Architects
Location
Nueva York, United States of AmericaProyect Year
2013Photography
Courtesy of TEN Arquitectos
Architect in Charge
Enrique Norten
In a neighborhood of high-end retail and luxury residences, this new branch library will fulfill a much needed role as a public space and touchstone for the local community and visiting tourists across from the Museum of Modern Art. Despite the library’s site being predominantly below grade and set at the base of a new 40-story hotel, this design proposal transforms the dark, subterranean space into an inviting, open and light-filled civic landscape in the heart of Manhattan.
