Academic learning centers for student athletes in general is an evolving building type, the main challenge in this building was composing a program which focused on the “life and challenges” of a student…

The most unexpected challenge in designing the Campus Commons at the State University of New York was the importance that social learning would play in the development and configuration…

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…

Libraries are inherently tied to the transformation of informational systems which are changing at an exponential pace. From its earliest…

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…