Three years after the Seattle Central Library opened to starbursts of praise, including mine, I am trying to understand why, when I need to spend a working day at a library, I retreat to the Bellevue ...

In an effort to modernize the Free Library of Philadelphia’s main building into a more accessible public destination, architect Moshe Safdie envisioned a design to nearly double the amount of space ...

Beyond the main library within the City College of New York’s Rafael Viñoly Architects–designed Spitzer School of Architecture building, a cobbled-together space composed of a former storage area and ...

The following article is an op-ed by Susan Bernofsky, chair of the PEN translation committee, originally published on her blog Translationista. Yesterday I was invited to tour the stacks at the 42nd ...

Building one of the first in Springfield to install electric lights Our “Architectural Treasures” series is produced in cooperation with AIA Dayton, a chapter of the American Institute of Architects ...

The design proposal for the Daegu Gosan Public Library aim towards becoming a knowledge based city by putting a strong emphasis on the multiple roles of a library as a knowledge based center ...

Text description provided by the architects. This 10,500-square-foot library, which occupies the bottom two floors of a residential highrise development in Battery Park City, was commissioned to meet ...