Danish practice schmidt hammer lassen architects (SHL Architects) has won an international competition to design “Urban Mediaspace”, the largest public library in Scandinavia.  The €228 ($288) million scheme, located in Aarhus, Denmark, will become a new visual and cultural focal point for the city whilst pioneering the next generation of…

London-based drdharchitects has won first place in the international competition to design a new library and concert hall in Bodø, Norway. The Bodø Kulturhus and Library will consist of two public buildings; a new city library (5,500m²) and a three-auditorium concert hall (7,350m²), creating a new cultural center…

The Woburn Public Library Expansion Ideas Competition recently revealed three winners and two honorable mentions. With 100 received proposals in total, the jury decided to award New York-based Lacina Heitler Architects with the first prize. The intent of this ideas competition was to broaden the field of ideas through…

California State University Channel Islands in Camarillo, California announces that the John Spoor Broome Library has been named a winner in the California Construction magazine Best of 2008 awards program. The Library won the Award of Merit in the Outstanding Architectural Design category. An independent jury of industry experts in…

Austin, Texas - This week, the Austin City Council selected a team to design the new Central Library located on the site of the Seaholm Substation plot at 704 W. Cesar Chavez Street. The chosen design team is Lake|Flato Architects and Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott.

At a meeting on September 3, the Oslo City Parliament passed the resolution that the Deichman Main Library, the Munch Museum and the Stenersen Museum are to be placed in the area of Bjørvika in the nearby of other cultural institutions. Yesterday, the RFQ-commitee for the international design competition that…

Mecanoo was selected from a short list of seven major architects to design the largest library in Europe Announced today, Dutch Mecanoo architecten, led by Francine Houben, have been selected to design the new £193 million Library of Birmingham. The new Library will be developed on a prime site on…