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 ...

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 ...

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 Calgary Central Library attracts a lot of people — but not all of them are there to check out a book. Earlier this year, police rounded up more than two dozen people accused of selling drugs right ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Calgary Public Library CEO Sarah Meilleur, left, and Calgary Public Library Foundation CEO Tracy Johnson were photographed with a ...

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 ...

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, ...

Dignitaries break ground on the new Belmont Fieldhouse and Library in southwest Calgary on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. The City of Calgary broke ground Wednesday morning on a new recreation centre and ...

“Needless to say, we’re delighted by the enthusiastic response,” said Janet Hutchinson, Board Chair, Calgary Public Library. “It validates the importance and relevance of libraries in creating vibrant ...