The Center for Active Design (CfAD) recently published Assembly: Civic Design Guidelines, an inspiring, practical tool that serves as a call to action for designing and maintaining great public spaces for all. We are thrilled Glen Oaks Branch Library, Queens Library is featured as a case study for design that addresses the needs of the surrounding community and serves as an epicenter of cultural exchange. Download a free copy of the full publication from CfAD’s website.
Our friends at the Center for an Urban Future recently published an Op-Ed in the New York Times; referencing our work together researching New York City’s public libraries.
Learn more about how the Center’s current research and our Re-envisioning Branch Libraries study aim to strengthen the city’s public libraries here.
We were thrilled to hear that SCAPE, our landscape architect for the Glen Oaks Branch Library, has won a Merit Award for the library’s public plaza. The American Society of Landscape Architects awarded SCAPE for the porous public plaza that catches, stores, and recycles rainwater. Congrats!
Glen Oaks Branch Library has received The American Architecture Award 2014, presented by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design as well as The European Centre Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. This is Marble Fairbank’s fifth American Architecture Award.
An exhibition of the 2014 American Architecture Awards will be featured at The Istanbul Design Biennial in Turkey from November 1 – December 14, 2014. Additionally, Glen Oaks will be featured as part of a traveling exhibition, “The City and the World Exhibition,” on display at Contemporary Space Athens in Greece, Spring 2015 and at The Chicago Architectural Biennial, September 2015.
Stay tuned for more details regarding these exhibitions!
Glen Oaks Branch Library was recently featured in “Branching Out,” by Richard Staub in AIA New York’s Fall 2014 issue of Oculus.