Glen Oaks Library is Building of the Year 2013!

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.