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.
Scott Marble has been selected for the William Lyon Somerville Visiting Lectureship position at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS). He will conduct a workshop and give a public lecture at the Downtown Campus on January 8.
From the EVDS website:
Design Matters is a thought provoking lecture series, organized by the Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS), that brings to Calgary a range of important speakers who will explore design in our contemporary culture. Lectures are delivered from September to April, and feature provocative speakers who examine issues in architecture, urban design, product design, and landscape ecology. The series challenges the University community and the public to broaden their thinking on a myriad of issues related to design. Design Matters is also an opportunity to engage with interested citizens, students, public officials, urban planners, designers, architects and many others. Design Matters engages people who want to learn, understand and address design issues affecting our community.
Design Matters with Scott Marble will weave together his recent work around the theme of workflows as a practitioner, writer and teacher. It will include a presentation of projects by Marble Fairbanks, excerpts from his new book and a synopsis of his research project at Columbia University, the Columbia Building Intelligence Project.
Full details here.
The renovation of Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center is now complete. The project, part of NYC Department of Design + Construction’s Design Excellence program, included work on performing arts rooms, classrooms, music rooms and a new cafe.
Join us for the launch of We Build the City, a new publication from ORO Editions featuring projects developed under New York City’s Design + Construction Excellence Program. The book centers around the work of 45 firms and includes Marble Fairbanks’ projects at Glen Oaks Branch Library and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
More information about the book here.
Marble Fairbanks is pleased to announce that Glen Oaks Library has achieved LEED Gold.
Glen Oaks Library is now the 6th busiest library in the Queens Library network, jumping up from 26th busiest within the first few weeks of its opening in May. Read more about the grand opening here.