Contemporary is the term used for architecture of the 21st century. Unlike some other architectural periods, contemporary isn’t a movement, but a style reflecting the trends of the time a home ...

Mark Kaufman of GTM Architects in Bethesda, Maryland, said a contemporary library shouldn’t be overly ornate. “It doesn’t use heavy crown and wood profiles to create emphasis,” he said.

Crawshaw Architects has given a new twist to traditional library architecture with this re-invented out-building in Dorset, UK. Adjoining a Grade II-listed Georgian farmhouse and water mill, the new ...

Architecture; Library architecture and design: a worldwide guide. Modern library architecture and design is an evolving craft as technology changes the dynamics of space, yet we will always crave the ...

Brooklyn Public Library has unveiled designs for a dramatically reimagined modern library in New Lots that nods to the site’s history as an African burial ground, set to replace the currently standing ...

While the New York Public Library is reconsidering their architecture through a luminous, yet radical, Norman Foster proposal that would modernize the Schwarzman Building and reconfigure its ...

That of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, as Selldorf Architects understood it, was to exhibit California’s art in a Californian way—i.e., relaxed, without pretense or formality, and ...

The first book-length look at modern architecture on the Princeton University campus has been produced by a local author. "Princeton Modern: Highlights of Campus Architecture from the 1960s to the ...

The Berkeley Library in Trinity College Dublin is one of those rarities of modern architecture – a brutalist, concrete mass with an above ground bunker feel to it, but one that was hailed from ...

The American Institute of Architects in 2012 listed Columbus sixth in its ranking of most architecturally important cities in the U.S. – behind Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco and ...