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uilding team awards 2016 GOLD AWARD Vertical fins provide essential shading for the pebble-shaped library, which is wrapped in glass curtain wall to maximize views and natural light. JON MILLER, HEDRICH BLESSING chinatown library UNITES AND SERVES TWO EMERGING CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS One of Chicago’s most signifi - cant architectural additions in 2015 was not a booming high-rise at the center of the Loop or a grand new park along the lakefront. It was a small, pebble-shaped, glass-and-steel library that serves as the new beating heart of two neighborhoods on the city’s South Side. The 16,000-sf Chinatown Branch Library is strategically placed at the nexus of Chicago’s historic southern and emerging northern Chinatown neighborhoods— the intersection of Archer Avenue and Wentworth Avenue—with the goal of uniting the communities and serving as a catalyst for the developing area. It provides much needed public spaces—indoor and out—for the neighborhoods, and makes a bold architectural statement in an area that is rich in tradition. The library’s ovate form makes the most of the prominent, yet oddly shaped site. It adheres to Feng Shui principles by matching the existing alignments of the ‘This is a beautiful jewel, built by utilizing tools and building systems readily available to the industry.’ —Bill Kline, BTA Awards Juror adjacent streets without creating aggressive corners, and is designed and sited to anticipate a future realignment of Wentworth Avenue that would encroach onto the site. To reinforce the concept of the library 34 MAY 2016 BUILDING DESIGN+CONSTRUCTION www.BDCnetwork.com
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