Marble Fairbanks with James Lima Planning + Development and Special Project Office has been selected as one of five teams to participate in Re-Envisioning Branch Libraries.
The Study, sponsored by The Architectural League of New York in conjunction with Center for an Urban Future, “will identify the challenges that branch libraries face and propose design solutions to stimulate conversation about means to support New York’s three library systems and the vital services they provide.”
Scott Marble will be participating in the upcoming Working Models Forum, a 3-day event of panel discussions, presentations, a prototyping charette, and an exhibition.
Hosted by FARMM, the Facility for Architectural Research in Media and Mediation research hub at McGill University School of Architecture, the forum will address architectural discourse’s shift from formal to informational concerns, and the computational technologies that enable us to “collectively consider the limiting and enabling impacts of technics on our ability to judge, invent, and act together.”
Learn more and register for this free event here.
Following Glen Oaks Library’s recent honor as American-Architects’ Building of the Year, the project has now been awarded a Special Mention for the Library Typology category of the 2014 Architizer A+ Awards! To view the full entry, visit our project page on Architizer here.
Glen Oaks Library was also recently featured on ArchDaily. See the full article and image set here.
The votes are in—Glen Oaks Library is American-Architects.com‘s Building of the Year 2013! Glen Oaks Library received about a fifth of the thousands of votes to be the Public Choice, in addition to being the Editor’s Choice.
American-Architects.com Editor John Hill writes,
“we commend the project for the way it creates a civic amenity for the Glen Oaks neighborhood on the eastern edge of Queens, far from the epicenter of Manhattan, where projects with such thoughtful design and smart choice of materials would normally be found.”
Read the full announcement here.
Glen Oaks Library was also recently recognized by the Queens Chamber of Commerce for Excellence in Design.
It’s time to choose the Building of the Year 2013, and Glen Oaks Library has been nominated by American-Architects.com!
American-Architects.com presented fifty projects—one from each state—as Building of the Week in 2013, and selected Glen Oaks Library to represent the state of New York. Now we are competing for Building of the Year. Polls close January 31st, so get your votes in now! Cast your vote here.