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.
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.
“Over the last several decades, the transition from concept to construction documents to built form has been subject to significant evolution at the hands of the digital revolution. In Digital Workflows in Architecture, Scott Marble aims at sparking the dialogue with one question: How far have we come?”
Full article here.