Montréal-based Chevalier Morales Architectes shared with us their finalist proposal along with Busby Perkins + Will for the Nouveau Centre Culturel de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Competition. See more images and architect’s description after the break.
The one dimensional quality which has traditionally characterized libraries, in which they were conceived as places for storing and reading books has evolved. Contemporary libraries are serving a more complex role in our communities. The functional program which defines the Centre Culturel de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce acknowledges this in a formal manner, in which the ‘library’ is considered to be a part of a place which offers a home to many layers of culture. Some of these layers are ‘loud’ and social in nature and very different from the quiet introspective spaces provided in traditional libraries
