Keith Williams Architects' library and art gallery in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, is a critical building block in the town's social infrastructure and a well-used civic space. Â
WORKac’s dynamic and community-focused library in Boulder, Colorado, serves a diverse neighbourhood of new developments, art studios, and Spanish-speaking communities.
Haworth Tompkins' £14.5 million transformation of the Warburg Institute in London's Bloomsbury includes the Institute’s first gallery, a 140-seat auditorium, and a state-of-the-art centre for special collections.
DRDH Architects has delivered a combined library, cinema and residential building for the London suburb of Sidcup. Madeleine Jacob examines the tensions between commercial viability and civic ambition.
Studio Weave's extension to Lea Bridge Library, in Waltham Forest, achieved with the help of the GLA, caters for a growing, diverse community.
Eddie Blake of Studio Weave looks at Lea Bridge Library, recently extended by the practice, and what it means to genuinely serve a community today.
Ian Volner revisits Gunnar Asplund's eccentric Stockholm library, which showcases the competing impulses of an architect who embraced Premodernism, Modernism and even Postmodernism – decades before the term came into popular use.
White Arkitekter has completed one of the world's tallest hybrid timber buildings, a cultural complex culminating in a 75-metre-tall tower in Skellefteå, Sweden.
Building
MICA completes a major renovation and extension within one of London's historic legal estates
Interiors
A tactile timber skin lines the repurposed interior of a listed seventeenth-century hospital in Baiona, Spain, by Murado & Elvira Arquitectos
Building Review
Fletcher Priest’s New Academic Centre neatly reframes St Anne’s College, Oxford, finds Tim Abrahams
Building Review
Bennetts Associates’ Storyhouse gives form to a rich blend of cultural activities
