- Design for learning in Australia, Singapore, the Netherlands and Kosovo
- World Architecture News profiles entries for the World Interiors Awards Learning category, which reflect the importance of design for these multi-use spaces.
Lancaster University Library. Photo: Sheppard Robson
- Inspiring learning: the Luxembourg Learning Centre
- The Luxembourg Learning Centre is designed for everyone who wants to search and process scientific information in an outstanding and comfortable environment.
- A library under the stars
- Demco Interiors has completed the design and interior furnishing of the new build Space, Science and Study Centre at the Winston Churchill School, Woking.
- How a corridor became a learning street
- Great Ouse Primary Academy, Bedfordshire, not only features a centrally located Learning Resource Centre but an interactive ‘learning street’ extending from it.
- Co-creating sixth form study space
- Roundhay School Secondary Campus, Leeds, has the largest sixth form in the city with over 500 students. Demco Interiors has designed its modern study space.
- Designing academic space that matters
- KSS Architects have been doing some thinking about academic space on campus, and have shared a series of principles and diagrams they developed as a result.
- Lancaster University Library remodelled
- The remodelling of the university's main library, with 14,500 sq.m. of interior spaces, is complete, creating a learning facility fit for the 21st Century.
- Library design and the learning experience
- SCONUL Focus has published a collection of views on the importance and impact of library spaces in enhancing students’ learning experiences.
- Training rooms in libraries
- This new article on the IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment Section blog addresses the challenge of designing the perfect training room in the library.
- Bournemouth and Poole College campuses
- A project by FG Library & Learning for two campus sites at Bournemouth & Poole College shows how modern design can create flexible learning spaces.
- Hull library transformation now complete
- The £28m transformation of the University of Hull’s Brynmor Jones Library has now been completed, providing a welcoming learning space for students.
- Major upgrade for college library
- A modern styling transforms the learning environment for a sixth form college and university centre.
- Libraries without walls: when students become the core design consideration
- Hamilton Wilson, Education Specialist, Wilson Architects, shares his insights into trends in education architecture and how to design a 21st century library.
- A strategic vision for library and learning spaces
- Heriot-Watt University has developed a strategic vision for the Edinburgh Campus library that will meet the changing demands of its users.
- Learning Spaces database released
- Media University Stuttgart, Germany, has released the largest international database on learning space development.
- School libraries as hubs of learning
- The Guardian Teacher Network has published a feature on the design of school library spaces in the digital information age, where books and technology meet.
- Students are at the heart of a new library
- Stuart Hunt, writing in the current issue of Panlibus, describes how the new library in the John Henry Brookes Building moves around the student.
- The new learning commons: creating distinctive student-centric environments
- An award-winning building on Australia's Gold Coast is home to Griffith University Learning Commons, offering students a choice of formal and informal learning spaces.
- Next generation learning commons
- Workstations are giving way to mobile technology as the next generation learning commons responds to student preferences for collaborative working.
- Shaping the future of learning
- University libraries are shaping the future of learning and research, and academic library architecture is reflecting and predicting how we learn.