Awards and Mentions

Library Services and Programs

• Minister's Awards for Municipal and Public Library Excellence: Plan My Vote App (Shortlisted)
• Minister's Awards for Municipal and Public Library Excellence: City of Calgary: “Level Up, Calgary Minecraft Challenge”

Architecture and Design

• 2019 Calgary Awards: The Award for Accessibility
• Mayor's Urban Design Awards: The Mawson Urban Design Award
• Azure Magazine: Best Canadian Architecture of the Decade
• Popular Mechanics: 20 of the World's Most Stunning Libraries
• American Institute of Architects: Architecture Honour Award
• Consulting Engineers of Alberta 2020 Showcase Awards: Award of Excellence in Building Engineering – Institutional 

Facility

• Time Magazine: 100 Greatest Places of 2019
• New York Times: 52 Places to Go in 2019
• New York Times: In a Year of Abrupt Transitions, a trip to Tahiti. And Calgary.
• New York Times: Two Canadian Stops on our 52 Places to Go List

Media Coverage

• Arch Daily: Calgary Central Library / Snøhetta
• New York Times: Where Libraries are the Tourist Attractions
• Library Journal: Calgary Rises

Snøhetta

• Fast Company: Most Innovative Company (Winner in part due to Central Library project)
• Fast Company: Why Snøhetta's amazing new library might remind you of an Apple Store
• Fast Company: This is the Apple Store of libraries
• American Institute of Architects: Snøhetta and Dialog, 2020 recipient of the Architecture Award

Entuitive Consulting Engineers

• Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards — Winner: Award of Excellence
• Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards — Winner: Engineering a Better Canada 

Canadian Municipal Land Corporation

• American Institute of Architects: 2019 AIA/ALA Library Building Award - The Central Library
• 2019 SEGD Global Design Awards, Merit Award for Wayfinding - The Central Library
• Mayor's Urban Design Awards, Great City Great Design - New Central Library

Entro

• Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum for wayfinding and signage design for the Central Library

Photos by Michael Grimm.