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Library Sant Gervasi - Joan Maragall opens on 19 June 2014. Located in the gardens of the Villa Florida, at the confluence of streets and Sant Gervasi de Casseroles Bishop Sivilla, a new cultural and proximity. It becomes the central library of the District of Sarria - Sant Gervasi and serves its people with the Library and the Library Clara Collserola - Josep Miracle.
The building, new construction, designed by architects BCQ Casamor Baena, SLP has a surface area of ​​2,396 m² spread over two floors and stairwells, a construction protruding from the roof.
On the ground floor reception area, a playground and consultation points online.
In the basement there is an area reserved for adults, a multipurpose hall for cultural events, a multimedia area for training and digital literacy and technical services.
The library is semi-underground in the garden of the Villa Florida and its structure is the result in part of the original with respect to existing trees. In fact, the roof garden is at the same level as the old garden of the Villa Florida and assumed recovery in its maximum dimension.
Access to the library is the street Sant Gervasi de Casseroles, one of the oldest and important roads of the old town of Sant Gervasi. Outside, the "patio" surrounded by glass illuminate the interior and suggest activities. Inside, the "patios knowledge" rooms full of books, part of the structure that supports the library. Some of the interior walls, coated ceramic block light, is an allegory to the building in the ground. All this forms an articulated inner landscape changing, with each use and each user find their place.
Library Sant Gervasi - Joan Maragall is the third largest public library of the city that includes the service and the first to incorporate autopréstec service return documents with automated classification. These services allow users to reduce waiting times for these operations and enhance their autonomy in the use of libraries.

Also has the first mobile space Multimedia Library Barcelona. Furniture, computer equipment and access to the network respond to the concept of mobility, with the aim of organizing different training models with laptops, tablets and smartphones.

It is named after the writer Joan Maragall (Barcelona, ​​1860-1911), poet and writer Catalan, a key figure in the modernist poetry and one of the most influential figures in Catalonia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century

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