The public’s appetite for starchitects has made the competition for President Obama’s library an ongoing, glamorous story, and on December 21 seven firms made the shortlist to present their vision of ...

If you think public libraries are an institution with a proud past but a problematic future you have to visit the new Elmhurst Public Library by Marpillero Pollak Architects. Commissioned in 2004 by ...

The library marks "a shift in how we think about cultural and civic buildings," the architect behind the project told ...

Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light at the Museum of Modern Art (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) While the New York Public Library is reconsidering their architecture through a ...

Oregon not only has respected innovating architects, it also attracts them. Frank Lloyd Wright, one of America’s most ...

Text description provided by the architects. Numerous studies have shown that elementary and middle school students who have access to and regularly use libraries achieve higher test scores than those ...

Construction began in early April of a new design for Jerusalem's $200-million National Library of Israel, after the original project architect was replaced. Design of the library, set to replace a ...

Since his Burton Barr Phoenix Central Library opened in 1995, Will Bruder has been the architect library officials call whenever the 280,000-square-foot building needs an update. The area that once ...

Aaaaand we’re back, from outer space, and just walked in to find you with that rad look upon your face ... I’m Carolina A. Miranda, a culture columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s ...

The city has filed a lawsuit against the architects who designed the flashy-but-inaccessible Hunters Point Library in Queens, saying the firm should be forced to cover the $10 million needed to make ...