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Calgary cops have thrown the book at alleged members of a drug trafficking ring, accused of plying their trade outside the main downtown library branch and other public spots in the core.
(Scott Dippel/CBC) Preparations are now well underway for the opening of Calgary's new downtown library — even if opening day is a year and a half away. Construction continues on the $245 ...
Calgary's Central Library includes a sweeping archway to ... Rising four storeys high and taking up an entire city block in Calgary's downtown East Village, it loomed over me against the skyline.
A new library has been added to the growing list of architectural hits in downtown Calgary, Canada. A new library has been added to the growing list of architectural hits in downtown Calgary ...
The “East Village” side of downtown is thriving again, buoyed by Calgary’s Central Library, an architectural masterpiece that opened in late 2018 and continues to draw people of all ages.
For months now, no matter what time of day Sarah Meilleur leaves her job at Calgary’s downtown library, she sees something unusual in the city’s core. “It’s amazing. It’s not just ...
Planned for a vibrant intersection between Downtown Calgary and the East Village, the new library aims to fulfill the city’s vision for a “technologically advanced public space for innovation ...
This is the New Central Library (NCL) in downtown Calgary. It is remarkable how, all around the world, libraries have become the main focus of civic activity. While they were always places that ...
for people to sit and for library programs to spill outside. Plantings that reference the native landscape draw Calgary’s mountains and prairies into the cityscape, and line the plaza’s ...
120,000-square-foot collaboration between Canadian and Danish architects that played a key part in reinvigorating the city’s downtown. Calgary’s under-construction Central Library will be ...