Library

Explore 9 award-winning designs tagged Library on Lifestyle Design.

Designer: Zhaoxiong Han Design Type: Library Classification: Interior

The Transformed Repository

The Transformed Repository reimagines a historical warehouse in Detroit, transforming it into a modern library and cafe. The design preserves the building's industrial character while introducing a new structural volume to create layered spaces for reading and gathering. Skylights and high clerestory windows bring natural light into the space, enhancing its warmth and openness. This adaptive reuse project serves as a model for sustainable urban revitalization, blending historical preservation with contemporary functionality, and creating a vibrant community hub.

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Designer: Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan Design Type: Library Classification: Interior

Ripple of Knowledge

Ripple of Knowledge is a school library interior located in Taipei City. The concept of ripples serves as the central theme of the design. Curved elements define the different zones, while low cabinets work as storage, seating and space dividers, keeping the space open and visually continuous. Curved cabinets and flowing light strips guide circulation. A curved counter faces the main entrance at the center, so the librarian can oversee all areas. A corner with long curved bookshelves, a projector and a screen forms a stage for teaching and events.

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Designer: Jing Wei Lin Design Type: Library Classification: Interior

Jen Teh

Jen Teh is a library interior designed across four floors. The first floor holds the book area, with double-sided open bookcases, a sky bookshelf and a stepped reading area that can also serve as a small speech space. The second floor offers long-table and bar-type self-study zones, and a screen used for art display. The third floor contains a medical functional classroom that simulates real situations for teaching. The fourth floor holds an international conference hall and a multimedia audio-visual room. Warm wood at the entrance creates a calm reading atmosphere.

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Designer: Muchuan Xu Design Type: Library Classification: Interior

Jinan Cultural Archives Center

Jinan Cultural Archives Center is a library interior located in the Lixia District of Jinan, Shandong Province. The library is one of eight venues within the cultural and archives center and occupies the second to fourth floors on the southwest side of the building. The design reorganizes circulation, adjusts the escalator position and reshapes the atrium edge. Glass partitions open views between areas and create a calm reading atmosphere. The result is a shared space where residents of different ages can read, meet and take part in cultural activities.

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Designer: Sha Li Design Type: Library Classification: Interior

The Satori Harbor

The Satori Harbor is a library located inside a corporate headquarters in Guangzhou. The library is arranged as an abstract harbor city where readers can wander among books. A gallery displays paintings collected from many countries, placed without hierarchy. A circular window at the end of a corridor frames a small view of the city. A boat form is built with steel framing and coated with stucco. Printed fabric screens show facades of old buildings near the Guangzhou harbor. Walls and floors are finished in stucco, and the curved steps use beige terrazzo.

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Designer: CHENG HUI HSIN Design Type: Library Classification: Interior

Unique Reading Area

The library is located in a quiet and natural environment. The lobby is designed with virtual and real hollows between the grilles to connect the staggered relationship between people and space, creating a sense of overlap between light, shadow and space. A large number of bookshelf designs use vertical and horizontal lines to construct space, and use linear lighting to embellish, refract, penetrate and focus, creating more gathering spaces close to nature. The designer hopes to promote children's physical and mental development in this parent-child friendly reading area.

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Designer: Wei-Ju, Wang Design Type: Library Classification: Interior

The Winding Sunlight

The Winding Sunlight is a picture book library designed for preschool children. The layout is open and flexible, and areas are not strictly divided. Free curves, arcs and three-dimensional geometric forms guide movement through the space. Mustard green and turkey blue are combined with wooden materials for a calm and lively tone. Functions are hidden within cabinets, and rounded windows frame the views. Curved bookcases, a spiral reading room, a curved ladder and a wooden grid ceiling encourage free exploration by young children.

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Designer: FENG I-MING Design Type: Library Classification: Interior

Impression of the Sunset by the Sea

This is a new library for an old community. In order to provide the community with a center where people can meet and read and unite the people of the community to work together for a new life, this library will become a new symbol of the community. The concept and impression of the design comes from the sunset over the sea. The sunlight outside during the daytime shines through the orange tinted glass and brings a romantic feeling to the whole space under the curved structure.

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Designer: Zhang Jinyu Design Type: Library Classification: Architecture

Floating Chip

This library is more like a floating chip, an artificial cloud. But what is certain is that it brings great appeal to the community. An opportunity to become a city business card. The floor of the Library is free and horizontal. The project wants to use the advantages of technology to maximize the liberation of reading space and the re-interpretation of urban publicity. The library uses a steel truss roof to suspend the floor so that the transmission of force is from top to bottom. The interaction between people and space achieves the goal of the highly flexible cross-cultural atmosphere.

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