Welcome to the 2015 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries. These are shining examples of innovative architecture that address user needs in ...

For just over a year, Google’s hardware design team has been working inside a new, highly classified design studio. Only a small fraction of Google’s employees are allowed inside this beautiful, ...

A bookmobile designed by RIT students will soon roll into Rochester neighborhoods. Students in RIT’s School of Design spent the fall 2023 semester working with the Rochester Public Library (RPL) and ...

Where do patterns come from? While some might be computer-generated using the latest in image scanning and digital printing technologies, many more can be sourced to the Design Library–the world’s ...

Libraries have always been spaces for discovery. But in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, they have been tasked with transforming themselves into places that allow users to physically distance while ...

Maya Lin’s design for Smith College’s Neilson Library is an innovative, contemporary structure that presents a compelling vision for the modern library while respecting the existing building’s ...

One would be hard-pressed to find a house without books. Besides providing the joys of reading, books are accessories that can personalize a room, dust a neutral space with color, and bring warmth and ...

Main Libray renovation and expansion: Dayton-based, LWC Inc. $5,517,804 Northwest Branch new building: Dayton-based, Ruetschle Aritects Inc. $1,087,914 E.C. Doren ...

On the 26th floor, Library180 at a WSA building in the Financial District. Photo: Courtesy Library 180 Plenty has been written about New York City’s resurgence in genre bookshops — there’s Love and ...

WHENEVER NATACHA RAMSAY-LEVI—a longtime lieutenant to designer Nicolas Ghesquière—was on the hunt for inspiration for one of Balenciaga's collections, she headed to Wappingers Falls, a low-key, ...

The Ringling College of Art and Design officially opened and dedicated its new Alfred R. Goldstein Library on Wednesday, Jan. 25, with celebratory words from those most responsible for its creation on ...