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Winners of the 2021 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards

By Josh Niland|

Monday, May 17, 2021

Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library Renovation in Boston, MA by Utile, Inc. Photo: Anton Grassl Photography.

The American Institute of Architects, in conjunction with the American Library Association, recently revealed the five winners of this year's Library Building Awards.

Led by the new Valente Library in Cambridge, the quintet of honorees highlights a mix of both new building and renovation characterized by an incorporation of social practice that has dominated library building in recent years.

Valente Library in Cambridge, MA by William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc. Photo: Robert Benson Photography.

The William Rawn Associates-designed building opened in 2019 and features a bocce court and inviting glazed facade that anchors a crescent-shaped plaza in the heart of the city’s diverse Inman Square neighborhood. Its focus as a community center that provides on-site conference rooms, strong Wi-Fi, and expanded shelf space is made possible thanks to the new 10,000-square-foot branch, which is nearly twice the size of its predecessor. 

Arizona State Library Hayden Library Reinvention in Tempe, AZ by Ayers Saint Gross. Photo: Gabe Border.

Another Boston-area project is the 2020 renovation of the BPL’s Roxbury Branch location, previously occupied by a brutalist structure built in 1978 by local firm Kallmann and McKinnell, one of the firms that helped design Boston’s polarizing City Hall. 

Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library Renovation in Boston, MA by Utile, Inc. Photo: Anton Grassl Photography.

With a price tag of $14.7 Million, the new library reimagines the space as an accessible and engaging civic-oriented structure thanks in part to a 2013 programming study that guided Utile’s vision for the library, ultimately yielding a glass curtain wall, open staircase, and an improved signage and front entrance in step with Roxbury’s renamed Nubian Square neighborhood. 

Sunset Park Library in Brooklyn, NY by Leroy Street Studio Architecture. Photo: Halkin/Mason Photography.

Other winners of this year’s award include a “reinvention” of Arizona State’s original 1966 Hayden Library by Ayers Saint Gross, a mixed-use development in Chicago’s Little Italy neighborhood that brought together the city’s Housing Authority and Public Library entities for the first time with the help of SOM, and a new temporary home for the Sunset Park branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, which commissioned a Leroy Street Studio-led refurbishment of an unused courthouse building from 1931 to further aid in the progressive revitalization of the neighborhood plagued recently by gentrification and pandemic-related social issues. 

Taylor Street Apartments and Little Italy Branch Library in Chicago, IL by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Photo: Tom Harris.

Each building has to demonstrate a sense of “place, purpose, ecology, environmental sustainability, and of history,” according to the AIA website. 

The six-member jury panel will meet again next year to name winners of the competition’s fifth edition. 

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Winners of the 2021 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards

By Josh Niland|

Monday, May 17, 2021

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Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library Renovation in Boston, MA by Utile, Inc. Photo: Anton Grassl Photography.

Related

aia ● library ● competition ● public library ● ala ● usa ● award
The American Institute of Architects
The American Institute of Architects
William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.
William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.
Utile, Inc.
Utile, Inc.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) Hiring!
Leroy Street Studio
Leroy Street Studio Hiring!

The American Institute of Architects, in conjunction with the American Library Association, recently revealed the five winners of this year's Library Building Awards.

Led by the new Valente Library in Cambridge, the quintet of honorees highlights a mix of both new building and renovation characterized by an incorporation of social practice that has dominated library building in recent years.

Valente Library in Cambridge, MA by William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc. Photo: Robert Benson Photography.

The William Rawn Associates-designed building opened in 2019 and features a bocce court and inviting glazed facade that anchors a crescent-shaped plaza in the heart of the city’s diverse Inman Square neighborhood. Its focus as a community center that provides on-site conference rooms, strong Wi-Fi, and expanded shelf space is made possible thanks to the new 10,000-square-foot branch, which is nearly twice the size of its predecessor. 

Arizona State Library Hayden Library Reinvention in Tempe, AZ by Ayers Saint Gross. Photo: Gabe Border.

Another Boston-area project is the 2020 renovation of the BPL’s Roxbury Branch location, previously occupied by a brutalist structure built in 1978 by local firm Kallmann and McKinnell, one of the firms that helped design Boston’s polarizing City Hall. 

Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library Renovation in Boston, MA by Utile, Inc. Photo: Anton Grassl Photography.

With a price tag of $14.7 Million, the new library reimagines the space as an accessible and engaging civic-oriented structure thanks in part to a 2013 programming study that guided Utile’s vision for the library, ultimately yielding a glass curtain wall, open staircase, and an improved signage and front entrance in step with Roxbury’s renamed Nubian Square neighborhood. 

Sunset Park Library in Brooklyn, NY by Leroy Street Studio Architecture. Photo: Halkin/Mason Photography.

Other winners of this year’s award include a “reinvention” of Arizona State’s original 1966 Hayden Library by Ayers Saint Gross, a mixed-use development in Chicago’s Little Italy neighborhood that brought together the city’s Housing Authority and Public Library entities for the first time with the help of SOM, and a new temporary home for the Sunset Park branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, which commissioned a Leroy Street Studio-led refurbishment of an unused courthouse building from 1931 to further aid in the progressive revitalization of the neighborhood plagued recently by gentrification and pandemic-related social issues. 

Taylor Street Apartments and Little Italy Branch Library in Chicago, IL by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Photo: Tom Harris.

Each building has to demonstrate a sense of “place, purpose, ecology, environmental sustainability, and of history,” according to the AIA website. 

The six-member jury panel will meet again next year to name winners of the competition’s fifth edition. 

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