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LI City Study / Greater Dog Architects

June 12, 2023 Collin Chen 0

“Demolishing is a decision of easiness and short term,”said Anne Lacaton. “It is a waste of many things – a waste of energy, a waste of material, and a waste of history.” The sense of life in architecture lies in the duration of time, which is closely related to the usage scenario. However, buildings also have their own life cycle, whether it is the decline of the building’s own functions, changes in social demands, or new requirements by local policies, all of which become opportunities for old buildings to be rejuvenated.

North Campus Library, Northwest A&F University / Architectural Design & Research Institute of SCUT – TaoZhi Studio

May 26, 2023 Collin Chen 0

As a new big building in the old campus, the design fully considered the relationship with the axis of the campus and the surrounding landscape. Building in a peaceful, simple, open form, to the campus. We try to build a campus culture center that integrates study and research, knowledge innovation, and leisure experience.

Les Halles Building Media Library and Multifunctional Space / Zita Architectes

May 24, 2023 Hadir Al Koshta 0

The project aims to transform a “temple of consumption” (the existing commercial building) into a “cathedral of culture”; not in the sense of replacing one with the other, but by taking the best of both.

Architecture Classics: Gabriel García Márquez Cultural Center / Rogelio Salmona

May 22, 2023 Laura Sáenz 0

The Centro Cultural García Márquez is an iconic building located in downtown Bogotá. Its sinuous forms and the dialogue it establishes between time and place are perceptible at various scales. The project was initiated by the Fondo de Cultura Económica de México in 2004 as a cultural contribution by its Colombian branch. Designed by Rogelio Salmona, unfortunately, he passed away in October 2007, a year before its completion in 2008.

Architecture Classics: Virgilio Barco Library / Rogelio Salmona

May 17, 2023 Laura Sáenz 0

Located in the Teusaquillo neighborhood, in the northeastern sector of Bogotá, the Virgilio Barco Library forms a complex integrated by the Simón Bolívar Metropolitan Park and the Virgilio Barco Library Park. The consolidation of the social, recreational, and cultural development center displays the library a particular approach between the built work and the natural capital environment. Through its tour, it progressively reveals the solution of a program designed to form a cultural and landscape ensemble omitting its position within the city.

A Glass-Enclosed Library And Home Office Creates A Separate Space Inside This Apartment

May 15, 2023 Erin 0

Canadian design firm Level Studio has shared photos of a loft apartment located in a building that was once home to offices but has been converted into residential apartments. One of the eye-catching design elements that caught our eye, is the library and home office. Originally a den with a much smaller opening, the designers […]

Zikawei Library / Wutopia Lab

April 30, 2023 Collin Chen 0

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. — Dead Poets Society (1989)

Zikawei Library: Basilica in the library – At the beginning of 2023, the Zikawei Library, designed by Wutopia Lab for four years, was officially opened. Coming to be the most sensational cultural landmark in Shanghai, it was also the first time that the project was known to the whole city before the official announcement from the studio. Now, this article is more like a summary instead of its unveiling. Before it became the Zikawei Library, the building was designed as a bookstore by David Chipperfield Architects. Unfortunately, just after the facade and the structure of the building were completed, the building was left vacant. After two investments of the bookstore had bowed out, this building was eventually designated to be the public library in Zikawei District and named the Zikawei Library.

Gabriel García Márquez Library / SUMA Arquitectura

April 28, 2023 Benjamin Zapico 0

The Gabriel Garcia Marquez Library is located in a dense urban node of the city of Barcelona, and it is precisely this context that causes the geometry of the construction to adapt to the conditions of the environment, replicating the chamfer, a typical urban resource of Barcelona that is consistently found in the surroundings of this metropolis.

Katsura Library at Kyoto University / K.ASSOCIATES/Architects

April 12, 2023 Hana Abdel 0

The Faculty of Engineering of Kyoto University, originally located at the main campus of Hyakumanben in the northeast part of Kyoto City, has followed the gradual move to a new campus in Katsura, the western part of Kyoto. This new Katsura campus was built with strict image control, to create a unified theme for the entire campus. And the project this time was to set up a new library for the Katsura campus. In 2015, we were assigned to come up with a proposal for building this library, to be submitted to the Ministry of Culture and Science. The site was already designated in the total campus plan. It faced the office wing of the Faculty of Engineering, with a distant view over a bamboo forest, of the streets of Kyoto City to the east. The first plan was made in conjunction with the guidelines from the Faculty of Engineering.

White Sheet Reading Pavilion / Ninja Stuudio

March 28, 2023 Pilar Caballero 0

“White Sheet” is a tiny public library or a reading pavilion located in Kadriorg, Tallinn, with its architecture inspired by the image of a literary idea. There are always ideas in the air and so also the pavilion’s roof hovers as a light sheet of paper in mid-air relying only on the glass shelves below. The shelves are filled with books forming a kind of wall that gives some privacy to the people in the pavilion.