LIBRARY DESIGNS

Lilavati Lalbhai Library / RMA Architects

Curving stone walls surround the Hefei River Central Smart Garden Library in China

The concept of bringing nature into a library building was recently explored by MSR Design and JRA Architects, whose green-roofed building is partially concealed by tall trees.

MSR Design and JRA Architects tucks Kentucky library in a grove of trees

Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Duke Humfrey’s Library, Oxford University, Oxford, England

Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, University of Chicago, Chicago

Linderman Library, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, Los Angeles

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