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(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 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.
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 ...
Calgary's new downtown library will not be physically connected to City Hall. Designers had floated the idea of connecting the site, just east of City Hall, to the building using a Plus 15 ...
The current Central Library is located in the heart of downtown while the new building will be built in Calgary’s East Village. The multi-faceted facility will have more than half a million ...
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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...