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Köpenick Library by Bruno Fioretti Marquez Architekten, Berlin-Köpenick, Germany

Bruno Fioretti Marquez Architekten create a powerful civic presence their central library for the district of Köpenick. Photography by Alessandr Chemollo

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Library and Senior Citizens' Centre by RCR Arquitectes, Barcelona, Spain

RCR Arquitectes’ restrained black gateway building unifies the street with an existing under utilised courtyard. Photography by Eugeni Pons and Hisao Suzuki

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Musashino Art University Library by Sou Fujimoto Architects, Tokyo, Japan

It is the plan of Musashino Art University Library by Sou Fujimoto Architects that brings distinction to the design, combining conceptual clarity with functional rigour. Photography by Edmund Sumner

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Reyner Banham on Stirling's Cambridge History Faculty

Reyner Banham’s essay on the History Faculty, Cambridge, first published November 1968

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Helmond City Library by Bolles+Wilson, Helmond, The Netherlands

The completion of a library by Bolles+Wilson in The Netherlands raises great expectations – which are not disappointed. Photography by Christian Richters

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Biblioteca España by Giancarlo Mazzanti & Arquitectos

Oriel Prizeman examines six recent libraries in the first of a new quarterly series on typology

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Veil and grid: Library by Li Xiaodong, China

The beautiful rippling veil of slim sticks and timber interior ensures this modest communal village library connects with its setting, stimulating both mind and eye

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Stuttgart City Library by Yi Architects

Boldly plundering historical sources, this new library in Stuttgart is both rich in allusion and full of surprises

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A light touch: Bing Thom's Library in Canada

Daylight and books are often regarded as incompatible, but this library in Metro Vancouver is a poetic and scientific sculpting of light that animates a dramatic interior

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The Women's Library by Wright & Wright, London

On the site of a Victorian public baths, a new library and archive illuminates women’s lives and is a model of good practice in environmental regulation

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Book Mountain: MVRDV's Library in Spijkenisee, Rotterdam

The short shelf life of this Dutch library’s collection enabled MVRDV to turn the spines out to face the town and invite in its inhabitants

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Mecanoo's Central Library in Birmingham

Beyond the flamboyance of its facade, Birmingham’s ambitious new public library is a model of enlightened collaboration between architect and client

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Taking Root: Joan Maragall Library, Barcelona, Spain, by BCQ Arquitectura

The fragmented, verdant structure of this semi-subterranean library creates a different kind of public space in Barcelonaʼs urban milieu

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Library and Concert Hall in Bodø, Norway by DRDH

In a remote Norwegian town on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a new library and concert hall transcend their cultural brief to become, in effect, the townʼs public realm

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Helsinki University Library in Finland by Anttinen Oiva Architects

Enticing both town and gown, Helsinki Universityʼs new central library marries scholarliness with commerce, reflecting the changing character of academic institutions and the nature of public space

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Micro Organism: Hutong infill in Beijing, China, by Standard Architecture

A deft intervention in one of Beijingʼs labyrinthine hutongs attempts to improve amenities without destroying heritage or catalysing gentrification

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X Marks the Spot: Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville in Caen by OMA

The Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville in Caen combines four separate libraries, with the goal to encourage exchange

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Well read: Hyundai Card Cooking Library, 2017, and Design Library, 2013 in...

Like the royal libraries of the Joseon dynasty, Hyundai Card’s library series are impressive and valuable repositories of knowledge, but reserved for the use of the privileged, credit card-wielding few

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Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale by OMA: Rem Koolhaas, Clement...

Oriel Prizeman examines six recent libraries in the first of a new quarterly series on typology

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Rolex Learning Center by SANAA

Oriel Prizeman examines six recent libraries in the first of a new quarterly series on typology

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Seashore Library in Beidaihe, China by Vector Architects

The Seashore Library is a subtle Modernist intervention from the next generation of Chinese architects

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2006 June: 'Midwest Modesty', Iowa Central Public Library by David...

[ARCHIVE] As part of an ambitious landscape regeneration strategy, Chipperfield brings figure to the city grid through his Iowa Central Public Library

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All in the mound: Maya Somaiya Library in Kopargaon, India, by Sameep Padora...

AR Library Highly Commended: in the Maya Somaiya Library, the constraints of the site paved the way for invention

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The open book: The Pinch, Shuanghe village, China by Olivier Ottevaere and...

AR Library Highly Commended: community needs, the role of the public domain and disaster relief all coalesce in The Pinch, an imaginative timber structure by Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin of the...

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Square the circle: Green Square Library in Sydney, Australia by Stewart...

AR Library Winner: unconventional but uncompromising, Stewart Hollenstein’s Green Square development offers far more than the typical library

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Shelf life: CTLES extension, Bussy-Saint-Georges, France, by Antonini Darmon

AR Library Commended: Antonini Darmon’s extension to the storage facility for Paris’s educational libraries both increases and futureproofs the space

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Reading between the lines: Changsha library, Hunan Province, China, by Neri&Hu

AR Library recalled: while Neri&Hu’s proposal for the Jinyu Community Library in Changsha, China, was initially shortlisted by the judges, Austin Williams’ visit reveals a different story

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Revisit: Biblioteca Vasconcelos

Mexico City’s national lending library by Alberto Kalach + TAX allows for an unintentional plurality of inhabitation and experience

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Tales of the unexpected: Qatar National Library, Doha, by OMA

Women in Architecture Architect of the Year 2019 shortlist: rising from the Doha desert while also boring beneath its unrelenting dunes, OMA’s Qatar National Library is a series of paradoxes

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New Bodleian Library by Giles Gilbert Scott

Archive: October 1940. Editor JM Richards, under the pseudonym James MacQueady, provides sharp criticism of Gilbert Scott’s New Bodleian Library

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Phillip Exeter library in New Hampshire, USA, by Louis Kahn

Built with ‘the invitation of books’, Louis Kahn’s brick masterpiece is an essay in ‘authentic monumentality’

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From the archive: British Library in London by Colin St John Wilson and MJ Long

In memory of MJ Long who passed away on 3 September, we revisit Sherban Cantacuzino’s study of the designs for the proposed British Library from AR December 1978

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Binary mode: SHAU’s Microlibrary in Bandung

AR_EA 2016 Finalist: A bid to raise literacy rates in Indonesia, a library fashioned out of ice-cream buckets shelters a more informal community space 

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