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Project • By RICHÄRD | KENNEDY ARCHITECTS • Libraries
Arabian Public Library
The unique program of this public library is based on contemporary bookstore concepts and includes a popular library with a 120,000-volume collection, as well as a coffee bar and bookstore elements. The program also includes a children’s program room, two multipurpose rooms, computer training center, and a dedicated teen area.
Bill Timmerman
Bill Timmerman
The building is a remembrance of the desert slot canyons of northern Arizona and Monument Valley, capturing the powerful and unique experience between the compressive stone walls and the ultimate release to the sky above. Ever-patient threads of water, sculpting and polishing the massive walls, cut these natural sandstone canyons over millennia. Harder stone and slow wate... More
Project • By ikon.5 architects • Libraries
Charleston Branch | New York Public Library
The Charleston Branch of the New York Public Library, located in an underserved community in Staten Island, stands as a pioneering civic institution. Designed by ikon.5 architects, this 10,000-square-foot facility is not merely a repository for books and digital information, but a vibrant community gathering space, setting a new standard as the first Net-Zero Energy library in New York City.
Jeffrey Totaro
Contextual design and urban integration
Addressing its suburban context—bordered by parking lots and Fairview Park, a recreational landscape—the library skillfully mediates between these two conditions. It creates a welcoming community plaza and entry portal off the parking area, forming an "urban room" that bri... More
Project • By Newfloor S.r.l • Libraries
OLATHE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Olathe Public Library was founded in the city of Olathe, Kansas, United States, in 1883 by a group of three local women who founded the first women’s club called “Ladies Reading Circle”.
In 1999, the year in which The Library celebrates its 90th anniversary, the expansion of the new Olathe Indian Creek branch begins. The project of the raised access floor of the new Library was committed to Newfloor.
For this project, we produced and supplied over 800 square meters of raised access floor in collaboration with our national ceramic tiles supplier’s Caesar.
Key requirement for the project was the guarantee of resistance to the maximum loads with an admissible breaking load ≥ 1200 kg in the center of the side of th... More
Project • By TEN Arquitectos • Libraries
New York Public Library
In a neighborhood dense with high-end retail, luxury residences, and blue-chip institutions and offices, this 30,000 square foot branch library will fulfill a much-needed role as a public space and a touchstone for the local community and visiting tourists. Despite the library’s site being predominantly below grade and set at the base of a new 40-story hotel, TEN Arquitectos’ design transforms the dark, subterranean space into an inviting, open and light-filled civic landscape in the heart of Manhattan.
Michael Moran
The architects did not put forth the branch library’s identity via an iconic facade symbolizing the New York Public Library as an institution. Instead, the facade disappears completely to reveal a dynami... More