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the building has many windows on each side

Image 5 of 17 from gallery of Helensvale Branch Library and CCYC / Lahznimmo Architects + Complete Urban. Photograph by Brett Boardman

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an architectural rendering of the first floor plan and second floor plan

Northside Library by NBBJ, Libraries are in transition. Once a point of knowledge dissemination and quiet introspection, they are becoming places to meet, socialize, study, hang out and plugin. Historically, we have seen a library’s civic value shift from a place for things, now, to a place for people.

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an empty parking lot in front of a large building with many windows and red accents

After a devastating flood, a community needed to rebuild for the future. The new 95,000 square foot library was designed with transparency, multipurpose use and collaboration in mind. In June 2008 a destructive flood swept through Cedar Rapids. ...

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an aerial view of a large building in the city

Aside from students and researchers, libraries tend to largely be taken for granted as valuable spaces for all sorts of community-wide learning. In this spirit, the AIA and the American Library Association (ALA) established the Library Building Awards program to encourage an...

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an empty parking lot in front of a building with benches and plants on the sidewalk

Back in the Triangle area of North Carolina, I had the opportunity to again work with Little to photograph the modern Morrisville Community Library. The library is sited across from a flower-bedded traffic circle. On the opposite side, accessible to parking is the library entry. A sense of transparency was integrated throughout the design, allowing […]

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