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The coolest little free library yet?
Check out what just popped up in the nolita neighborhood of New York City. A Little Free Library courtesy of a partnership between the Architectural League of New York and PEN World Voices Festival....
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“X” marks the spot for latest Rem Koolhaas library
Building on the phenomenal success of the Central Branch of the Seattle Public Library and the recent news that they will design the Qatar National Library Rem Koolhaas and his team at OMA now set...
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The Evolution of the Little Free Library
The Little Free Library movement has been evolving pretty rapidly. Their mantra is simple – “Take a Book, Return a Book.” When the movement began in 2009 most libraries looked like nothing more than...
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Holy Library! Quebec church transformed into a house for books
Originally built in 1964 by architect Jean-Marie Roy this church in Quebec has been masterfully transformed into a library by Dan Hanganu & Côté Leahy Cardas Architects. The library has been named...
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A stone barn is now the library at Cumbria University
Built in 1929 this stone barn used to house the student union at University of Cumbria‘s Ambleside Campus. Now with the help of John McAslan + Partners the stone barn has been transformed into the...
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Reading Room for One
For the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale artist Marta Wengorovius teamed with architect Francisco Aires Mateus to produce this little slice of paradise; a reading cabin for one. The simple wood...
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Little Free Library Love at the Seattle Design Festival
This year’s Seattle Design Festival included A Little Free Library Design/Build Competition called Libraries on the Loose! The challenge: To design, build and steward a Little Free Library (LFL)...
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Transforming Moscow’s Libraries; All 448 of them!
Dostoyevsky Library Interior Before and After Renovation. Image © Frans Parthesius A beautiful thing is happening to the public libraries of Moscow. Armed with extensive research on the benefits of a...
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Change has come to the library: Four architects imagine the Obama...
Sketch by Richard Dattner of a potential Obama Presidential Library. As President Barack Obama’s tenure winds down and we mourn the lack of promised change that was to come to America perhaps it is...
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A library built with 50,000 free books hopes to debut at the Bay Area Book...
It’s called Lacuna and if all goes well this spectacular homage to books, libraries and public space will be open for business at the Bay Area Book Festival that will be held in June. Commissioned by...
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The latest, coolest library is in a concrete building on the beach in China
The latest, coolest, looking library comes to us from the white sandy beach of Nandaihe, China. Facing the East China Sea the Seaside Library brings all the amenities of a contemporary library right...
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The Public Collection: A new public art and literacy project
This August eight unique artist created libraries will grace the streets of Indianapolis. Under the moniker of The Public Collection these amazing micro libraries will be spread over the city and...
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Library de Kimpel
Belgium’s Library de Kimpel is the latest library featured at arch daily. Designed by Adem Architecten the new library was part of a master plan that included turning the existing library into...
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Trouble in the land of Little Free Libraries
Todd Bol, the founder of Little Free Library, died in 2018. (Jim Mone/AP) The Washington Post is reporting on a feud in the Little Free Library world between the founder’s younger...
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Reading Room for One
For the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale artist Marta Wengorovius teamed with architect Francisco Aires Mateus to produce this little slice of paradise; a reading cabin for one. The simple wood...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Little Free Library Love at the Seattle Design Festival
This year’s Seattle Design Festival included A Little Free Library Design/Build Competition called Libraries on the Loose! The challenge: To design, build and steward a Little Free Library (LFL)...
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Transforming Moscow’s Libraries; All 448 of them!
Dostoyevsky Library Interior Before and After Renovation. Image © Frans Parthesius A beautiful thing is happening to the public libraries of Moscow. Armed with extensive research on the benefits of a...
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Change has come to the library: Four architects imagine the Obama...
Sketch by Richard Dattner of a potential Obama Presidential Library. As President Barack Obama’s tenure winds down and we mourn the lack of promised change that was to come to America perhaps it is...
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A library built with 50,000 free books hopes to debut at the Bay Area Book...
It’s called Lacuna and if all goes well this spectacular homage to books, libraries and public space will be open for business at the Bay Area Book Festival that will be held in June. Commissioned by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The latest, coolest library is in a concrete building on the beach in China
The latest, coolest, looking library comes to us from the white sandy beach of Nandaihe, China. Facing the East China Sea the Seaside Library brings all the amenities of a contemporary library right...
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