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Kazunari Sakamoto creates art library in Shanghai museum for Chanel

December 20, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

Japanese architect Kazunari Sakamoto has renovated the third floor of Shanghai’s Power Station of Art museum, transforming it into an art library named Espace Gabrielle Chanel. Espace Gabrielle Chanel is the first public library in China dedicated to contemporary art and design. It was designed by Sakamoto for a collaboration between fashion house Chanel and the

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Studio Ben Allen revamps Kent farmhouse with playful colour scheme

December 11, 2025 Rheanna Hopkins 0

London practice Studio Ben Allen has completed its renovation of A Place in the Country, a former farmhouse in rural Kent, introducing a playful colour scheme and an oak-lined library. Studio Ben Allen reconfigured the home to clarify a series of alterations made over time, improving circulation and creating distinct spaces for entertaining, reading, work

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Kéré Architecture reveals designs of its “first built project in South America”

November 28, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Berlin-based studio Kéré Architecture has revealed designs for the Biblioteca dos Saberes in Rio de Janeiro, which features perforated facades and a cylinder that rises from its centre. Biblioteca dos Saberes will be located in the city’s Cidade Nova neighbourhood and across from architect Oscar Niemeyer’s Sambódromo parade ground, where the Rio Carnival takes place

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Lake Flato Architects evokes “feeling of being on a porch” at Texas library

October 27, 2025 Kate Mazade 0

Texas studio Lake Flato Architects has created a library with a porch-like scheme, featuring mass-timber elements and a designated space for children, outside of Austin, Texas, USA. Completed in 2024, the 47,000-square-foot (4,365-square-metre) Cedar Park Public Library sits on two tree-filled acres and was the first building constructed in the new 50-acre Bell District, which

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Studio Empathy and Praxes design library at Korean Cultural Center New York

October 20, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Traditional Korean architecture influenced the layout and shelving design in the library at the Korean Cultural Center New York, designed by Studio Empathy and Praxes. Changhaak Choi of Studio Empathy and Jiyoung Kim from Praxes worked together to complete the 1,600-square-foot (149-square-metre) library, located on the third floor of the Korean Cultural Center New York’s

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Snøhetta wraps Queens library in orange ombre glass covered with script

October 14, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architecture studio Snøhetta has completed the Far Rockaway Library in New York, which is wrapped in fritted, orange ombre glass covered with thin, white script by Brooklyn artist José Parlá. Located in the Far Rockaway neighbourhood of Queens, the building replaces a former library on site and doubles its size. At 18,000 square feet (1,672

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MAB3 and Zénite create forest of books for a Brazilian library

June 4, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Brazilian architecture studio MAB3 and Zénite Arquitetura & Construção have teamed up to install a wood-wrapped library in a school in São Paulo. The 470-square metre Graded School Library was completed in 2023 in a building constructed in 1961. The library is the American school’s latest addition after architect Siegbert Zenettini updated the building in

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Grade II-listed Oxford college library updated with oak-lined interiors

May 16, 2024 Starr Charles 0

British architecture studios Nex and Donald Insall Associates have renovated the neo-gothic Exeter College Library at the University of Oxford, originally constructed by George Gilbert Scott in 1857. Addressing a need for additional study spaces and improved accessibility of the Grade II-listed building, the studios implemented a series of contemporary interventions including the addition of

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Parallel Studio creates Mariam’s Library for young students in Zanzibar

May 5, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Architecture practice Parallel Studio has punctured the white walls of this children’s library in Zanzibar with small holes, providing natural ventilation and casting shadows across books inside. Named Mariam’s Library, the building occupies an empty plot in the village of Mwanyanya and is designed as an “inviting and inclusive environment conducive to learning, creativity, and

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Dezeen Debate features Snøhetta library with a “feeling of extravagance”

February 29, 2024 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features Beijing City Library in China by Snøhetta. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. The Beijing City Library in China, designed by Norwegian studio Snøhetta, features a glass-lined structure punctuated by towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. Commenters analysed the structure closely, with one characterising it as

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