American Libraries recognizes 15 libraries in the 2025 Library Design Showcase

CHICAGO - Fifteen new and renovated libraries  feature in American Libraries’ 2025 Library Design Showcase. The showcase appears in the magazine’s September/October issue, available online today.

The 37th annual showcase highlights innovative constructions and remodels across the US and Canada that address patrons’ evolving needs. This year’s selections were completed between May 1, 2024, and April 30, 2025.

The public, university, and high school libraries represent a range of geographies, styles, and budgets, from $200 to multimillion-dollar ventures. Many also represent feats in sustainability, including creative reuse of buildings, including a former post office and a pizza parlor.

This year’s featured projects are:

Chabot College Library and Learning Connection in Hayward, California

Group 4 Architecture; HMC Architects

Cincinnati and Hamilton County (Ohio) Public Library, Downtown Main Library

Champlin | EOP; Group 4 Architecture

Denver Public Library, Central Library

studiotrope

Deschutes Public Library, Redmond (Ore.) Library

The Miller Hull Partnership; Steele Architects

Fulton County (Ga.) Library System, Martin Luther King Jr. Library

McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture

Houston Public Library, Shannon Walker Neighborhood Library

BRAVE/architecture

Labriola National American Indian Data Center at Arizona State University in Tempe

Ayers Saint Gross

Lake Travis Community Library West in Spicewood, Texas

Ascension Architecture

McCallum High School in Austin, Texas

Jain Orr (coordinator) and community

Mearns Centre–McPherson Library, University of Victoria (B.C.) Libraries

Jensen Chernoff Thompson Architects

Nashville (Tenn.) Public Library, Donelson branch

HASTINGS Architecture
Oceanside (N.Y.) Library
H2M architects + engineers; MDA designgroup architects & planners

Samuel Freudenthal Memorial Library at Trinidad (Colo.) State College

studiotrope

San Diego Public Library, Pacific Highlands Ranch Library

HGW Architecture

St. Louis County (Mo.) Library, Clark Family branch

Lamar Johnson Collaborative

For more information about the Library Design Showcase or to view past selections, visit bit.ly/Design-Showcase
American Libraries is the flagship magazine of the American Library Association. For more information, please visit americanlibrariesmagazine.org.

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