Glen Oaks Branch Library was recently featured in “Branching Out,” by Richard Staub in AIA New York’s Fall 2014 issue of Oculus.
by Spenser Krut
Glen Oaks Branch Library was recently featured in “Branching Out,” by Richard Staub in AIA New York’s Fall 2014 issue of Oculus.
Karen and Glen Oaks were featured in the Spring 2014 Issue of Barnard Magazine in Mervyn Kauffman’s article, “In Search of Excellence— Designing a New Library.“
See the full article on Architectural Record 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.