Key Library Architecture - no images, alphabetical:

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
1868
Henri Labrouste

Birchfield Library, Birmingham, England
2007-
Cottrell & Vermeulen Architects

Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge, UK
1934
Giles Gilbert Scott

Centennial Hills Library, Las Vegas, Nevada. USA
2009
URS Corporation
Centennial Hills Library

Chongqing Library, Chongqing, China
2007
Perkins Eastman

Fuencarral public library, Spain
1998
Andrés Perea Ortega

Irvine Science Library, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
-
James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates Ltd with IBI Group

National Library of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2005-
Bolles-Wilson
Architecture competition winner

Peckham Library, London, UK
1999
Alsop & Stormer
Peckham Library : Stirling Prize winner 2000

Salt Lake City Main Public Library, Utah, USA
-
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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Birmingham Library Competition

Contemporary Interiors

Advocates Library Edinburgh

National Library of Scotland

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

British Library

Prague Library building

Halmstad Library building

Cambridge Law Library building

National Library of Scotland building

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