Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Books at the Calgary Central Library on Friday, Sept. 5, 2025. Calgarians read a lot of books last year. The Calgary Public ...

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 ...

Easter is almost here in Calgary, and that means a long weekend. Before you go make plans, you might want to see what’s open and closed.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dignitaries break ground on the new Belmont Fieldhouse and Library in southwest Calgary on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. The City of ...

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 ...

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 different ...

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, ...

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