Library Buildings around the World

solutions to meet the challenges of the project's location, environment and budget while achieving quality." -Carole Arnold,
Director, Dolores Public Library District
Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock CO – USA 2003
The adaptive reuse of a former grocery store as a public library offered as many opportunities as challenges. Now an anchor of
Castle Rock's central business district, the design took advantage of wide open structural bays and incorporated large store front
windows to recall the building's retail past. A community center piece the building is a testament to the collaborative and creative
process that make architecture our passion. (Humphries)
Highlands Ranch Library, Highlands Ranch CO – USA 2000
Planned as a keystone of the Highlands Ranch Civic Center, a dramatically vaulted two-story building organization is characterized
by encompassing sight lines, navigational ease and engaging spaces. The use of stone and material coloration characteristic to local
vernacular buildings helps the library relate to its surroundings and speaks to the energy and aspirations of this community's
optimistic future. ( Humphries)
HuntonBrady Architects, Orlando, FL – USA
http://www.huntonbrady.com
Libraries:
University of Central Florida, College of Medicine, Orlando FL - USA 2010
173.400 sqf., $ 53.335.000
This four-story, 171,000 square foot building will serve as the "ceremonial front door" for the new UCF College of Medicine campus
located on 50-acres in Lake Nona, Florida. The building houses all medical school functions, including the medical library, lecture
halls, classrooms, teaching laboratories, state-of-the-art simulation learning laboratories and a clinical skills center rivaling those of
major medical schools throughout the country. Specifically, the Teaching Laboratories will focus on the biological sciences, including
biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics and cell biology; the Clinical Skills Center will provide a simulated clinical setting for
students to learn and practice essential skills such as conducting physical exams; and the Simulation Learning Resource Center will
be equipped with training simulators and medical mannequins to simulate a variety of settings, such as an operating room,
emergency room and delivery room. Additional spaces include faculty and administrative offices, kitchen and adjacent dining areas,
public gathering spaces, media production room, and a student lounge and workout room. (HuntonBrady)
Ikon.5 architects, Princeton, NJ – USA
http://www.ikon5architects.com
Libraries:
Medgar Evers College Library, City University of New York, Brooklyn NY – USA 2013
Immersion Zone | Cyber Cafe | Reference Information Commons | Archives | Media Services | Information Literacy | Reading and
Collections | 40,000 square feet
The renovation and addition to the Medgar Evers College Library for the City University of New York is a transformation of an
existing early 1980's traditional library into a contemporary information media commons. The program study includes maintaining
traditional reading and collection areas as well as introducing new library services for the demanding student population such as:
information immersion zone, media services and information literacy center. In addition to the addition of new program spaces, the
study evaluated the architectural and infrastructure services and proposed options for upgrade that are consistent with the program.
(Ikon.5)
Kirkwood Public Library, New Castle County, New Castle DE – USA 2009
22.500 sqf., Community Meeting Room, Children´s Library, Young Adlts, Information Technology Center, EMS Station
Set along a commercial shopping strip highway, Kirkwood Public Library is designed as roadside billboard announcing the public
civic function of reading, learning and exploration within. The objective was to create a new branch library for a growing diverse
community that would serve as the iconic community center of the neighborhood. Shopping malls and fast food restaurants flank
both sides of the site. Large commercial signs are stacked along the highway where this library is sited and a small scale residential
neighborhood is set one block in from the highway site. It is within this context, that the library appears as a collection of books set
on the highway. Facing the highway, the building facade, of stacked horizontal cement board siding, is fashioned as a series of boxes
that represent the edge od books piled up on their side. (Ikon)
Hockessin Public Library, New Castle County, New Castle DE - USA 2008
Renovation and expansion of existing building / community meeting room / children´s pavillon – 23.000 sqft.
The expansion at Hockessin Public Library is a pair of pavillons in the landscape. The expansion embraces the landscape and
captures scenic views to the park is reinforced by a floating cantilevered glass pavilion which houses the children´s collection and
allows a flood plain to pass beneath. The simplicity of the design promotes a very clear internal organization while making clean
connections to the existing library structure. (Ikon)
Cafe Diem at Sprague Library, Montclair State University, Montclair NJ – USA 2007
Seating for 70 | Fully Wired & Wireless Environment | Interactive Library / Cafe Workspace | 4,600 square feet
A new face and front door to the Sprague Library is created in a sleekly modern, transparent cafe to the quad and the campus. A
glass curtain blurs the distinction between inside and out. The cafe and cafe terrace cascades down broad and generous steps to the
campus green. The interior tone is set by the richness of stone and wood floor, the playfulness of a back-lit LED wall and the smooth
simplicity of a clean ceiling plane. (Ikon.5)
Brandywine Hundred Public Library, New Castle County NY – USA 2003
Popular Collections | Community Meeting Rooms | Community Technology Center | Cafè | 40,000 square feet
Inspired by the landscape and history of the Brandywine Valley, this new library is a 21st century meeting house for the community
of New Castle County. The library's forms and materials are inspired by Andrew Wyeths' pictorial paintings of the Brandywine.
Like many buildings depicted in his paintings, this library is designed as a simple stone structure highlighted by the passage of the
sun. (Ikon.5)
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