Archello Awards 2023 has revealed its longlist for Library Building of the Year. The longlists celebrate the very best architecture projects and building products selected from over 1,000 entries for the very first edition of our awards program. The five projects listed here span the globe and have been designed by architecture studios hailing from France, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the USA.
La Conner Swinomish Library
BuildingWork
The La Conner Swinomish Library is an example of a significant collaboration between native and non-native communities. The new library honors both the culture of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and the history...
Médiathèque tiers-lieu
ZITA Architectes
The project is located in Courcelles-lès-Lens, a town of 7,500 inhabitants in the Hauts-de-France mining basin. Located in the center of the town, the urban fabric is essentially composed of traditonnal townhou...
National Library in Warsaw
KONIOR STUDIO
The main idea of the project became that assumption, that the building of the National Library building, while retaining all its previous advantages and modernist character requirements for storing and access to the collection as well as the technica...
NEW PILARÍN BAYES LIBRARY, VIC (Barcelona)
BCQ arquitectura barcelona
MORE THAN A LIBRARY. A friendly building is proposed, which unfolds around a new garden open to the city where the articulation of the volumes responds to the desire to create differentiated s...
Tainan Public Library
Mecanoo
Mecanoo and MAYU’s design for the Tainan Public Library represents the meeting of cultures, generations and histories. Inspired by the local culture and designed for the tropical climate of Tainan. It is home to...
