In 1999, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Seattle native Joshua Prince-Ramus were selected to design Seattle’s Central Library. The pair envisioned a pile of floating boxes, hovering at different ...

Calgary’s new Central Library has just opened its doors to the public — and it’s a thing of elegant, energy-efficient beauty. International architecture firm Snøhetta teamed up with North ...

Craig Dykers, a founding partner of Snøhetta, jokes that his firm and the Canadian practice Dialog won the competition for the New Central Library (NCL) in Calgary, Alberta, by “cheating.” Well, not ...

When it opened in 2018, the Calgary Central Library in Alberta, Canada, already was being celebrated for its beauty and its brains. Variously described as resembling an open book, snowflakes, ...

The new Calgary Central Library opened its doors to the public on November 1, a joint project between Snøhetta and Canadian studio DIALOG. The crystallized, aluminum-and-fritted-glass facade of the ...

Craig Dykers, a founding partner of Snøhetta, likes to joke that his architecture firm and the Canadian practice DIALOG won the 2013 competition for the new $183 million Central Library in Calgary, ...