Hunters Point Library, New York

About

On the banks of the East River, a branch of the Queens Public Library addresses a call for community space in an almost exclusively residential neighborhood. The building, low and compact, takes up little ground, and makes the much used riverside park a part of it by opening out to the scenery through huge windows ‘punctured’ on the loadbearing concrete facade. The cut-outs on the facade are determined by the building’s section, terraced around a central void, which organizes the various programs by levels and alternates the library’s different areas with meeting spaces.

Sources

• Arquitectura Viva