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GREEN SQUARE LIBRARY AND PLAZA, SYDNEY An ‘urban living room’ is how Matthias Hollenstein refers to his firm’s design of Green S ...

towards a hive of activity – was also employed by COBE in its design of Tingbjerg Library and Culture House in Copenhagen. Multi ...

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Jim Favaro and Steve Johnson pose in the children’s Storytime Theatre, which belongs to the West Hollywood Library their office ...

According to the architects at Johnson Favaro, university libraries are adopting the culture of invention prevailing in Silicon ...

‘THANKS TO DIGITIZATION and electronic storage opportunities, the lion’s share of research no longer requires the ubiquitous pre ...

Johnson Favaro transformed an old school cafeteria on the ground floor of one of UCLA’s 1960s residential towers into a hybrid s ...

Five ways to future-proof the university library STEVE JOHNSON AND JIM FAVARO ➀ PLACE IT IN SIGHT We always say that the America ...

and teachers now realize that success in the future will be driven by their children’s ability to embrace the entrepre- neurial ...

Beyond Books-and-Mortar Developed by advertising agency Mother, Insta Novels offers followers of the New York Public Library’s I ...

In the age of screen-first media, libraries understand that elevating their digital offer can only help their mission to promote ...

OUR POWERS OF ATTENTION are failing, or so the headline reports keep reiterating. The span decreases decade to decade: 12 second ...

The assumption that ‘library’ necessarily means ‘analogue’ is long outdated net. To disenfranchised citizens, libraries are stil ...

With urban living space at a premium and information increasingly stored on digital devices, we question whether the shelf is at ...

More sculptural than functional, Mass is a series of rocklike shelves with a cork- terrazzo finish. Developed by Odd Matter, Mas ...

Palazzo, a bookshelf by Matteo Pacella and Philippine Hamen, is a modern interpretation of the arcade, an archetypal form of cla ...

Nomadic urban lives and temporary living situations have given rise to resourceful shelf designs that conformed to the shape of ...

What do four libraries designed by one firm over three decades say about the typology’s evolution? In OMA’s Book Words GILI MERI ...

ing rigorous research into its design methodology. Over three decades, OMA tackled the question of the library through four proj ...

Intended for Paris, La Très Grande Biblio- thèque was the title of OMA’s entry for an architecture competition launched by the F ...