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.
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.
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.
Glen Oaks Library is featured on American Architects 50×50—50 States in 50 Weeks—as the building of the week representing the state of New York. See the full article here.