principle agent in revitalising the ...
New Central Library | Snøhetta and DIALOG
New Central Library The Calgary Municipal Land Corporation selected Snøhetta and Canadian firm DIALOG to design a New Central Library. Since then, Snøhetta lead the architecture and landscape ...
New Modern Library Competition | Sang-Uk & Heeyun
New Modern Library Competition This is an entry for the AWR Copenhagen New Modern Library Competition by Sang-Uk & Heeyun. The project is centered around the park, sea, and the city, the ...
Copenhagen Book House | Saeid Kalantari
The project published here was submitted to “COPENHAGEN NEW MODERN LIBRARY” competition (in AWR Competition). Although the project did not make it among the competition top ranked projects, we are ...
Daegu Gosan Public Library | Sunggi Park
Daegu Gosan Public Library design proposal by Sunggi Park a design assistant at BIG challenges the traditional notion of a library as merely a distribution centre for knowledge..His aim in this ...
Helsinki central library | Urban Office Architecture
The American “Urban Office Architecture” by the principle lead of Carlo Enzo Architect, introduce their proposal for the Helsinki central library. The architectural practice focuses explicitly on ...