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Architects: OPN Architects
- Area: 94000 m²
- Year: 2013
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Photographs:Main Street Studio - Wayne Johnson
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Manufacturers: Saint-Gobain, Lightblocks, Metal Design Systems, Shaw, Weyerhaeuser
Text description provided by the architects. In June 2008 a flood swept through Cedar Rapids, Iowa filling the city’s downtown central library with eight feet of water. In the wake of this natural disaster, the city rallied to build a new central library that would be a dynamic center of the city’s urban core, embrace the transformational shifts of 21st Century technology and minimize the building’s environmental impact and long-term operational costs.
