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Library Architecture : Buildings
Major Buildings / Architectural Projects from around the world.
post updated 21 January 2026
e-architect’s editorial team select major contemporaryLibrary Architecture.
We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across the world. The focus is on contemporary library buildings.
We have 3 pages of Library Architecture selections.
Library Architecture
Library Buildings : news + key projects
Library Building Designs : A-K
Library Architecture : L-Z (this page)
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Library Building Designs
Key Contemporary Building Projects, alphabetical:
Law Library, Cambridge, England, UK
Design: Foster + Partners
picture : Adrian Welch
Cambridge Law Library Building
This modern structure on The Backs was apparently nicknamed by some Cambridge students as the ‘Bread Bin’. This rather stark Foster building contains the ‘relocated’ Squire Law library with generous atrium, five auditoria and offices.
Library España, Colombia
Design: Giancarlo Mazzanti Architect
photo : Sergio Gómez
Biblioteca Pública Santo Domingo
The program asked for a building with library, training rooms, an administration and an auditorium on a sole building. The proposal fragmented the program in three groups.
Library of the Future, Kortrijk, Belgium
Design: REX
image © Luxigon courtesy REX
Kortrijk Library design
The city of Kortrijk sought to create a library that would combine the functions of a traditional central library with a Life-Long Learning Center and bring in the city’s Music Center as an equal partner. The new combination was named the “LLLibrary.”
MedaTeca Building, near Milan, northern Italy
Design: Alterstudio Partners
photo from architects
MedaTeca Building, Lombardy
Open-Air-Library, Magdeburg, Germany
Design: KARO*
photo : Anja Schlamann
Open-Air-Library Magdeburg
Port Pirie Community Library Building, South Australia
Design: Kirkbride Boyce Architects
building photo from architect
Port Pirie Library Building
Royal Library extension, Copenhagen, Denmark
Design: Schmidt, Hammer & Lassen, Architects
picture : Adrian Welch
Sort Diamant : nicknamed the ‘Black Diamond’
Saint-Laurent Library Building, Canada
Design: various architects
picture from Client
Saint-Laurent Library Building
Seattle Public Library, Washington, USA
Design: Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA
photograph : Philippe Ruault
Seattle Public Library Building
Seville University Library, Spain
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
picture from architect
Seville University Library
Shenzhen University Town Library, Shenzhen, China
Design: RMJM Architects
photo : H. G. Esch
Shenzhen University library
Søgne Library and city hall, Norway
a-lab, Architects
picture : a-lab
Søgne City Hall
Stockholm Library Design, Sweden
Winner: Heike Hanada
image from AAC organisers
Stockholm Library building Competition
Surry Hills Library Building, NSW, Australia
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp
image : John Gollings courtesy by FJMT
Surry Hills Library Building
Taltal Public Library, Chile
Murúa-Valenzuela
photo © macarenaalvarez
Biblioteca Pública Taltal
Tianjin Binhai Library, China
KDG group, INC
image from architects
Tianjin Library Building
Turku City Library, Finland
JKMM Architects
picture : Arno de la Chapelle
Turku City Library Building
Waalse Krook Gent, Gent, Belgium
UNStudio
image © Mir_www.mir.no
Zonnebeke Library, Flanders, Belgium
Wim Supply Architect
photograph : Jan Theuninck
Zonnebeke Library
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Library Buildings – No Images
Key Library Architecture – L-Z, alphabetical:
National Library of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2005-
Bolles-Wilson
Architecture competition winner
New Queens Library, New York, USA
2010-
Design: Steven Holl Architects
New Queens Library
Peckham Library, London, UK
1999
Alsop & Stormer
Peckham Library : Stirling Prize winner 2000
Salt Lake City Main Public Library, Utah, USA
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Moshe Safdie Architects
Sant Antoni-Joan Oliver Library, Barcelona, Spain
2007
RCR Arquitectes
incl. Senior Citizens Day Centre
State public library, Granada, Spain
1995
Andrés Perea Ortega
Stockholm Library, Sweden
1927
Erik Gunnar Asplund
Tokyo University Library, Japan
2007
Shigeru Ban
Viana do Castelo – Library, northern Portugal
2007
Alvaro Siza Architects
Viipuri Library (Vyborg), Russia
1932
Alvar Aalto
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Library Architecture Links
Birmingham Library Competition
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