AIA/ALA’s 2019 Library Building Awards Includes 2 Higher Education Projects #HigherEd #University#Architect #Design #Libraries #CampusPlanning #University #Architect #ilmaBlog
Posted: April 5, 2019 Filed under: Architecture, Campus Planning & Design, Design, Higher Education - Architecture & Design | Tags: Architecture, Awards, Campus Architect, Campus planning, College, Design, Library, Library of the Future, University Leave a commentEvery year, the AIA is proud to partner with the American Library Association / Library Leadership and Management Association to honor the best in library architecture and design.
The AIA/ALA Library Building Award is the only award that recognizes entire library structures and all aspects of their design.
This year’s award includes two college/university libraries:
Barnard College – The Milstein Center
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)
Owner: Barnard College
Location: New York
Colorado College Tutt Library Expansion and Transformation
Architect: Pfeiffer
Owner: Colorado College
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Click here to see all the award winners.
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Mansueto Library by JAHN
Posted: July 10, 2018 Filed under: Architecture, Higher Education - Architecture & Design, More FC3, Science & Technology, University | Tags: Architect, Architecture, Chicago, College, conservation, Design, Designer, digitization, Education, Grand Reading Room, Helmut Jahn, Inspiration, Library, Library of the Future, School, state-of-the-art, Sustainability, Technology, University, USA Leave a commentJAHN is an international architectural firm with over 75 years of experience that has achieved critical recognition and won numerous awards. JAHN’s ability to integrate design creativity and corporate professionalism makes it a leading firm in global design Innovation.
The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library opened at the heart of the University of Chicago campus in 2011. It features a soaring elliptical glass dome capping a 180-seat Grand Reading Room, state-of-the-art conservation and digitization laboratories, and an underground high-density automated storage and retrieval system. The Mansueto Library speeds scholarly productivity by allowing for the retrieval of materials within an average time of 3 minutes through use of robotic cranes. Designed by renowned architect Helmut Jahn, the Mansueto Library has been recognized with a Distinguished Building Citation of Merit by the American Institute of Architects’ Chicago chapter and a Patron of the Year Award by the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
Location: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Architect: JAHN
Lead Designer: Helmut Jahn
Area: 58,700 SF
Project Year: 2011
The site in the center of theUniversity of Chicago’s Campus is surrounded by a variety of different buildings. With a mixture of styles, ranging from the gothic quadrangle to the south, the Limestone Brutalism of Netsch’s Regenstein Library to the east, the Henry Moore monument and Legorreta’s colorful Student Housing to the north and a building to the west, which will be replaced by a new Science Building. There is not much to relate to.
The problem was to store 3.5 million books with an Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS). The expectations in the brief suggested to house those in a well-designed “Box” above grade. In an effort to infringe as little as possible with the open space, make the Reading Room and the Preservation Department the most pleasant space to be in and in line with our approach to challenge habitual conventions, we opted to put the books below grade, where their environment can be better controlled to achieve the desired constant temperature and humidity of 60 degrees, 30% RH – at less cost. The people-oriented spaces could thus be located at grade in a minimal elliptical glass dome, which fits the context, because it defies conventional relationships.
Murphy Jahn think it has been embraced by the leadership of the University, because it represents the mission of theUniversity of Chicago as catalyst for the advancement of knowledge. It is interesting that this happened at an Institution where the disciplines of Architecture and Engineering are not taught, but a spirit prevails to go beyond where others stop. Science, Physics, the liberal and applied Art start, when others think they are complete.
Once a consensus on the design was reached, the normal process started to solve the problem: comfort and sustainability, light-control, structure, life-safety, operation and maintenance.
The structural grid-shell of 120 x 240 feet and the insulated glazing represent a very minimal and intelligent system for mediating between the varying exterior conditions and the desired interior comfort.
At the interior there is a seamless integration between lighting, air supply and furnishings, which were fabricated in solid European White Oak.
More than anybody the users will benefit from an environment that is pleasant and conductive to study and research. This is not your classical Library, but points to the library of the future.
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Library of Birmingham by Mecanoo Architects
Posted: November 10, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch | Tags: archdaily, Architect, Architecture, Contemporary, Current, Design, Europe, Library, Library of Birmingham, Mecanoo, Skin, UK 3 CommentsIf you like this post please share it.
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The Library of Birmingham (located in the UK) will comprise of 10 levels, with nine above ground and a lower ground floor. It is being constructed using 21,000m³ of concrete in the frame, enough to fill more than eight Olympic sized swimming pools. The frame is reinforced by 3,000 tonnes of steel reinforcement, the equivalent weight of around 35,750 average UK men. 30,000m³ of material, enough to fill 60,000 bath tubs, had to be dug out of the basement. The building will feature a spacious entrance and foyer with mezzanine, the gateway to both the Library and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, to which the new Library will be physically connected. There will also be a new flexible studio theatre, a lower ground level with indoor terraces, four further public levels and two outdoor elevated garden terraces. A ‘golden box’ of secure archive storage will occupy two levels of the building, within which the city’s internationally significant collection of archives, photography and rare books will be stored. A new state-of-the-art exhibition space will open up public access to the collections for the first time. The exterior of the building, from the first to the eighth floor will be wrapped with an intricate metal façade, echoing the tunnels, canals and viaducts which fuelled Birmingham’s industrial growth. Besides the Shakespeare Memorial Room and the new shared studio theatre with neighbouring Repertory Theatre, Birmingham’s 35,000m² new library will comprise a study centre, music library, community health centre, multimedia, archives, offices, exhibition halls and cafes. For the rest of the article click here. Text provided by Mecanoo Architecten.
3 Museums and 2 Libraries
Posted: October 9, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch | Tags: Architects, Axis Mundi, Eisenman, Francisco Mangado, Hadid, Kahn, Library, Museums 1 CommentArchaeology Museum of Álava
Architect Francisco “Patxi” Mangado
Riverside Museum
Zaha Hadid Architects
City of Culture of Galicia Archive and Library
Architect Eisenman Architects
The Whitney That Could Have Been
Architect Axis Mundi
Exeter Library by Louis Kahn
Architect Louis Kahn
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Lego Night
Posted: November 14, 2010 Filed under: More FC3 | Tags: AIA, ALNNJ, Architects, Children, Community, Competition, Jury, Lego, Lego Night, Library, Service Leave a commentThe Jury of the Lego Competition at the Free Public Library of Hasbrouck Heights in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ,
included leaders of the Architects League of Northern NJ as well as the Honorable Mayor Rose Heck (Center).
I have many photographs of the contestants which I hope to post in the near future.
From L to R: Frank Cunha III, AIA, Past President of the ALNNJ; Mimi Hui, Director of the Library; Marie Joyce, Children’s Librarian;
Honorable Mayor Rose Heck; Joyce Raspa, AIA, Current President of ALNNJ; Steven Lazarus, AIA & Donna Berardo, AIA of the ALNNJ.