"I had always yearned for a double-height library, since books are my life," wrote author Andrew Solomon in our September 2017 story about the restoration of his crumbling New York City townhouse, a ...

It was the Roman scholar Marcus Tullius Cicero who said, "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." Here at AD, we tend to agree. When it comes to design luxuries, a personal ...

Do you dream of filling the walls of your home library with a fabulous book collection and riding past the packed shelves on your very own rolling library ladder? If the lack of square footage in your ...

Sharing your shelf is, in a way, sharing yourself. Every element —from the titles you choose to the way you organize them— says something about your personality and your interests. Who wouldn't want ...

Welcome to the 2023 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries that address patron needs in exciting and effective ways. This year’s selections ...

The concept of “place” is broadly defined, but it’s vital to how and where we live our lives. The “first place” is the home, where we live. The “second place” is where we work. The third exists as a ...

It may be 50 years old, but this dazzling D.C. library was 2021’s Building of the Year The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library underwent a remodel that kept the historic exterior but completely ...

Design a little free library, help a community, and win the opportunity for your library to be mass produced and have global impact. This competition was submitted by an ArchDaily user. If you'd like ...

The multi-year project will reimagine 112,749 square feet on the Library’s first and second floors to improve the visitor ...