Gothenburg University's library, Gothenburg, Sweden
Plans for a new library at Gothenburg University have been revealed after a search by the Swedish consulting firm Akademiska Hus to add what is now the newest chapter in the long architectural history of the nation's second-largest city. Danish firm Cobe won the commission with a fitting design meant to mimic the curvature of a book's pages in an imposing 16,000 square meter space adjacent to Gothenburg's most important cultural institutions.