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BUILDING PROJECTS


STAVROS NIARCHOS FOUNDATION LIBRARY NEW YORK CITY


Opening a new volume in NYC


A renovation project on 5th Avenue opens up a public library facility and resolves the functional anomalies of a former department store to provide high quality spaces for all users. James Parker reports on a fruitful collaboration between two leading practices


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n 5th Avenue, sitting adjacent to the famous Beaux-Arts Stephen A Schwarzman Building, the main


research library of the New York Public Library, is a more modest, but important part of the overall network.


ADF DECEMBER 2021


What was once a deep-planned department store, then the Mid-Manhattan Library, has now been reimagined as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), by a partnership of Mecanoo and New York firm Beyer Blinder Belle. The


WIZARD’S HAT The aluminium ‘Wizard’s Hat’ that crowns the building combines some interesting geometry with a subtle reference to nearby Beaux-Arts structures


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