One would be hard-pressed to find a house without books. Besides providing the joys of reading, books are accessories that can personalize a room, dust a neutral space with color, and bring warmth and ...

Embarking on a new design or renovation project at your library can be overwhelming. These works, ranging from books on user design to volumes on architectural planning, will help spark ideas. Doucett ...

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 ...

American Libraries is accepting submissions for the 2026 Library Design Showcase in the September/October issue.

Many academic planners assumed that the coming of the Internet would lead to the decline of the library as we know it. To the contrary, many academic libraries have experienced significantly increased ...

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 ...

I’m angry that the two biggest architecture stories of New York 2019 are fuckups. The hollow grandeur of Hudson Yards and the evacuated spaces of the Hunters Point Library in Queens have turned what ...

GETTING THE FIRST LOOK AT. WHAT COULD BE OMAHA’S NEW CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY. THANKS FOR JOINING US HERE TONIGHT. ’I'M DAVID EARL THESE RENDERINGS SHOW WHAT THE 100 MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT WOULD LOOK ...