The vast overhead space, a thrill to library visitors, works against readers -- most of us instinctively crave small, private spaces when curling up with a book.

Some libraries draw you in with their architecture, others with the history they hold. A few carry an atmosphere that’s ...

Andrew Berman, a gifted veteran of New York public architecture and its crazy bureaucracy, is the library architect. Chris Fogarty of Fogarty/Finger is the lead architect for the whole development.

This excerpt from The Practical Handbook of Library Architecture: Creating Building Spaces that Work (ALA Editions, 2018) discusses converting nonlibrary spaces into libraries, which can be similar to ...

Architecture critic Mark Lamster says at Dallas’ Vickery Park Branch Library, the answer is thoughtful modern design.

At the turn of the millennium, Reid Byers, a computer systems architect, set out to build a private library at his home in Princeton, N.J. Finding few books on library architecture that were not ...

At their meeting Sept. 9, library trustees said if plans fall through to build a new Grove City Library at the intersection of Broadway and Grant Avenue, then they will resort to Plan B: Staying ...

For a sneak peek into what a new Billings library might look like, architect Will Bruder would suggest that the clues are all around us.

The new architect brought in to work on the Norwell Public Library building project in no stranger to the area. Matt Oudens, of Oudens Ello Architecture, recently worked on the Scituate Town ...

The library information is in — now what do we do with it? Library architect Jeffrey Scherer will be back in town Aug. 26 to talk about the results of the public input on a new Norman library ...

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TOPSHOT - This picture taken on November 14, 2017 shows a woman taking pictures at the Tianjin Binhai Library. A futuristic Chinese library has wowed book lovers around the world with its white ...