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 ...

Calgarians read a lot of books last year.

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 ...

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 ...

Calgary Public Library CEO Sarah Meilleur, left, and Calgary Public Library Foundation CEO Tracy Johnson were photographed with a display at the Central Library promoting the library’s new Fifth Book ...

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, ...

City libraries are an embodiment of the spirit of higher learning that governments are supposed to be all about, and nowhere is that more true than Calgary’s about-to-be-built Central Library. The ...

CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The union representing library workers in the City of Calgary has walked away from the bargaining table after the city offered a wage deal lower than that rejected ...

The Calgary Public Library is launching a $1-million fundraising campaign to put more books on its shelves. In the past five years, the average cost of a book in Canada has risen by 20 per cent, ...

The search is over: DIALOG and Snøhetta have been selected from a shortlist of four to design a new central library in the Canadian city of Calgary. Planned for a prime location adjacent to City Hall, ...