The most surprising part of visiting the Charles Hayden Memorial Library at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is going inside. From the exterior, the stalwart ...

CannonDesign, HDR, Quinn Evans, Perkins&Will, JLG Architects, and McMillan Pazdan Smith top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation's largest public ...

When architects renovate a notable building, they often wonder how they might pay respect to the original work while giving the new spaces their own identity. The New York office of CannonDesign has ...

Welcome to the 2024 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Like the profession itself, library facilities are in a ...

Welcome to the 2022 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries that address user needs in inventive, interesting, and effective ways. This year’s ...

When the long-awaited Queens Public Library branch at Hunters Point opened on the shoreline smack across from the United Nations in the fall of 2019, we paid a visit to the stunning building, ...

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