Taichung’s Green Museumbrary: putting civic spaces under one striking roof (opens in new tab)

You may not be familiar with the term “LAM convergence”, but it is a significant trend in civic architecture and urban planning. From the under-construction Barack Obama Presidential Centre, in Chicago, in the United States, to The Library at the Dock in Melbourne, Australia, and the Oodi Central Library and Amos Rex in Helsinki, Finland, the meshing of libraries, archives and museums (LAM) is gathering momentum, driven by the breaking down of barriers between mediums in the digital age,...