Architectural photography illustrates buildings and brings them to people who will never see them first hand. At it’s most simple it is a transportation company for buildings…
Convincing a client who had worked out of a split level two story library for forty years that we could make a six story solution easy to operate and navigate was one of…
In public sector work, it is often difficult to address the needs of a wide range of stakeholders. Doing so within a limited budget adds another layer of complexity. The residents…
Required by the building owners was only the simple and unemotional claim of a book storage instead of an experience of space which the working and undisturbed learning in an inspiring…
The design of Agave Library was shaped by a challenged site and a challenged budget. The site was left-over parcel between a strip retail development and a single…
It takes a long time to prepare for a building like this. In the case of the Safe Haven Library we had to get to know the kids living in the orphanage, the local traditions of building…
Our design concept for the Chongqing Library competition was predicated on the notion that the sharing of knowledge and ideas are to be free and transparent. We also believed that this building…
Libraries are one of the most rapidly changing building types largely due to the changing formats of technology. Despite the fact that most information is available remotely via the internet…
There were no real unexpected challenges but there were significant challenges. The schedule was of course a significant challenge. 28 months from design to opening means…
