This is a guest post from Antonina of OpenBuildings - a community-driven and openly editable encyclopaedia of buildings from around the world, and very soon also – www.Clippings.com.
In the age of rapid information technology development and the Internet, the library has inevitably lost some of its glamour, or at least, its granted presence within people’s lives and, thus – within cities and even campuses. Rising concerns over how to keep the young people there without driving away the so called Premium Age demographic group – made up of those 50 and over, have surely left their mark on the architecture of libraries. So what has been done, from an architectural point of view, to keep libraries alive and as meaningfully present in city life as ever?
Mazzanti & Arquitectos: España Library
image: Sergio Gomez
image: Sergio Gomez
inFORM studio: Traverwood Library
image: Justin Maconochie
image: Justin Maconochie
HELEN & HARD: Vennesla Library
image: Emile Ashley
image: Emile Ashley
LOOK Architects: Bishan Public Library
image: Patrick Bingham-Hall
image: Patrick Bingham-Hall
Frye Gillan Molinaro Architects: The Poplar Creek Public Library
image: Lambros Photography
image: Lambros Photography
Yi Architects: New Stuttgart Library
image: Stuttgart Library
image: Yi Architects
Li Xiaodong Atelier: Liyuan Library
image: Li Xiaodong Atelier
image: Li Xiaodong Atelier
Coelacanth K&H Architects: Kanazawa Umimirai Library
image: Hirorinmasa @ Japanese Wikipedia
image: Satoshi Asakawa
FF Architekten: Bibliothek Luckenwalde Town Library
image: Andreas Meichsner
image: Andreas Meichsner
OMA: Seattle Central Library
image: Philippe Ruault
image: Philippe Ruault
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Ben Lee Taylor January 19, 2012
I grew up across from the Sahara West Library in Las Vegas, NV of all places. I always felt that architectural design was innovative and unique, especially in a place like Las Vegas.
http://library.nevada.edu/arch/buildings/saharawestlibrary.jpg
Ben G January 30, 2012
There are too many advertisements on this website.
Great architecture in the article though.