The giant spiral staircase lacks a standard central pillar, which opened up more space in the design. On one landing, there’s a hidden library, and on another, a place to draw.

Steven Holl’s Hunters Point Library is just the latest of many buildings to embrace a staircase as a central architectural showpiece — and inadvertently create a barrier to disabled visitors.

The American Library in Paris will celebrate its 100th anniversary next year. What is now a calm oasis of learning had its origins in the chaos of war, a fact underlined by a bust which sits among ...

American soldiers in Paris just after the armistice of World War I. The American Library in Paris was a continuation of the work of the Library War Service, which ALA created in 1917 to supply reading ...

PARIS — Charles Trueheart, the director of the American Library in Paris, picked through the shelves in his office and withdrew a surprisingly well-preserved June 1922 edition of the long-gone ...

An American Library in Paris Founded after World War I, the City of Light’s English-language library has long been a haven for expats, including Hemingway Susan Spano March 25, 2012 ...