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 ...

In the main salon of the collector Giorgio Taroni’s home on Italy’s Lake Como, a chestnut staircase curves around a nook ...

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 ...

"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 ...

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) selected seven winners of the 2016 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards. The goal of the program is to recognize and ...

Many academic planners assumed that the coming of the Internet would lead to the decline of the library as we know it. To the contrary, many academic libraries have experienced significantly increased ...

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 ...

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 ...