These stunning photographs illustrate the world's greatest libraries built long before Kindles and iPads existed. The incredible images document spectacular literary institutions from around the globe ...

These images are some of the world's most beautiful libraries, captured by a photographer who travelled the globe to see the stunning architecture. Massimo Listri's 30-year pursuit of the word's most ...

Libraries hold a romanticised role in society, valued as rich sources of information and loved as avenues for entertainment and escapism. As Vincent Phan, the Melbourne-based founder and chief ...

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Built by monks at the height of the German region’s 18th-century wealth, these flamboyant and colorful libraries are more than meets the eye. Former Travel Editor It is one of the most dramatic about ...

Design writer Jacques Bosser and photographer Guillaume de Laubier have brought together a beautifully designed, breathtaking visual archive of more than twenty of the most magnificent libraries in ...

Awe-inspiring doesn’t begin to describe the threshold between the real world and the Alice in Wonderland proportions of the atrium at Baltimore’s George Peabody Library. For the second installment in ...

When was the last time you visited a library? The digital age has made sure that everything, including the world's most promising literature, is at the convenience of our fingertips today. But still, ...

Architecture critic Jonathan Glancey writes in praise of the world’s great storehouses of knowledge – from the vaulted frescoes of Spain’s Escorial to the timber enigma of China’s National Library.

There are few things I love more than books and traveling, and any opportunity I have to combine the two is a like a literary dream come true. That's why I've started to create a bucket list of the ...