Snøhetta's socially cohesive Beijing Library design wins Public Library of the Year Award
Snøhetta’s 2023 design for the Beijing Library has won the IFLA/Baker & Taylor Public Library of the Year Award for 2024. The over 800,000-square-foot branch of the Capital Library of China is located in Tongzhou and features the world’s largest climatized reading space. A bold answer to many critics’ views that the typology has been pushed increasingly out of relevance in the digital age, Snøhetta’s design captures the spirit of the IFLA's mission of promoting "open and functional architecture" augmented with a creative implementation of technology and without regard to politics or geographic location.Read the full post on Bustler
Snøhetta’s 2023 design for the Beijing Library has won the IFLA/Baker & Taylor Public Library of the Year Award for 2024.
The over 800,000-square-foot branch of the Capital Library of China is located in Tongzhou and features the world’s largest climatized reading space. A bold answer to many critics’ views that the typology has been pushed increasingly out of relevance in the digital age, Snøhetta’s design captures the spirit of the IFLA's mission of promoting "open and functional architecture" augmented with a creative implementation of technology and without regard to politics or geographic location.
