Library Buildings around the World

the City Commission for approval in mid-August. Jane Huesemann, a principal with Gould Evens, told the Lawrence Journal that
‘the current plans call for the garage to be 10ft taller than the new building’. If city commissioners decide to add another level to the
garage, resistance to the current design may grow. Sharon McHugh, US Correspondent (http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com)
Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday saw the latest designs for a $19 million expansion of the Lawrence Public Library and put
the project on track to begin construction by mid-November.
“We really wanted to make this a signature public building,” said City Commissioner Aron Cromwell. “All the elements really have
come to play here. It will have a public-square feeling to it.”
The design for the library, though, looks different than when it was unveiled by library leaders last year. The building still uses large
amounts of terra-cotta stone, but the new design uses more glass at the corners of the building and along Vermont Street.
“I think it is a design that is very open,” said Sean Zaudke, an architect with Lawrence-based Gould Evans. “We want a design that
explains how the library can support the community.”
The main way it does so is by letting the community see into the library. The new design put a particular emphasis on making the
youth and teen rooms of the library on public display by making them visible from Vermont Street.
The inside of the building also will include fewer walls and more wide-open spaces, Zaudke said. Several reading rooms will be on
the perimeter of the building, with larger, more bustling rooms near the building’s main entrance at the southeast corner of the
building. Smaller, individual reading rooms will be on the west and north sides of the building.
City commissioners also got their most detailed look yet at the parking garage design. Plans still call for a perforated metal skin to
cover most of the garage, although glass towers to house stairways and an elevator also will be used.
“We really want to make the interior environment of the garage as open and light-filled and ventilated as possible,” Zaudke said.
The parking garage will be the first part of the project under construction. Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously agreed to seek
bids for 18 different bid packages, ranging from concrete to steel work, for the garage. Bids are expected to be approved by Nov. 6,
and work would begin by Nov. 15.
Architects hope construction of the garage will be completed by June. Work on the library itself isn’t expected to begin until
February. April 2014 is the tentative completion date for the project.
Commissioners on Tuesday left their options open regarding how large the parking garage will be. The new garage will include at
least 250 spaces — up from the 125 spaces currently provided in the library’s surface parking lot. Commissioners also are
considering adding an additional level that would provide another 72 parking spaces but are still considering ways to pay for the
project. The bids for the parking garage will include amounts both with and without the extra level.
In other news, commissioners:
l Balked at the idea of allowing $695,000 in land acquisition costs to be reimbursed through a tax increment financing district for a
proposed hotel development at Ninth and New Hampshire streets.
The development group, led by Lawrence businessmen Doug Compton and Mike Treanor, had sought to have the costs to purchase
the land added to the list of items eligible for reimbursement through the TIF district.
But commissioners said it was too late in the process to bring up the request. A representative of the development group said the
hotel project will continue on without the reimbursement.
(http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2012/oct/02/library-project-moves-forward)
James E.Rogers College of Law, Daniel F. Cracchiola Law Library, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ –
USA 2008
Maryvale Library / Paolo Verde Community Center, Phoenix, CA – USA 2006
Awards:
AIA Honor Award 2007
Cedar City Library, Cedar City, Utah – USA 2003
The Cedar City Public Library has won three awards since it moved to its new building in September 2003.
"We have received a number of awards," said Steve Decker, the library's director.
"American Institute of Architects awarded us with the Merit Award. AIA and the Utah Masonry Council presented us with the Best
of Show Award."
He said the libary was just notified a couple of days ago that it received the Intermountain Contractor magazine's Silver Award.
Decker said he thinks the library has received so many awards because of Gould Evans Associates, the architectural firm that built
it, and the large amount of community participation.
"I think we have been receiving these awards because we chose a firm with library experience," Decker said. "We also had
community input. We held meetings where the community could come and tell us what they liked and didn't like. We didn't
incorporate the negative things. We also had a good working relationship between the builder, architect and the owner."
Rob Beishline, associate architect for Gould Evans, said the library board was wonderful to work with.
The groundbreaking took place in September 2002 and was completed a year and a day later in September 2003.
Beishline said the new library was built to have a connection with the Main Street Park.
"We wanted a strong relationship with the park," he said. "We wanted readers to be able to see out into the park and to feel like
they were out there while they were reading. That is why we used a lot of glass on the south side of the building."
Beishline said they focused on using natural materials.
"We wanted to use natural materials like red sandstone, reclaimed timbers and wood columns," he said. "The trestles are from the
Great Salt Lake from the bridge stockpile. We bought some of them because we felt they had character in them and the stone.
"(The library) has a nice sense of proportion, and it feels comfortable," Beishline added. "We were careful to address the details,
like the way the signs are bolted to walls and the way the light fixtures hang."
(http://www.suunews.com/news/2004/oct/31/public-library-receives-awards)
Truman Presidential Library / Museum – Indipendence, MO – USA 2002
Michael Graves & Associates, Princeton. New York – USA
http://www.michaelgraves.com
Libraries:
Kavali Institute. University of California, Santa Barbara, CA – USA 1994 – 2004
The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics is located at the eastern gateway to the UCSB campus, where its two splayed wings are
oriented to the engineering complex on one side and to Lagoon Road overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the other. A cylindrical
pavilion containing the library anchors one end of the building. A second-phase expansion filled in a former courtyard between the
wings and created a bar-shaped addition with offices, meeting rooms and a small auditorium oriented to a gathering space at the
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