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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA’S LIBRARY SYSTEM, LOS ANGELES JOHNSON FAVARO
Johnson Favaro has been commissioned to redesign a comprehensive library master plan for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), to be completed in 2019. The masterplan will include seven out of the 10 libraries located across UCLA’s Westwood, CA campus. Responding to the concept of the “21st century library”, the university has engaged Johnson Favaro to “explore ways to accommodate the impacts of the digital revolution and to better serve each library’s constituents now and into the future”. Encompassing a total of 510,000 ft2
, the masterplan will draw upon an evaluation of system-wide
requirements as well as needs specific to each library. It will focus on existing and future spaces for library users, staff, and collections, as well as spaces that foster user engagement including: learning commons, classrooms, study space, collaborative work areas, food service and wellness space.
VERTICAL VILLAGE, MANHATTAN MVRDV
MVRDV has broken ground on Radio Tower & Hotel, a 21,800 m2
mixed-use high rise in
central library for Helsinki described as “the nation’s birthday gift to its citizens,” has been designed by Finnish architecture firm ALA Architects, led by Juho Grönholm, Antti Nousjoki and Samuli Woolston. The design for Oodi was chosen following an anonymous international competition that attracted 544 entries. The architects’ winning design occupies what’s been described as “a hugely significant unoccupied site,” one of the last remaining in Central Helsinki. The swooping structure of the library, clad in planks of Finnish spruce timber, seeks to extend the public space of the civic square into the enclosed public space of the library. A covered canopy has been created that blurs the boundary between the two as well as a balcony that allows library visitors to look across the square onto the national parliament building.
OODI CENTRAL LIBRARY, FINLAND ALA ARCHITECTS A new 17,250 m2
Northern Manhattan. The 22-storey building combines hotel, retail, and office functions in vibrantly stacked blocks, “reflecting the vivacious character of the neighbourhood and setting a direction for the future development of the area”. Radio Tower & Hotel takes the typical composition of a small block in Washington Heights, pulls it apart and then reassembles it into an asymmetrical stack of boxes, with openings and roof terraces. These boxes are designed to appear like separate buildings: each is roughly the same size as others in the neighbourhood, and features its own specific window pattern inspired by the nearby buildings. The boxes also take inspiration from the vibrant colours of the shopfronts in the majority Hispanic neighbourhood, with each part of the building being finished in a different colour of ceramic bricks. Combined, the elements of the building’s external appearance form a condensation of the characteristics of Washington Heights’ existing urban fabric.
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